Been having welts since the beginning of May. On my head, sides and bottom of my feet. Just thought I was having a bad allergy season.
The night before last could hardly sleep. Woke up, and I'm like, "darn welts again" at like 3 30. Went to bathroom, had to pee, looked at side and HOLY MOTHER OF PEARL it was like 8 inches long and five inches wide!!!! What the heck?????? Tried to stay upright on the couch to alleviate the itching. Husband got up to go potty. Asked me what I was doing up. I showed him, and he's like, "WHY DIDN'T YOU WAKE ME RIGHT AWAY?!?!?!?!?"
I have a welt that is now about a foot long and 6 inches wide on my side. Went to ed yesterday morning for it. They gave me prednisone, and said if it comes back after I'm off the roids to go to an allergist. Been taking my benadryl - spray and oral - like a good girl today. Took my allegra, also. The swelling seems to not be as red, and to have gone down but it's still bigger than it was this morning. Feels like a great big bruise now and today was actually able to wear a bra which means I got to go to go to work (with GGs you can't exactly run around without proper underwear).
They said there's a chance I've developed an allergy to my depo (my birth control shot, makes it so I don't have a period, I get one every 3 months). Are you fricking kidding me??? I don't want to go back to being anemic, passing out and, having to wear diapers for 10 days out of every month because I'm bleeding so much. The reason I went on depo was because my periods kept getting worse and they said it was probably a safer decision for me to NOT have my period. Rather than drastic surgery, I opted for this. So the dude at the ed said, "well you could just stay pregnant." For the next like 30 years? I wanted to punch him but by that point I was so slap-happy from lack of sleep I just laughed about it. Good thing, I guess.
'Course then I could just be having a bad reaction to something I'm already allergic to that I know of - dust mites, maple trees, grass - or an old allergy could be resurfacing - which could be just about ANYTHING RAR.
I do not plan to be pregnant at all let alone the next 30 or so years, so I need to come up with some other option if it is true that I can't take depo. But I don't want to go through surgery because what if some day one day I wake up and want to have a baby and there's some infintessimal chance I could have one? Some days I wake up so badly wanting a kitten that I have to go buy a houseplant and drown it for a few weeks and then I'm good. What if that happens about a baby need? Would a plant cover that need? My husband had a daughter and I absolutely loved her but she's been gone from this realm for the last 5 years and I couldn't picture ever wanting to have anyone besides her. Maybe it's just grief, maybe it's just my continuing non-working biological clock. Never wanted to have kids but who's to say what the future may bring, and I want to still have the option just in case, but the only way I would go off some form of birth control is if I was POSITIVE I wanted the baby. I've never been more positive than right now that I DO NOT want to have one, but again, who knows what may change in the future? For the last year or so, I just tell everyone I can't have kids. I mean that's basically what it is, if it's not safe enough for me to have my period than I can't stay off the depo. There's too many anomalies for them to think it's safe for me to have children, so basically that means I can't have kids, right? It's not really a lie, just a shorter way of saying what is the truth and less gross because who really wants to hear about how much blood is involved in my montly life if I don't have birth control? Coming completely clean about everything because I don't want anyone to be confused about when I said I can't have kids if they remember me saying that. I can't have kids, because I can't safely go through the cycle in order to get pregnant. Then they're not positive that I wouldn't have a period while I'm pregnant because some people do - my mom did with one or two of us, but she still knew she was pregnant because she had all the other symptoms. So I can't have kids.
Sooooooooooo frustrated. Guess I was just looking for suggestions. I really thought I was getting over this allergy stuff for the first time in like 28 years. I was almost the bubble girl when I was born. I was allergic to everything I ate, touched, or wore. I don't want to go back to that. I like wearing dye in my clothes. I like being able to eat everything but oranges. I thought I just needed to avoid the maple trees and the grass and try and stay inside in the summer and It would all be gravy.
Sorry this is so long, but I'm at my wit's end.
On top of that, landlord "fixed" the roof in the bathroom AGAIN for like the 20th time in 7 years we've lived there and it is leaking AGAIN. Don't really know what to do about that either.
