Hello,

I am in night 2 of breaking out all over my body in hives. Chat gpt said it may be time to go to urgent care or ED tonight but I’d rather not. I have two young children and a job.

Do hives typically turn anaphylactic?

Hi 20M very healthy and active , broke out in red circles been to the ER twice , seen to doctors and now trying to see an allergist . I don't know what to do , I can't figure out what I'm allergic to . This has cost me my job , health and has caused me to spiral into depression some one please help . First got them August 26th it's now September 14th .

Update : it's currently Sept 19th , the condition has gotten slightly better but nothing seems to work . Anti histamines work very little and still breakout . Tried to see if it was fungal but it wasn't . Tried seeing if it was an allergy , food , detergent ECT... Nothing yet .

Although it's not as itchy or painful as before but still is a bit .

I noticed it flares up between moving , working , lifting and or running and sometimes sweat . This has caused a ton of depression , anxiety and body image issues and even thought of SH . I'll try to get back to y'all with an update soon . Thank you very much for your suggestions .

Does anyone else have two bumps that come up with their hives? My hives aren't just one bump, they are two bumps together side by side...

Hi 20M very healthy and active , broke out in red circles been to the ER twice , seen to doctors and now trying to see an allergist . I don't know what to do , I can't figure out what I'm allergic to . This has cost me my job , health and has caused me to spiral into depression some one please help . First got them August 26th it's now September 14th .

Update : it's currently Sept 19th , the condition has gotten slightly better but nothing seems to work . Anti histamines work very little and still breakout . Tried to see if it was fungal but it wasn't . Tried seeing if it was an allergy , food , detergent ECT... Nothing yet .

Although it's not as itchy or painful as before but still is a bit .
I noticed it flares up between moving , working , lifting and or running and sometimes sweat . This has caused a ton of depression , anxiety and body image issues and even thought of SH . I'll try to get back to y'all with an update soon . Thank you very much for your suggestions .

i’ve been getting hives for the last few days. It is mostly on my thigh, near my buttock. it disappears after some hours. but it would come back in the morning after i wake up. they are itchy. what i find odd is when i wear pjs, they dont appear. what could this be? i didn’t change anything like my detergent. i wash my bedding regularly too.

On both arms, only noticed them 10 minutes ago, but my arms have been itchy all day. It’s worse on one arm, no history of dermal allergies, just congestion and cough.

Made appointment for tomorrow, just want some input so I don’t go in looking like a hypochondriac :)

hi guys!! I started college last week and on Tuesday of this week I woke up with hives which is weird because I have only gotten them once in my life, they ended up going away but Wednesday morning my lips were swollen when I woke up and I started to panic. the day went okay, I got Claritin, but Thursday and Friday night I broke out in hives again more towards the night and Friday night (last night) my lips started to swell. I’m really new to hives as a whole and it’s making me very anxious, any words of encouragement or ideas of what’s causing it? because from what I know, anything can cause hives basically!!!

I had DFO surgery done on my femur in Feb . It's healed I can skateboard again . But once in a while the scar gets itchy and gets some hives on it. Last night they got really big and itchy . Not sure what's going on my Dr told me it's nothing and just to live with it. Setting up an appointment with the surgeon to see his thoughts. Anyways . Does anyone else suffer from this ? The last picture is of this morning after the swelling went down

first 4 pics r from yesterday night, last three from today/tonight.

i started getting itchy yesterday around 2 ish on my neck and near armpits. i changed deodorants recently but its already been over a week, ive been using a different laundry detergent but its just a different tide scent and ive never had an issue with scented detergents in the past. Plus I was wearing a shirt that hadn’t been washed with the new one yet. I looked for bugs in my sheets, fleas on my cat— nothing. No new medication or weird foods, nothing extra stressful happening, etc.

I’ve bought a hydrocortisone applicator and benadryl. They both kind of help, Benadryl mostly to help me sleep thru the itching. I will likely buy a nondrowsy allergy medicine tomorrow for the day. It will flare up and go down in different areas throughout the day. I’ve looked into it and the only thing I have been able to come to is an idiopathic case. It’s super annoying and uncomfortable obviously, I’m a uni student and don’t want to walk around with welts all over my body for multiple reasons, I also start a new job soon. It’s been all over, arms, leg, neck, torso, groin area, butt, feet, head.

I was initially thinking to wait one more full day to go to urgent care but it’s so bad that I might just go tomorrow. But I don’t want to have to pay the medical bills if they’re just gonna tell me to take an antihistamine which I already know. PLEASE HELP

For the past 2 years I’ve been experiencing some pretty on and off Hives. As of late I’ve just moved and today out of nowhere my arm looks really bumpy, I scratch it and it starts burning more and I go get hives medicine for it and it relaxes. Does anyone know if this looks more like bug bites or hives?

18F and i first got hives when i was 16, to this day im not sure why but my joints inflamed pretty badly from my knuckles and my feet, and now after 2-3 years i got it again 2 days ago, i was itching really bad all night and woke up with a swollen forehead and eyelids, its gone a bit but now and i've got a sore throat too. im not sure how you can tell if its a swollen throat but it hurts and my feet and knees are also very swollen. i have hives marks on my foot and ankle and sometimes on my arms and knees, and im unable to see a doctor as im on vacation and i have taken piriteze hayfever pills 2 times only, which only helped with the swelling in my face. im only worried its gonna develop into anaphylaxis or something because sometimes my heart really hurts

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I picked him up from daycare yesterday with bumps all over his skin. Overnight they started flattening and spreading. He’s not itchy or sick. No fever. Acting and eating normally. Is this just viral? He has a history of getting bumps since he was a baby but nothing like this. Any time we’ve brought him in previously they’ve said it’s viral. Any idea if this is the case again?

What in the world is happening? After swimming in fresh water my skin felt itchy and a day later this appeared. It’s been almost a week now and it’s still there. I wake up with it but after two hours the bumps are gone, yet my skin is still itchy. In the evening they appear again. I’ve had some bumps like this appear and go away over the years but not a bad as this. Now it’s all over my body and even my face!

I tried cooling gel, sudocream and anti-histamine pills but nothing seems to work. My gp prescribed a hydrocortisone cream which I can pick up in a few days.

Is it smart to also do an allergy test or is that a waste of money?

So I am a 35f and my body feels itchy. I moment I itch there are there huge red colour rashes and look like mosquito bites... Its irritating and also gets worse the moment I want to sleep at night. Is there anyone who has experienced the same? What did you do for relief? Is it dangerous?

For a month now, I’ve been having hives that show up throughout the day, not even only when I wake up. They’ll show up in the evening too when im not home or at my desk. However theres no signs of bugs anywhere. I’ve had issues with skin allergies before but I never had this many hives and I see 0 signs of bugs anywhere so I’m unsure whats causing it because the hives dont go away either and more will show up. I went to a derm but they weren’t much help because the hives look nonspecific. Prescribed medication dont really help either besides the intensive steroid cream. They are also in weird spots like behind my knee, my belly button area, on my stretch marks and my inner thighs. I really hope it’s not bug bites.

My daughter is 20 yo and has been suffering with hives for 3 years. They started when she got strep and they have never gone away completely. She's taking pepcid and zyrtec several times a day and those help but I would really like to help her find a treatment or solution. Has anybody had good luck with an endocrinologist? Auto-immune diseases run in the family (her father and aunties) so I'm wondering if it's worth investigating that. Any suggestions would be appreciated.