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[amand_r]

1. Amand-r's current internal soundtrack

2. There's a Torchwood/Doctor Who porn battle going on at cyus's this weekend. The themes for the month are historical sex, tight spaces, and real!sex (which I call fail!sex). :D Go forth and porntificate. At the least read the yummy offerings and comment!

3. I'll be cleaning my house for the next week. Feel free to email me pictures of how fucking spotless I think all of your places are. I just naturally assume that you are all better, cleaner, prettier and better educated people than I am. It makes me want to clean the bathroom sink. It's a thing. Later I might cook something. Probably not.

4. Not thirty seconds after I woke this morning, my feet started to itch, on the ankles and the tops. I scratched for a while and then thought better of it, because that's just going to skin my feet, so I sat on the edge of the bathtub and washed them with soap and cold water, and that poof thing. And it didn't help all that much, and when I looked at them: hives. Everywhere. So I dried them off and slathered when with a hydrocortisone that is completely inappropriate for this thing and the kidlet and I went downstairs for breakfast.

Within thirty seconds of sitting down I had an itch on the back of my thigh and I scratched it absently. Then more and more, and then I realised that both my legs itched insanely. I went back upstairs, stripped down and started washing with cold water and the poof. The backs of my thighs are now covered in hives where I guarantee they hadn't been thirty seconds before that first itch.

The only thing I can think is that it's stress, which is laughable because I am a stay-at-home mom with no financial troubles. So in an effort to de-stress, I'mma let some things go. Some of those are online things, and for that, people who are about to be pissed at me, I am sorry. But I just can't sit here weeping and ripping my skin off.

Oh my god. It's intense. Fuck. It better not hit my arms. MY SCALP TINGLES. Fuck. I wish I was exaggerating this. I cannot sit still.

Comments

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Benadryl?

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I just threw a whole bottle of it away because it was old and I was like, "oh! I never use this!" Mother effer.

[fractured-sun.livejournal.com]

Have you changed your detergent or soap recently? Hope you feel better soon.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

No, and thanks.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Maybe the poof has sparkles still in it? *frets*

Baking-soda paste works well for hives, I hear. Cool bath with two cups of baking soda in it, then rub more soda on the affected areas. Also avobath, though you'd have to go out to get that unless you have some in the house. It's used for poison oak.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I got rid of the poof. J

Yeah, cornstarch is actually best, and I have some of that. I guess the world is going to have to wait for my genius as I marinate like a piece of General Tso's.

[amonitrate.livejournal.com]

3. dude, i'm too embarrassed to send you pics of my house right now, it's that disgusting.

4. not to sound silly and maternal, but have you seen a doctor about the hives?

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Haahahahaha. HOUSE IS HORRIBLE. POSSIBLY THE HIVES ARE FROM THAT.

I would see a doctor, except he'd going to ask me the same kinds of questions I have already asked and then he's going to tell me to buy some specialised OTC soaps and then some benedryl, and I could do all that myself. I think it's funny how intermittent they are. Some days I don't get them at all, then other days I have them all day, and others at certain times. Already the bumps are gone from my feet, but they're touch sensitive. If I stay very still, I don't itch.

[lastrega.livejournal.com]

If you've got some liquid antacid in the house, it makes a useful substitute for calamine lotion. Dab it on the same way and it's really soothing on rashes/hives. We used to use on drug rashes all the time.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Ooooh. Wait. I have neither of these things. I should go to the chemist's.

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

They will ask you all these things, but they will be able to figure out why, and most importantly, give you meds to stop the pain and itch. A dermatologist will get to the bottom of this for you far faster than our guesswork. This has been going on awhile, and oh they hurt so bad. :*(

It took some figuring but we finally figured out that when I ate farmed fish, primarily salmon with its pretty pink color? WHAM! HIVES! I now make sure if I eat fish it is wild caught and plain ol normal. No fakery allowed.

I know I told you that my hives sent me to the ER. I don't want that to happen to you too.

I like that music. I could write to that music.

Hugs on the other. Explode away--I rather envy your ability to do that. I find it...impossible.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

God, I went to a dermatologist for some mysterious skin thing on my fingers, and they gave me a prescription for a cream that was supposed to treat something completely not what I had. I think they don't know what I had. I still have to wear gloves with lotion in them, like Curly, from Of Mice and Men. LOL. Srsly, even now, my hands are pruney and wrinkled like old people hands. Wtf.

YOU SHOULD WRITE TO THAT MUSIC. it is great music to write to. I should make you people a fanmix someday.

If the hives get bad, I swear I will take evasive action. I will call my mom the nurse. I will fire two proton torpedos down the exhaust port an pull up at the right time. The death star will explode.

