Monday, March 4, 2013

I Am Not A Bee

Monday madness. That's what the end of the weekend brings. How was your weekend? Mine was uneventful except, well, let me just tell the story. 

I woke up early Saturday morning because my 14 year old beast dog, Mille needed to go outside. She apparently has no sense of time because this is a frequent occurrence that she needs to crap at 3 am. You really have no choice but to get up if not she will bark and bark or she will just crap on the floor. I mean it sucks being ninety eight. 

I walked back to bed and began to itch. I thought maybe it was just dry skin. This winter has been a bitcharoo on my skin. So, of course I scratch. I finally go back to sleep and I wake up in the morning about 7 am and make coffee and clean up the kitchen a bit. I noticed my butt was itching and then my the sides of my torso, my ears and then the back of my neck. I chalked it up to a night sweat and needed a shower because people in their forties sometimes do this or it could have been that the temp in the house was 75. What can I say I was freezing my baguettes off. A couple of hours later I draw water to wash a few dishes. I start doing the woman duties and I noticed my hands were bright red. The water was hot but no different than usual. Then it hit, the itch on my hands almost drove me insane. The palms of my hands were bright red, blotchy and starting to swell. 

So I go to my trusty iPad and look up "red itchy palms" and it pops up, Hives. Say what? Hives! What the heck is that? I read further and then look at pictures. And low and behold it has to be hives. I got the hives. Like I had leprosy or something. As soon as I figured out that's what it was it was almost like a bug crawling all over you, I started to itch all over. Even my knee caps itched. I took a benedryl and it started to get better. But my hands still itched even between my fingers. Where or how did I get hives? I still haven't figured it out. It is either the laundry detergent which I have almost narrowed it down to that since I was folding clothes and my hands started to swell and get itchy blotchy again or it could be an antibiotic I was taking. I have no idea. All I know is I have been scratching like a flea infested hound dog and apparently the hot water makes it worse. I am almost to the point of asking someone to lift my hair and spread that flea guard liquid on my neck and down to my butt like you do an animal. 

I am going to give it about hmmm, another day and then its off to the doctor I go. Thank goodness it hasn't spread to my face nor have I had trouble breathing but I would pay a person $1000 dollars to use a wire brush to scratch my body. I can only pop so many pink pills because it knocks me out. And believe me, I am not producing honey from these hives. So, we will see. Here's hoping it goes away quickly. I don't want people to think I have the mange with all the scratching. Anyone else had these and can tell me a remedy..like quick?

Happy Monday,
Dusty

20 comments:

  1. i would be really cranky if i had to get out at 3am. bah.

    i think i had a hives too!
    i got this itchy-bitchy red thing on my hands, legs, arms everywhere too a few weeks ago. sucker. i had to take antibiotics for that. i hope you're going well soon.

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  2. Yikes! I hope your hives go away soon...or start producing honey...because then they might be worth keeping.

    xo

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  3. I get them all the flipping time. It could be from the detergent or even nerves. The best thing to do is figure out what is causing the reaction and get it away from you, quit eating it, etc. They suck. I find a benedryl/valium cocktail does the best trick, once you figure out what is causing it (if you can, sometimes I can't, so I just get naked and starve), but you better get your bed or your coffee ready.

    And a 3 am crap/walk? That's why I have cats I guess, they can just show their own asses to the box. If I had to get up, they would just deuce the floor.

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  4. As a very allergic person, I say slather yourself in hydrocortisone cream until you figure it out. I became allergic to our laundry detergent last year too. It was super fun. Not.

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  5. I got itchy reading this. I've gotten hives a couple times. Once when I discovered I was allergic to ibuprofen. That shit is not fun.

    Also googling anything skin related is THE WORST. You see all kinds of nasty pictures you didn't want to see.

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  6. I've only gotten hives a couple times, but it's usually just in one spot. sounds like you're REALLY allergic to something.

    bennadryl always worked for me. I don't even know what else... Sorry, I'm no help.

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  7. oh honey, no fun. Tristen gets hives something awful. EXCITEMENT can trigger them, of all things. He's really allergic to grass and certain laundry detergent too. Cold showers and benadryl is how we get through them. We have gotten a prescription in the past, if yours don't go away, go get one!

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  8. Hmmm, i wonder if something bit you. Did you actually go outside with your dog too?
    Hope you feel better sunshine!!! Hugs

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  9. Oh no. Hives are the worst, I know baking soda and watch help with itch

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  10. Hmmm you may have been bit by something and just not felt it. I can't imagine the hives are comfortable.

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  11. EWw that sucks bad! I hope you find relief soon! I would be using a wire brush on myself! I can't stand to have dry skin much less hives! Good luck!

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  12. Straight up hell!!! I have had them from an allergic reaction to medicine. The only thing that helped was the pink pills. Now you have me itching....thanks!!! Def go to the doctor if it doesn't get better! :(

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  13. OMG! I had this in Jan. and into Feb. and it was AWFUL! I tried OTC stuff and nothing worked. The more you scratch the worse it gets - something about the histamines in your skin. I had an allergic reaction to something and had to get prednisone. That combined with Zytec made it go away but it was slow going away. Sorry you have this because it's a real pain! And it made me feel like something was wrong with me. :-)

    Jayme @ Her Late Night Cravings

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  14. ok so weird. i just had this happen to me a couple weks ago. it went away in about a day. but it was AWFUL

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  15. Soak in epsom salt. Lather yourself in caladryl gel. And go to the doctor to get some steroids to make them go away! Cortisone cream works okay but it is so think and greasey. Ibuprofen for the inflammation. D, I am queen b of skin rash situations. I feel for you.

    I am so itchy now. I hope you start feeling better soon.

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  16. Oh my word... I hope you're feeling ok. I couldn't help but start scratching reading this post. Fill me in on the hives... my sister broke out in hives and it happened several times. She went to the doctor and they told her she might have an auto immune issue or something. Hang in there.

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  17. My friend gets the same way from most laundry detergents. She recently almost went into anaphylactic shock from a hut-trip with friends. So sorry you're going through this, feel better ASAP!

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  18. So you've got cooties?!?

    My butt doesn't itch and I'm in my 40s.....maybe I'm unique though huh?!?

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  19. I vote antibiotic. I was on one once and spent too much time in the sun...my legs practically had welts on them. It sucked. Benedryl is your friend. Good luck!

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  20. I've never had hives. That sounds awful!

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