Last Sunday, I woke up with huge bumps on my lower body that were extremely itchy, red, hard, flat, and hot. Never having experienced or seen anything like this, I panicked. I also got very dizzy and had trouble breathing for a good three-five minutes. I have no history of allergy to anything - food, weather, dirt, dust, nothing. My husband took me to the hospital, I was treated for hives, and was told to take Claritin once per day. The hives went away for the rest of the day. The next night I was awakened by terrible upper body muscle aches, and a sharp pain in my chest, behind my chest bone. The hives bumps also reappeared. All these symptoms then went away for the remainder of the day. The same occurred the next day, with the terrible muscle aches and sharp chest pain and bums that then disappeared. The third day, however, I woke up with the left half of my face completely swollen, and unable to move it. I went to the hospital again. I was told I had acid reflux and that the hives are causing the muscle pain, but that the swollen face is a mystery and that I should see an allergist. I was given pepcid for the acid reflux, and a steroid for the hives, and benadryl at night. Since then I've been getting the hives every morning and then they go away, and the acid reflux is just settling in (now it occurs throughout the day too) while the muscle pains have gone away completely. What's also weird is that after that first day of itching, these bumps don't itch at all. They are there, swollen, and red, and ugly, but they don't itch. My problem is that I have this acid reflux ever since I got this strange bout of hives and have no idea what to do about it and when it'll go away. Nothing in my diet changed, I'm not allergic to anything that I know, and I literally did not change anything in my lifestyle - it's a complete mystery. Please help me with some explanation about what happened to me.