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Strange reactions to allergy shots... So frustrated I just want to scream...

ohsoallergic

ohsoallergic

Thursday, May 29, 2008
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I continued to tell the allergy shot nurse about all the symptoms, and the doctor eventually stopped coming in to talk to me altogether.  I think they all thought I was crazy, or making it all up.  Finally, sick of being blown off, I had my husband take a picture of the welts on my arms after the shots.  When I showed the picture to the allergy nurse, she was genuinely surprised at seeing the welts, even though I had been telling her about it for months!!  At that point, after 10 months of misery, I decided that it was foolish of me to continue putting my life in this doctor's hands every week when he clearly wasn't taking me seriously, so I just stopped going in. 

 

Now, 8 months after my last allergy shot, I still have the symptoms.  Only now, I'm not really sure what's causing it.  I don't feel like I have the flu anymore, but that's the only thing that has gone away.  Sometimes my throat and tongue will swell up for no apparent reason.  I am noticing a pattern of swelling with Advil and sometimes with caffeine.  But sometimes there is no cause I can figure out.  I would love to go get another Kenalog shot to make all this calm down, but I don't want to talk to that doctor and risk having him look at me the way he did before (that "yeah, ok, whatever" look he was so good at).  At this point, I have just about resigned myself to living like this... never leave the house without my benadryl... my Epi-pen... and my inhaler (oh, yeah, did I mention I have had asthma since age 2?)  I still click when I talk, I still always feel like I need to burp.  And as a bonus, now I seem to have developed an allergy to sunlight!  Sometimes when I'm out in the sun without sunscreen for just a few minutes, I get hives where the sun hits my skin!  Unreal!  Have you ever heard of someone getting this much worse after starting allergy shots?  I am so tired of feeling like this all the time, but I don't know what to do.  Maybe my GP was right.  Maybe I am crazy- I don't know.  Anybody have any ideas, input, anything?  Even knowing there is one person out there who has had a similar experience would help... I feel totally alone in this.

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