Hi guys. Thought I'd let you know how I'm doing. I'm the one who posted about a bad case of hives a few weeks ago. Well, the hives are all gone now... although the skin where I had them is now peeling & flaky. I think it still itches occasionally, but only slightly.
The thing that's frustrating is I still can't figure out the cause. I've tried various things I'd been exposed to--foods, shampoo, etc.--but nothing has brought back the hives. Which is both good and bad.
I'm glad not to be tortured w/that itch... but I wish I knew where it had come from! Not even the sun seems to bring it back.
Although I did have a bit of a blotchy redness on my arms the other day, along with a few tiny, rash-like spots--they were red, about 1 mm across, and surrounded by a small white halo. They didn't itch. They were there for a couple hours, then went away.
Anyway... what I wanted to post about is this:
While I was on the Prednisone, I noticed a lot of my pains went away! It was like, one night, I suddenly realized my ribs weren't hurting anymore! And they'd been hurting pretty badly lately. After I stopped taking the meds, all the pains came back again.
So my question is, does this prove that I've got some kind of inflammation going on here? Today I feel just awful... it's like everything is achy and stiff, and the fatigue is pretty bad, too.
I gotta say, I hate the idea of taking Prednisone on a long-term basis... even though my joints felt better, my muscles--especially in my neck--were a lot worse. I was tied in knots! :worried: Also, mentally and emotionally I felt horrible... extremely spacey and aggrivated. So if there IS something inflammatory going on here, I hope there's something else I can take.
I don't know what the deal is, but I do seem to be a lot worse lately.
The thing that's frustrating is I still can't figure out the cause. I've tried various things I'd been exposed to--foods, shampoo, etc.--but nothing has brought back the hives. Which is both good and bad.
I'm glad not to be tortured w/that itch... but I wish I knew where it had come from! Not even the sun seems to bring it back.Although I did have a bit of a blotchy redness on my arms the other day, along with a few tiny, rash-like spots--they were red, about 1 mm across, and surrounded by a small white halo. They didn't itch. They were there for a couple hours, then went away.
Anyway... what I wanted to post about is this:
While I was on the Prednisone, I noticed a lot of my pains went away! It was like, one night, I suddenly realized my ribs weren't hurting anymore! And they'd been hurting pretty badly lately. After I stopped taking the meds, all the pains came back again.
So my question is, does this prove that I've got some kind of inflammation going on here? Today I feel just awful... it's like everything is achy and stiff, and the fatigue is pretty bad, too.
I gotta say, I hate the idea of taking Prednisone on a long-term basis... even though my joints felt better, my muscles--especially in my neck--were a lot worse. I was tied in knots! :worried: Also, mentally and emotionally I felt horrible... extremely spacey and aggrivated. So if there IS something inflammatory going on here, I hope there's something else I can take.
I don't know what the deal is, but I do seem to be a lot worse lately.
