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[quote=Anonymous]This happened to me in graduate school – twice.  I mean, covered from head to foot.  Nothing new I had eaten or tried.  Sometimes you can have a reaction to something only if a "trigger" is present – you may only react to hot peppers if you are also under high stress, for example.  So sometimes it has to be two things going on at once for a reaction to happen.

When I first went in, they gave me Chlor-Trimeton, which did nothing.  They then put me on prednisone (steroid) for three weeks, and I had to taper off of it very slowly.  Even when I went off of it slowly I felt like I got hit by a truck, so be careful.

After that, once I had two episodes of this, the doctor gave me Allegra to carry around and to take a pill at the first sign of hives.  Often, I would feel tingly or itchy in a spot and before I fully erupted in hives, if I took an Allegra, it would head off the reaction.  I did that once or twice and then I never had them again.

I hope you feel better soon![/quote]

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