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It's Hives...
Last week, I had to go to the VA and see the doc due to a possible pressure sore in an uncomfortable location. It's bad enough to have your doc look you right in the "eye" but when she is young and VERY attractive, it's even worse. I suggested that she might want another doc in the room, just for the protection of HER reputation. "No Problem," Said She, smiling... (perfect teeth too... ) ... "Before we get that far, I'll have the attending physician come in and be present." SHE was just a resident, which might explain why she looked 16 years old.

She gets all her info, and discusses her conclusion, without having seen the problem (location) yet. Then leaves. She comes back with the attending Physician.. who is also not bad looking. SHE is about 50, but ... They prod and poke and decide it's not a pressure sore, but acknowledge my pain and give me some prescriptions... including an antibiotic. I am allergic to penicillin and quiz the doc on the drug. PCN makes me stop breathing... this could be a problem.

Nope, I'll be fine she says.

A week later, (Yesterday morning... ) I wake up with painful lumps around my single eye in the nether regions. Painful to the touch. Have been there before, following a broken, nearly severed tip on the pinky of my right hand. Same exact symptoms... and the HIVES started in the same area. Within a couple hours they had started to spread. I stopped taking the meds and tossed the last of the pills. I started taking benedryl. It slowed the progress. I was at the VA all day, and they said I was right, once again seeing a female Physician's Assistant. She just jumped right in with a big magnifying glass and got up close and personal.

She gave me topical pain meds, more benedryl, and told me the Hives would eventually go away. "Cowboy Up."
I have plenty I want to be doing, but OMG... this sucks.

Any Grandma's secrets to help me out here?
(Sorry guys, I know posts are better WITH pictures... but trust me... you don't want to see pictures... it's nasty.)

The doc added this antibiotic to the list of drugs I am allergic to.

Get it to run for Congress...It'll disappear and you'll never hear from it again

albin25 wrote:Get it to run for Congress...It'll disappear and you'll never hear from it again

I'd try anything if I thought it would work... congress doesn't.

In my experience, hives have been the result of emotional stress (I got a promotion that involved supervising). Benedryl topical cream helped, and if you're like me, you may have to just wait it out. I had severe hives on my forearms a few times for several weeks at a time. My longtime Dr. (an unattractive male) did not prescribe antibiotics, but did recommend using topical benedryl. The hives eventually faded (all the while kept at bay by the benedryl), but it was a horrible rash for the one or two weeks at a time that I had it (I sympathize). I had a few subsequent outbreaks over the course of several years and it was always been the same treatment that worked. Calm down, apply Benedryl, and wait.

Wow, I have a possible solution. I've never tried it on the best friend, but you can. Pumpkins and butternut squash are an astringent. It sucks the life right out of my hands when I make pumpkin or butternut soup in a large batch. The astringent action may relieve the hives. Remember, I'm not a doctor or a grandmother.

I should take a look at our local VA. Wow. Three stunning female docs. Get a lottery ticket too.

Good luck with a cure. Thanks for not attaching pictures.

I get hives, probably from one my meds. Dermatologist did a biopsy and they are an allergic reaction to something. I take a generic Claritin daily and she gave me a prescription for Fluocinonide .05% which works a whole lot better than any of the OTC ointments I tried for the itching.

The Richmond Va is a teaching hospital, and always filled with eye candy. Physical Therapists.. (Hurt me baby!) Nurses... you gotta watch them.. they like to stab you with sharps.... and residents in every department. Most are as kind as can be, but I have run into a few with attitudes. They forgot they are there for us. Only once have I had to use a Command Voice. It got lots of attention, but the young male doc had been disrespectful to my wife. I used appropriate language, don't get me wrong, just put some gravel and power behind it.

The supervising physician removed him from the room and finished the appointment himself, after apologizing to Miss T. We really do have a pretty good hospital.

Hoppes #9 and a good bore snake.....oops, wrong thread. Sorry.