Suddenly swollen lip & hives
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Anonymous
| It is an allergy. You can suddenly be allergic to something at any time in your life. |
Anonymous
| Allergies. |
Anonymous
| Get an allergy test first to rule that out. The start keeping a log of changes n your lifestyle |
Anonymous
| I had this. I was allergic to a medication |
Anonymous
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This happened to me years ago when I was in college and couldn't afford a real doctor outside of the one on campus. My top lip once swelled to the size of a grape. imagine walking around campus with that. After an hour or so it would go down.
Anyway, I tracked my eating and realized it was related to dairy products. I had lived my entire life drinking milk and slowly developed some type of allergy to it. So I gave up milk products for about 10 years of my life. And started slowly reintroducing it because I missed cheese so much! Now I can eat all the cheese I want without problems, and ice cream once in awhile, but if I have too much dairy in one day, I'll get that old tingly feeling in my lip and it will swell just a little bit. |
Anonymous
| I started getting this from Advil. It was the orange coating. Can take dye free Advil. It was out of the blue. I took a dose and looked like Hitch within 2 hours. |
Anonymous
| There is such a thing as exercise induced anaphylaxis. My sister is allergic to a food item, but only if she eats it and then exercises. However, that reaction for her can be fatal, and she's been to the ER twice because of this. I would go to an allergist and try to figure out what you are allergic to, and definitely get an EPI-pen and carry it with you when you exercise. |
Anonymous
| I had this and tied it to Motrin. I’d never had an issue with ibuprofen or NDSAIDs but now can’t take them. All started at around 45. |
Anonymous
| Food allergy. They can start at any time in your life even if you didn’t have issues with that food previously. And you can start a reaction up to two hours afterwards, although most likely is within half hour of exposure. |
Anonymous
^ Just saw some responses and wanted to add that you can absolutely get this from medication as well as foods. Sometimes the medication itself and sometimes the dyes and additives. |
Anonymous
| exercise-induced urticaria is a thing. But I would see an allergist for further testing--reactions tend to get worse the more times you have them, so you'll want to know exactly what you're allergic to and try to avoid it--and have a plan for if benadryl stops working. |
Anonymous
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Please take this very seriously. I got this from Lisinopril, a blood pressure medication. I can NEVER take the medication again. Epi pen doesn’t help the angioedema caused by Lisinopril.
It is the lip swelling that you should particularly take seriously. It could be food, could be medication, could be idiopathic angioedema. The thing is your body is responding and acting in a way it shouldn’t. Listen to it and seek an answer. I ignored the cough I had with Lisinopril because I was so busy taking care of everyone else vefen ignored the lip swelling earlier in the day for the same reason. Only went to the ER when someone looked at me shocked and said “what happened to your lips?” Be well and put yourself first. |
Anonymous
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MAST cell activation syndrome?
I developed that in 2014, have flares every 3 or 4 yrs |