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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?

[fractured-sun.livejournal.com]

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

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

No, and thanks.

[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.

[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.

[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]

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.

[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.

[amonitrate.livejournal.com]

ahahhaha. well, point taken.

If it will make you feel better, I will take pictures of the digusting kitchen. Just for you.

Hives sound really, really horrible. Like the time I got caught in a black fly swarm while hiking. I've never had them, so that's my closest imaginary approximation.

Hope they go away soon.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

If I have one pet peeve, it's formication. I seem to be susceptible to it, which is one of the reasons I have always suspected that I have some mild psychiatric disorder. Like a crazy people disorder (like the mild synesthesia I have convinced myself I have). It's maddening.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

But just think how delicious you will eventually be! :D

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

LOL AND HOW APPROPRIATE THAT I WILL STILL NOT BE AUTHENTICALLY CHINESE.

[amonitrate.livejournal.com]

Of course I misread that as "fornication" and was like. But Amand_r, all the porn! How can that be your pet peeve??

It could be a nerve thing, too, right?

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

HAAHAHAHAH THAT'S WHY I LIKE TO SAY IT. EVERYONE THINKS I MEAN PORN, BUT I MEAN LINKIN PARK:


CRAWWWWWLLLLLING IN MY SKIIIIIIIIN
THESE WOUNDS THEY WILL NOT HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAL.

I guess it could be a nerve thing. I have a lot fo damaged nerves from the surgery, which is why I assumed the scalp formication was pretty much linked to that. But the hives are something else.

[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.

[amonitrate.livejournal.com]

you're a tricky one, you.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

It's a good word. When you say it in public, people double take.

[amonitrate.livejournal.com]

it is a good word!! I learned something today.

[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.

[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 also learned that sex pollen isn't rape.

[amonitrate.livejournal.com]

eyeroll.

[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.

[lastrega.livejournal.com]

Dude...go get some benadryl and calamine.