Make up your damn mind

[ralerin]

Aloe vera gel. Currently applying it to a fungal infection and it itched for several hours but it's helping since I itch much less.

[Micer]

Well, can't say its been an improvement, because seriously, it hasn't been. On my second refill of the medication, it burns when I put it on, the itching isn't stopping, and I just finished crying my eyes out because of the pain of putting it on. And now, new symptom, I have small blisters/small hives (they're not red) popping up on the palms of my hands and the sides of my feet and crawling up my fingers.

All the clothes are cleaned in the hypoallergenic detergent, using glycerine soap, no scrubbies in fear that hubby might be putting his soap on it and that its irritating things,the tea tree oil works off and on, and all I can think of doing now is hiding in our bedroom, naked and never sitting or laying down again.

I'm in hell. Going back to the doctor, asking to be put back on steroid pills since that seemed to be the only thing the hives responded to, and asking if I should go see an allergist, though the folks I've talked to have made it sound like that even if it's a reaction to the tape they used on my C-section, or the epidural, I might never know because my body is just in a never ending I hate myself loop and I just gotta ride it out til it can figure out how to calm down. All I know is I'd like to spend a day where I'm not ripping myself ragged and not leaving my clothes to soak to get the blood out. -_-

Also, on my third day of taking Claritin with no real response in the itching.

[scruff]

[QUOTE=Micer;973147] Can't really do the naked with the windows open either, apartment complex and very sure the neighbors would be a little upset. /[QUOTE]

thick net curtains. lets the light in but protects your modesty.

[Micer]

Thanks for the list, I'll check some of those suggestions out, just restocked my tea tree oil, though as much as I would like to lay in the sun, I can't, I burn way too fast and last time I tried and got a mild one even with the sunscreen (when I thought it was scabies) it aggravated the itching beyond belief.

Ran out of my prescription yesterday and had to wait on the refill until today, last night was hell, did try the clothes with the hypoallergenic detergent (never been a softener user, just started recently to throw borax into the wash), seemed to work a little bit since the only part that was super itchy last night was the palms of my hands, and my ankles, could ignore the itching on my legs. Can't really do the naked with the windows open either, apartment complex and very sure the neighbors would be a little upset. >_> But think I will continue doing the pantless/wearing my pool wraps as a skirt routine.

[zzapp the witch]

Was gonna type out a big long list of stuff you can do, first and foremost being to take apple cider vinegar baths, and moisturize with tea tree oil mixed with sunflower oil, but I found this: http://www.optiderma.com/en/skin-dis...-remedies.html

Going to a tanning bed for some light treatment helps, or lay in the sun. I went over my diet, like that site says to, and the suggestion was made by my grandmother to drink one beer a day (which I didn't do, I hate beer and I was breastfeeding, my OB said it would be ok to drink one right after I fed the baby cause I would metabolize it all, but that it would make my milk taste funny to the baby). My grandma SWORE by the whole beer thing to get rid of pregnancy hives. You'd just have to time it well, like for when the baby slept the longest during the course of the day.

Oh, and walking around the house naked, air-drying, with the windows open feels AWESOME.

Also, stop using liquid softener if you use any.

[Primer]

The only 2 things that ever helped me with itching are Benadryl (I take generic OTC) and hydroxizine, which is Rx. I have guttate psoriasis (looks like polka-dots) which thankfully has been in remission for about 10 years. But after the past 5 months, I'll be really surprised if I don't have a major outbreak before the first of the year. Stress is a really BAD trigger.

[wheeitsme]

Huh. That kind of itchy break-out is how I found out I had become allergic to sulfa drugs.

[Micer]

Have you been checked for a fungel infection?

And no, though I do find it kinda amusing that one of the few things that curbs my itching is tea tree oil (we're using it for kiddo's mild case cradle cap)

[Micer]

Update: They hemmed, hawed, tsked over my back, gave me a pat (literally, got a pat on the shoulder), noticed my blood pressure was extremely high, looked back at the biopsy results and they switched it from being eczema to some form of psoriasis. So off the cream (not that I had any left) and now on a clobetasol prop foam twice daily. Keep your fingers crossed!

Also thankfully they gave the go ahead on halving my dose of doxepin - was having some very disturbing dreams from it.

[pitmonkey]

Have you been checked for a fungel infection?

[rose_metal_nz]

First; congrats on bubs
Secondly - don't know if it's helpful, but I got what sounds like the exact same reaction from an antibiotic; seemed like an external thing (I get allergies/dermatitis too) from the symptoms, but it was the antibiotics they'd put me on for the kidney infection I'd had. They gave me a shot of something & it went away
*Note: I'd had it for days/weeks at that point
Hope this helps at all...

[Micer]

I know the permethrin cream can cause an allergic reaction (I mean, hell, it's a friggen pesticide) but I have no idea if it could be causing this reaction or if it is eczema, suppose it's another thing to bring up tomorrow.

[scruff]

Hmm. I suggest double-checking the small-print on the medicine, I had suspected scabies years ago (turned out it wasn't, but it never got properly diagnosed), and found the medicine prescribed made things worse. Turned out, when I re-read the info leaflet with the medicine, that it was possible to be allergic to it, with symptoms including itching and rashes. (everything sorted itself out after a few days, fortunatly.)

[AccountingDrone]

Nope, everything on my arms and legs is dry - as in no oozing/weeping, certainly bleeding when I scratch too hard, but the only one I had with weeping was one that looked like a little blister on the side of my hand, all the other hives/bumps on me that've popped up stayed dry. I was using witch hazel for a while when I thought it was scabies, perhaps that dried it out and prevented any and all oozing? Otherwise all the new stuff is still dry red bumps and raised splotches.

Hm.

I know that since my hysterectomy I suffer serious dry skin, keratosis pilaris Could it possibly be something like this, just aggravated on top of the regular bumps? [I do an olive oil salt scrub every couple of weeks, it seems to help.]

Try an olive oil salt scrub gently? Might be comforting at least, and nothing chemically harsh to do damage.

[Micer]

Nope, everything on my arms and legs is dry - as in no oozing/weeping, certainly bleeding when I scratch too hard, but the only one I had with weeping was one that looked like a little blister on the side of my hand, all the other hives/bumps on me that've popped up stayed dry. I was using witch hazel for a while when I thought it was scabies, perhaps that dried it out and prevented any and all oozing? Otherwise all the new stuff is still dry red bumps and raised splotches.