Before going to the Dentist this morning I had a frightening thing happen:
Because I have so much metal in my body I have to take two doses of antibiotic an hour before my appointment. I took 2 doses around 6 am this morning and jumped in the bath. I began itching and could see and feel my body swelling up. My lips swelled and my heart started racing. I got out of the bath and looked in the mirror an saw an aweful sight: my whole body had welts on it, my lips were gigantic, and my whole face was red - even what was supposed to be the whites of my eyes.
I called my Mom to come and get me to take me to the hospital. My Mom called my two sisters, and my sister called 911. 6 medics came in and each took vital signs while one was prepping me for a benedryl shot. It scared me to death, but Mom took me on to the Dentist and I slept through getting a tooth prepped for a crown
I had a very exciting day. This is the first time I ever had an allergic reation to a drug...anyone else have a story to tell?
Blessings, Rhoni
Thankfully I've never had the swelling and welts, but I did have two allergic reactions... the first being itching skin and the second severe pain in my abdomen both from a Penicillin allergy. The first reaction wasn't severe.. the second was.
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I had an allergic reaction similar to yours last year. Within twenty minutes of taking a new prescription, my skin itched and then burned like I had never experienced in my life. I was so desperate I threw cold water on my body to stop the burning when I finally took three benadryl. I was about to call an ambulance when the benadryl starting kicking in, which I was very thankful for the relief.
Be sure to talk to your MD about your allergic reaction as soon as you can. Glad to hear that you made it through that experience OK...
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Me too. I used to LOVE them, but no more! First my tongue would start tingling and itching, and my lips would go numb. Then it would do that plus I would get sick at my stomach and often have a violent headache and hives.
The last time I had a reaction was after I ate at a Chinese restaurant. Within a few blocks of the restaurant my right eye started itching like mad and the white area swelled like a blister. It was aweful. I stopped at a Target and asked their pharmacist for help. Needless to say I've not eaten shrimp since.
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When I was 16 I was at my best friends house. She lived in Wylie in the sticks and we lived in Garl... about 12 min away. Well we had gone swimming she had one of those huge above ground pools. We had forgotten to get towels so I ran back in the house and as I was standing there fixing to get back in the pool I noticed my leg started to itch.. But I scratched it once without looking and stood there and continued to talk to her... Looked down about 2 min later and I was literally covered on both legs with fire ants. I jumped in the pool thinking it would get them off of me. WRONG!!! It just made them go up higher onto my leg... So finally me and her got them all off.. but by then both of my feet were the size of cantelopes.
I called my dad and asked him to meet me and take me to the ER.. He couldnt find my friends house if someone paid him to it was so far out in the country. So he drove to the nearest town to her and met me there.. by the time he got there my face was doing as Rhonda described hers.. and my entire legs were so swollen I couldnt walk. He called 911 from the gas station we met at and they came and said if it had been more than 5 more min I would have died...
On one leg they counted over 200 fire ant bites and quit counting there! I had to carry around injection meds for years after that.. I guess I have gotten past it however as last year I got bit by a few and I am still here! LOL
Was indeed the scariest thing I had ever been through!
The first time we gave Keith a Reese's Peanut Butter cup he was just under 2 years old. He immediately starting gasping for air and sounding like he was having a VERY severe asthma attack. We did a ventolin treatment but then just watched him. When I called the doc the next day he informed me that Keith had had a classic allergic reaction and that he should NEVER have peanuts again.
The next time he had peanuts he was given a peanut butter cookie at VBS. He spit it out and said it was "Acky". My friend brought him immediately home to us because she knew of his allergy. By the time she got to our house (4 blocks away) he was already gasping for air. I did a shot of Epinephrine, then called the Rescue Squad and Walt (who was at the Fire Station where the REscue Squad is based). They got here in record time, did another Epi shot, loaded him up and headed to the hospital. On the way, they did another shot of Epi and when we got to the ER, they immediately did yet another shot of Epi. That's FOUR shots! Then they gave him Benadryl in the IV and Ventolin treatments every 10 minutes. 7 hours later, they finally determined that he was out of the woods and would live.
Their advice again was NEVER EVER EVER let him near peanuts again. So far, we've done ok with that. But we are diligent about it, believe me!!!
Is that all shellfish. I have heard of that as well as allergies to almonds. How did you find out you were allergic?
About ten years ago, I sat down to eat at a Red Lobster, and just as I had many, many times before I ordered breaded shrimp.
I took one bite and it felt like my mouth was on fire. I thought maybe they had put some hot sauce on it or something. But it wasn't long (minute or two)until I broke out in hives and my tongue became swollen.
I started sweating profusely. My eyes turned Japanese red and my tear ducts opened up like a flash flood. Eventually my lower lids became so heavy they turned inside out.
It was hard to breathe.
At the emergency room my doctor told me I had developed an allergy to shrimp. He said that my metabolism or something had changed, and that I shouldn't eat it anymore. Duh! lol
No problem, I stopped eating it.
It never bothered me to be around it until last year. My son had ordered crab legs. He was struggling to crack them open so I didn't think anything of reaching over and helping him.
First my tongue would start tingling and itching, and my lips would go numb. Then it would do that plus I would get sick at my stomach and often have a violent headache and hives.
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