The night before last could hardly sleep. Woke up, and I'm like, "darn welts again" at like 3 30. Went to bathroom, had to pee, looked at side and HOLY MOTHER OF PEARL it was like 8 inches long and five inches wide!!!! What the heck?????? Tried to stay upright on the couch to alleviate the itching. Husband got up to go potty. Asked me what I was doing up. I showed him, and he's like, "WHY DIDN'T YOU WAKE ME RIGHT AWAY?!?!?!?!?"
I have a welt that is now about a foot long and 6 inches wide on my side. Went to ed yesterday morning for it. They gave me prednisone, and said if it comes back after I'm off the roids to go to an allergist. Been taking my benadryl - spray and oral - like a good girl today. Took my allegra, also. The swelling seems to not be as red, and to have gone down but it's still bigger than it was this morning. Feels like a great big bruise now and today was actually able to wear a bra which means I got to go to go to work (with GGs you can't exactly run around without proper underwear).
They said there's a chance I've developed an allergy to my depo (my birth control shot, makes it so I don't have a period, I get one every 3 months). Are you fricking kidding me??? I don't want to go back to being anemic, passing out and, having to wear diapers for 10 days out of every month because I'm bleeding so much. The reason I went on depo was because my periods kept getting worse and they said it was probably a safer decision for me to NOT have my period. Rather than drastic surgery, I opted for this. So the dude at the ed said, "well you could just stay pregnant." For the next like 30 years? I wanted to punch him but by that point I was so slap-happy from lack of sleep I just laughed about it. Good thing, I guess.
'Course then I could just be having a bad reaction to something I'm already allergic to that I know of - dust mites, maple trees, grass - or an old allergy could be resurfacing - which could be just about ANYTHING RAR.
I do not plan to be pregnant at all let alone the next 30 or so years, so I need to come up with some other option if it is true that I can't take depo. But I don't want to go through surgery because what if some day one day I wake up and want to have a baby and there's some infintessimal chance I could have one? Some days I wake up so badly wanting a kitten that I have to go buy a houseplant and drown it for a few weeks and then I'm good. What if that happens about a baby need? Would a plant cover that need? My husband had a daughter and I absolutely loved her but she's been gone from this realm for the last 5 years and I couldn't picture ever wanting to have anyone besides her. Maybe it's just grief, maybe it's just my continuing non-working biological clock. Never wanted to have kids but who's to say what the future may bring, and I want to still have the option just in case, but the only way I would go off some form of birth control is if I was POSITIVE I wanted the baby. I've never been more positive than right now that I DO NOT want to have one, but again, who knows what may change in the future? For the last year or so, I just tell everyone I can't have kids. I mean that's basically what it is, if it's not safe enough for me to have my period than I can't stay off the depo. There's too many anomalies for them to think it's safe for me to have children, so basically that means I can't have kids, right? It's not really a lie, just a shorter way of saying what is the truth and less gross because who really wants to hear about how much blood is involved in my montly life if I don't have birth control? Coming completely clean about everything because I don't want anyone to be confused about when I said I can't have kids if they remember me saying that. I can't have kids, because I can't safely go through the cycle in order to get pregnant. Then they're not positive that I wouldn't have a period while I'm pregnant because some people do - my mom did with one or two of us, but she still knew she was pregnant because she had all the other symptoms. So I can't have kids.
Sooooooooooo frustrated. Guess I was just looking for suggestions. I really thought I was getting over this allergy stuff for the first time in like 28 years. I was almost the bubble girl when I was born. I was allergic to everything I ate, touched, or wore. I don't want to go back to that. I like wearing dye in my clothes. I like being able to eat everything but oranges. I thought I just needed to avoid the maple trees and the grass and try and stay inside in the summer and It would all be gravy.
Sorry this is so long, but I'm at my wit's end.
On top of that, landlord "fixed" the roof in the bathroom AGAIN for like the 20th time in 7 years we've lived there and it is leaking AGAIN. Don't really know what to do about that either.