I get horrible hives, and have since I can remember. My early childhood days were spent in ice baths, continuously downing dimatap, and trips to the ER due to my throat closing off. I got scratch tested then, but my allergies have changes in my adulthood. I currently take atarax for my hives and it works great, but I am helpless without it! My current dr/insurance is all wacked out, and I am out of my presciption and wont get any for some time.
In the mean time, benadryl is the ONLY thing that keeps the hives at bay, even though they still appear. But the problem is that i'm taking 1-2 pills every few hours, ALL DAY and ALL NIGHT. I'm tired, scatterbrained, and itchy, nervous and twitchy all day. I have a hard time concentrating, forming sentences, and drowsy all day.
It's just hard to chose between the two: Have my eyes swollen shut, itchy, painful hives all over, and being ashamed to go out in public- or to be tired and pretty much mentally useless all day.
I just don't know what to do to curb my hives. And what are the effects of taking benadryl all day, every day? HELP!
...I am misrable...