Greetings,
I'm 40 years old and shower daily with a soap that leaves my skin dry. I don't like moisterizer soap or lotions on my skin. It doesn't feel clean to me. I've been like this my whole life...never had any dermatology problems.
Anyway, I live in the California desert where tumbleweeds grow. Lots of people are allergic to the pollen including myself. Two years ago, my doctor told me to take Zyrtec. It worked within minutes! I took it regularly and when I ran out of pills I then went without for a few days. I had noticed a very odd reaction from not having it in my system. A horrible isolated itch with raised areas,swelling, and burning. I never had an itching like this before. It was as if the Zyrtec isolated the allergen and made it dormant within my body, until the medicine was out of my system. The first location was my tailbone area. I scratched until the skin was off. It will flare up in the same location for days, then it would move around. My hands and feet are the current locations. I usually take a Zyrtec and then I'm good for a few days. As of right now, I'm trying to not take a Zyrtec to see what happens. I've been fighting through it today. Hopefully it will go away.
Anyway, what do you all think about this?