I got 3 shots. And a bag full of creams and pills.
Not one of the creams has helped.
I got some Solarcain and colloidal oatmeal bath stuff. I think those will help.
I’m just gonna have tough it out til the shots kick in.
I hope they’ve kicked in by now. The creams won’t help as much as the pills, assuming the pills include Rx antihistamines and steroids, but use them anyway. And let us know how you’re doing. I hope you sleep well tonight.
My back is one huge red angry rash.
I got to dialysis with a temperature.
They took me to a treatment room and sprayed lidocain. It burned like hades.
In a few minutes I couldn’t feel anything back there. Hallelujah!
I got Fever-all and they hooked me up to the machine.
I am laying here dreaming of Tacos.
Fever-induced taco dreams. I think that may be a song lyric.
Holy gorgonzoley!!
My back is ITCHY!
I can’t reach it. No one will accommodate me. (Ewwww! Gross!!)
I take that back, baby wrex would. I don’t know where her grubby little paws have been. Nope.
Sent a picture to my doctors office.
His NP called be back and said that’s not Ivy rash. That’s ‘hives’.
It’s secondary to the original outbreak.
Thx, fairie-pixie in the sky. It’s no matter. I did dialysis today, have lifelong diabetes and failed kidneys. Throw alittle skin rash, dermititis or boils and cankers, in there. Maybe a carbuncle or 3!
A pox upon me.
So…the NP said try apple cider vinegar on it. Again, no one wants to get close to my psuedo-leprosy. Damn jerks!
I go in the shower. Strip down. Bend over.( Quit thinking that, right now!!)
And pour half a gallon of vinegar over my back. Immediately, for a brief second I thought death sweet death had come.
Oh No! No such relief.
Damn fairie-pixie let me live to suffer the burn of hell on earth.
Peeps out there in the peanut gallery if anyone ever tells you to pour vinegar on your hives, nude in the shower, you have my permission to punch them in the throat!
Then the second burn occured. Yep you guessed it. The vinegar ran downward. That little thing called gravity is a bitch.
I finally, after standing under cool running water, got some relief. Of course me and bathroom smell like a salad.
I sat down in my bed still nekkid and realized my back wasn’t itching as bad. As soon as I put a tee shirt on it started itching again. Took off the shirt ‘better’. Clothes on ‘bad’
Now I have a conundrum. Stay locked in my room. And have relief.
Walk around nekkid, thereby grossing everyone out. I’m pretty sure little grandwrex don’t need to see all that.
Or wear clothes and suffer.
Hmmm!? What will I do?
Day-um, Beck, that sounds like hell, all right. Misery doesn’t love company, but I’ve been where you are, and reading about vinegar recommendation made me gasp. What the hell were these people thinking?
You said they put you on pills. Were any of those corticosteroids (prednisone)? I know lupus patients with kidney issues who take steroids, so hopefully they’re an option for you. If they put you on them before, you may need a higher dose.
When I was doing the “Hive-way to Hell” bit, fabric touching my skin made it so much worse, I went nekkid as much as possible. I couldn’t sit on anything upholstered. I could sleep thanks to satin sheets.As I said, cool baths were my only real relief.
Lidocaine is good, but I’m surprised they used the spray, as it often contains alcohol, which can worsen the inflammation. Maybe they had a special kind.
Topically, I used a steroid gel, layered under Vani-Cream, a nonallergenic moisturizer developed by the Mayo Clinic because a dermatologist recommended it . (I still use it–lasts 24 hours and the best moisturizer out there.)
A random thought, since you mentioned itching again once you put on a shirt – have you changed laundry detergents recently?
Sadly, allergies can work this way. In my case, it was an overindulgence in strawberry ice cream that sent me to the ER with the worst case of hives I ever had.
Lidocaine is wonderful stuff. The aloe vera doesn’t do much in that configuration but buying a live aloe plant is amazing. You cut a leaf off, slice it open along the centerline, put it in a Ziploc bag and run a rolling pin over it to squish out the contents. Then, don’t wait, slap it directly on the itch or sunburn for relief. It works. The problem with aloe gels is that it has lost its potency within a few hours of extraction.
I’m on steroids. And a multitude of other crap.
2 things have changed. Went on dialysis and gardened last weekend.
Think I’ll have me some 'roid rage😁
Psst. I know it don’t work that way.
New symptom: swollen ankles. Or cankles is what the lil’wrekker called them.
Someone more knowledgeable will chime in here on the cankles. A friend who was on dialysis had them, but I can’t remember why, so I’m no help there.
You need some answers re: the hives. Have you talked to your nephrologist about them? I’m not saying there’s a connection between the kidneys and the hives, but it seems like something a nephrologist and a dermatologist should discuss.
You said Noxema seems to help. You might try chilling the Noxema before applying. The cold may soothe the inflammation, if only temporarily.
Kidney failure can cause all kinds of skin issues.
I’ve always had skin issues so I wasn’t too worried about it.
I see kidney doctor next week. I’ll certainly bring it up to him.
Thx @nelliebly, you’ve been very helpful.
I’m feeling less itchy tonight.
That’s a plus.
Be sure to stock up on witch hazel and Preparation H.
Aaaaccckkk!!!
NO NO NO! Haven’t any of you learned from the story of the Three Bears???
Goldy Lockins’ Granny Hawkins* needs to steep in a room temp bath of water. That will be just right for her.
*I’m gonna TradeMark that name.