For the past 2 years, after spending any night of excessive drinking, I will wake up to find this same exact hive, approximately the same exact shape and size, sort of like a burn blister, on my inner bicep.
What is going on with this? Groggy, slumpy, hyper, shaky, cranky, surrree… regular symptoms, you can expect to be regular.
ONE… friggin… hive… not splotches, not scattered, not riddled with other such anomalies, but just the one.
SO - whats the science of this one molecular immorphitation.
I know last night it was all beers. But as far as the last 2 years, if it has been the consistent factor. Alternate options are
guys for real, i express my thoughts weird. I wasnt educated. I am sorry. that you take it the way you do.
But I have an anomale, that a doctor will only say… hmmm… go on your tread mill and stop drinking, it will clear right up.
ok cool. but. it goes away on its own, leaving no scars or complications.
SO… collective minds of the WORLD WIDE WEB. You correspondents of a signature collective of time and geographic cultural circumstances. I seek you out, bring me your ideas.
It does not occur every night of drinking.
It does not scar or scab.
It shows up on the mid seem of my tricep/bicep.
It goes away within a day.
It holds the dimensions of a burn blister.
The same exact dimensions every time.
The same spot every time.
No pain. No itch. No fuzz. No puss. No guff.
it just exists with my hangover, and recedes on its own.
What is it? How is it so, as it is, the same every time, that it is?
Sounds like an allergy. You could try taking a Zyrtec before you go drinking (and maybe drink a little less because the Zyrtec might make you tired) and see if it still happens. If it doesn’t happen, it’s probably an allergic reaction, if it does still happen it’s probably something else.
I’ll occasionally get really puffy red eyes. I won’t know it’s happening until someone asks me if I’ve been crying. At that point all I have to do is stop drinking for about 20 minutes and it goes away. I assume it’s not the alcohol though, I’m sure it’s something else. My theory, thus far, is that it happens at restaurants that use real strawberries in their margaritas.
The first time it happened was the first time I had a Orange Juice and Malibu. If that uses real coconut, maybe I’m allergic to coconut too.
It was vodka/tonic. I tried leaving out the tonic, it still happened. Left out the lime, it still happened. Left out the swizzle stick and it hasn’t happened since!!
I get histamine reactions when I drink sometimes, especially beer or red wine. Face gets really red and hot, face and hands swell. One Zyrtec works like a charm for me.
So there, OP, among all the mirth and unhelpful wisecracks you did get one piece of actual good advice, backed up by the anecdotal experience of at least one other poster!
Speaking as an MD making a WAG, I’d have to wonder if that particular area had some sort of trauma in the past, particularly thermal, such as a 2nd degree burn or frostbite injury.
That could make that patch more responsive to histamine release which often occurs during and after intoxication.
Or not. But it’s the first hypothesis that popped into my head.
IMmorphitation - the alteration of an existing structure, where it reverts to its previously existent state, without any evident signs of transfer; by the resulting transformation.
