For over 3 months now, I have broke out into hives! I wake up every night, itchi!
Question: If you are going to reply, please read all of this-details are important. So basically, I have been waking up at night itching so bad that I almost go crazy scratching. It's mainly the top of my feet, my legs, and sometimes the top of my hands. I take benadryl, triamcinolone, showers, & nothing is working. It is seriously driving me crazy. It only happens at night. First, I start to itch and then little tiny bumps the same color of my skin appear and they are evil-they itch SO bad that i scratch until i bleed. I thought it was from changing to a different laundry detergent (all that was 4x concentrated) so I stopped using it long ago. I even bought a whole new bed set!!! I am so desperate to find what is causing this. I have never had any allergy problems. If anyone knows what this is or has any tips on what I can do to relieve the itching PLEASE help. It's Friday 3:30am and I plan on making a DR appointment asap because i can't take this anymore...but help through the weekend...
Answers: If you are going to reply, please read all of this-details are important. So basically, I have been waking up at night itching so bad that I almost go crazy scratching. It's mainly the top of my feet, my legs, and sometimes the top of my hands. I take benadryl, triamcinolone, showers, & nothing is working. It is seriously driving me crazy. It only happens at night. First, I start to itch and then little tiny bumps the same color of my skin appear and they are evil-they itch SO bad that i scratch until i bleed. I thought it was from changing to a different laundry detergent (all that was 4x concentrated) so I stopped using it long ago. I even bought a whole new bed set!!! I am so desperate to find what is causing this. I have never had any allergy problems. If anyone knows what this is or has any tips on what I can do to relieve the itching PLEASE help. It's Friday 3:30am and I plan on making a DR appointment asap because i can't take this anymore...but help through the weekend...
You said you take showers but do you take cold or hot showers? Hot showers will just make you itch worse. You can try calcimine lotion to help with the itch. You can also use Zyrtec for hives. Also remember that you can get hives from stress also not just allergies. So if you are to stressed out that could be the problem.
If the itching occurs mainly on your feet, legs then maybe you're place is infected by fleas. If there are alot of stray cats in your area, it's possible that they are spreading fleas
Take some antihistamine tablets from the pharmacy or doctor.
Allergies come and, allergies go, that's the gist of it I'm afraid to say. I started getting allergic reaction like you but, I have a medical degree and knew what it was, only that I started at 70 years old, believe that, both my daughter and her daughters have them.
I broke out with so many allergies that I had to have the blood test to show what I was allergic to.
At the time, I was so bad, in the doctors office, I was given a steroid injection and sample to take home for immediate use until the tests came in. The shot worked right now and the samples lasted until I could be put on a medication.
This is something that you can look into, start checking into what you do, you eat, washing, the linens. If it's "bed bugs" or "Dust mites" roaches biting at night" you have to address everything. Even body lice and ring worm (A flora like yeast infection to thrush. All things have to be addressed.
Wash your linens every three days, vacuum the mattress every three days also, flipping it, making sure you get the seams good. The carpets, fleas from an animal, even if you go through he grass where a neighbors dog goes, if it has fleas. They will bite between the ankles and the knees and, on the hands if your in the grass, carpet.
it could be your allergic to the type of fabric your sheets are made out of. it could also be bugs of some sort but i would see a doctor.