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Hives from Accutane????

I took Accutane for 4 months and had to get off that medicine quickly because I started to develop HIVES!!!!!  It has been almost TWO YEARS and the only medicine that calms my hives is ZYRTEC. (which I take everyday) Will this allergy eventually go away??? I have never had this before until Accutane.  Please let me know!!!

Thanking you in advance!!!
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I starting taking accutane in Jan. 09 and stopped 6 weeks later because I developed hives. It seemed out of now where the hives started on my chest. And since forget about it! Today is 12/7/2009 and I still have hives every day! I originally told my dermatoligist 10 months ago. While I was there at the dr office I had a large hive on my foot, she did a biopsy and the dx was hive. She swears that the hives have nothing to do with the accutane and obviously it is well out of my system. I have since been to my primary care dr and then to an allerigist. To my amazement no dr can tell me what is causing these frustrating hives. I am now taking 1 benadryl and 1 pepcid at night and 1 claritin in the morning. I know that accutane caused this as I never had any problems with hives before. My allergist tells me I am getting hives not "because of somthing" rather "just because". I believe accutance has caused my skin to become ultra sensitive and pray I don't have to deal with hives fro the rest of my life!
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Hi. I was just wondering how are your hives now.Did they disappear completely? I also took accutane for 5 months and developed severe hives. They're leaving such horrible scars. Appreciate any advice! Thank you
Original post was from 2001 which was 16 years ago so doubtful original poster would see your question to respond.

Also this post was in the hepatitis c community you might want to ask a new question in the allergies community.
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I 'm suffering from your same sitaution i took accutane for 4 months at the middle of the third month i started to have itchy and scrathcy skin then i noteced that i had dermographia i stopped  on 11-5-2009 and still suffering from the hives every where once i'm touched or have a friction with any thing and its really bad i'm afraid i will continue
for many years such as u:(
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