[crowie.livejournal.com]

Ack that sounds awful with the hives :(

My cat just had fleas so I've been in mad cleaning mode and getting paranoid at every single time my skin itches (I did get bitten before I realised exactly what was going on).

So yeah, reading about that is making me get all paranoid again, nevertheless I hope you get better, unexplained random things that show up and bug you are just a complete pain.

Also right now things are clean here re: flea paranoia but usually I'm er.. yeah *cough* not ok, my clean-o-meter is rather broken and I don't care too much about stuff.

I don't know of any helpful tips when it comes to hives and itching so just have another Nikita!Macro

'cos you know TOES

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

YOU CAT IS GORGEOUS.

Yeah, we had fleas so bad here last year I had scalp itches (yet had to fleas in my hair, just saying), and my legs were bitten to hell. I had to chemical bomb the house. I hope...::shifty eyes:: I hope that's not happening right now. I don't have any bites...

Shit.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Benadryl and maaaaybe you need a shot.

Have you used any different soaps or cleaning products? Have you eaten anything you don't usually eat?

Mr Fox gets random hives which go away. It's very odd but hasn't been that serious.

*hugs*

We both used that "go forth..." line and I wrote my pimp post last night. Huh. GMTA, babe.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha we have brain linkage. This is good, because I was sick of being attached to N's brain.

Shot, like Tequila? Because I could get down with that.

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

I got hives in my last year of archictecture school so I understand the stress hive concept. And, yes, I'd suggest keeping benadryl on hand for awhile - you might want to take a low dose for a few days before you go to bed (cause benadryl makes me sleepy), to try and knock down the build-up of histamine in you system.

Also, get some simple, fragrance free soaps (incl. laundry soap).

The think with the recurrance is that, even if it's stress, it's building up histamine in you system and you'll get sensatized until those levels go down. Oral beandryl will help with that.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, Benedryl makes me so sleepy. I might just to insane in the allergy OTC section at Rite aid and buy a little of everything. I have Claritin here, but that looks like it's for allergies...like pollen and shit.

[azarias.livejournal.com]

I could invite you to view my den of filth! That'd keep you feeling superior for the rest of the year, easy. (Though we're theoretically going to clean up over the next week, since we have a Very Important Guest coming bringing with him some Very Important Nookie for one of the housemates.)

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

CLEAN THE HOUSE FOR THE FUCK BUDDY.

Re: How spotless a tiny portion of my bedroom is

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

???

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Oh sweet Jesus! if you didn't have hives before, this pic might just give you some.

Unshown, on the floor, is a towel, an empty box from individual apple sauces and some assorted kraft Dinner crackers.

Please note, this is mostly assorted clutter and not like, rotting food.

Also, please note, that I am actually embarassed by this photo, and I am hard to embarass!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I think I love you.

[lionessvalenti.livejournal.com]

I'll send you a picture of my room. My mom would freak out if she found me putting pictures of the rest of our house on the internet. My room currently only has two places where you can actually see the floor: the entrance to my room (I can close and open my door with ease), and right next to my computer chair. Sometimes these spaces are one big space. Right now there's junk in the middle. And a Chick-Fil-A bag that's been there for about a month.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Wow. Still.

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

Do you have benadryl (either the cream or the spray or the tablets?) that should help ...

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I don't. I am fixing to get some this evening.

[bethcarielle.livejournal.com]

I have crazy skin reactions to things all the time; including extreme heat and the sun...yes, I'm allergic to UV. I keep cortisone in my bag for that reason.

Looks like everyone as already suggested everything I'd suggest for hives but I will say that the 24 hour antihistamines (claritin and what have you) shouldn't make you sleepy and should help quell the histamine reaction, even in the skin. I've been known to take them every 12 hours when an allergy gets really bad but I can't afford to be unconscious for 16 hours from benadryl. Plus benadryl hangovers SUCK.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I'll try the claritin right now, then.

[elainasaunt.livejournal.com]

Sure hope the Claritin works, girl. I used to have random violent itching attacks but they gradually went away with age. One of the things about being OLD that you can look forward to.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

GREAT. I HAVE ENOUGH MYSTERY ISSUES WTF.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

I would send you a photo of the HELL KITCHEN, but my camera batteries are fail.

Suffice to say it is what happens when two guys live together, one of them refuses to do dishes, and the other one decides to see what happens if he uses all the other dishes in a misguided effort to manipulate Guy A into lifting a finger in there.

THIS HAS GONE EXACTLY AS BADLY AS YOU THINK IT HAS.

*twitch*

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I SO CLEANED MY HOUSE, LIFTY! I CLEANED IT HARD. I HAD TO EMPTY THE VACUUM CLEANER FIVE TIMES. FIVE.

I did that once. with the dishes. I got roaches. Never again.

Is it time for passive aggressive side comments about living in filth? Try that.