Topic: Scared, had to take steroids, need emotional support
Judie
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I'm scared and freaked out. Needing some emotional support.
I just started an oral steroid. I've had bad hives over the past month and they started getting worse (all over my neck and chest). I saw my doc yesterday and he wrote me a script for prednisone.
Even my feet are swollen and I'm having trouble wearing shoes.
I tried allergy pills and they cut down on the itchiness, but this morning the hives were just in bloom.
I'm so scared of mood swings and all the other crap that comes from steroids, plus Lyme coming back. I can't live with these hives anymore
I tried allergy pills and they cut down on the itchiness, but this morning the hives were just in bloom.
I'm so scared of mood swings and all the other crap that comes from steroids, plus Lyme coming back. I can't live with these hives anymore.
None of my normal, natural remedies are even touching this.
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Sorry you're going throught this, Judie. Have you tried ranitidine (Zantac)? It cleared hives really well for me where prednisone and allergy meds did nothing.
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Judie
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No, that's new to me. The benadryl and allegra made the itching stop, but the hives remained, so started the steroids.
I feel like I'm buzzing like a hummingbird on the prednisone.
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MichaelTampa
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One thing I read recently was that itchiness in some cases comes from EBV. Just an idea to consider, if there is something you might do to treat or consider treating EBV, homeopathic or otherwise.
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I never took steroids for my hives and eczema, TC.
Some people become intolerant of salicylates, for whatever reason. I think my sensitivity to them has been there all my life and when I UPPED those foods (juicing, etc) .. then my body went haywire.
Now I can barely touch those foods and anything made from plants. It happens. We have 3,000 people in our group .. all having the same problems.
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Judie
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I have a horrible time with plants. I stopped my Chinese medicine herbs, they weren't helping at all the last month.
I'm allergic to all the plant debris around my house. The mold has been awful. I'm trying to move, but it's hard.
I was on my couch and watched as hives popped up the other day on my arm.
I'm allergic to Zyrtec. Not sure how to get cromolyn. I had a bad reaction to nasalcrom
I also have EBV.
This won't improve till I move, but I'm stuck here for now. It sucks. Just trying to manage all this till I can get out of here.
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