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dragonlady7via http://ift.tt/2bYmTA0:librarychick94 replied to your post “High livin’: I just walked four miles in flip-flops for frozen…”
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I read that page too when it first started happening. Yeah, but not quite exactly, and also why? I discontinued any meds that’s a reaction to literally two years ago. it came from nowhere and has gotten worse as the season has progressed. Also I have textureless but colored patches all over the rest of my torso, including areas that never see sunlight, but only when I have hives; they disappear when the hives go. (For a while I had a pair of near-perfect slightly ovaloid circles in the middle of my back, not lined up with any anatomical features or places clothing would irritate, but those faded after a couple of months.) Except yesterday I took a long hot shower and you could see the shadows of the patches on my skin. (I couldn’t tell if the back circles had come up, they’re in a spot where I can’t really see them.)
WHO KNOWS. A doctor sure won’t, but they’ll tell me a bunch of stuff and give me some expensive prescriptions to try, and after a while it’ll go away because it’s winter, and either it’ll come back next year (probably) or not, and I’ll probably have to come back to the doctor, and maybe they’ll order some expensive tests my insurance won’t cover, prescribe me some other stuff that’s a huge pain in the ass to use, and in the end the problem will either go away on its own or not, possibly because of the use of medicine or not.
Can you tell I’ve had eczema, sometimes severe, my whole life? Same deal. It comes and goes according entirely to its whim, is aggravated by some unpreventable but understandable stuff, responds mostly not at all to some treatment I have to apply constantly if at all in really faintly icky ways, and basically does whatever it wants and doesn’t care at all if I’ve been to the doctor’s office or not.
(The depression is precisely the same! the medicine is annoying and has noticeable side effects [hello gaining 30 pounds, you’re permanent aren’t you, yup! and then the doctor helpfully tells me to take up exercise, like i wasn’t working out intensely fifteen hours a week when the weight gain happened], the condition itself may or may not actually be responding, there’s an underlying problem that’s surely not being addressed but I’m damned if I know what it is.) (oh the asthma too! Plus the asthma meds cost 86% of my gross income per month so are unattainable. So I just deal.)
But I should make sure I don’t have skin cancer or anything, since I do have some form of medical coverage.
solar urticaria http://ift.tt/2c98lAV
I read that page too when it first started happening. Yeah, but not quite exactly, and also why? I discontinued any meds that’s a reaction to literally two years ago. it came from nowhere and has gotten worse as the season has progressed. Also I have textureless but colored patches all over the rest of my torso, including areas that never see sunlight, but only when I have hives; they disappear when the hives go. (For a while I had a pair of near-perfect slightly ovaloid circles in the middle of my back, not lined up with any anatomical features or places clothing would irritate, but those faded after a couple of months.) Except yesterday I took a long hot shower and you could see the shadows of the patches on my skin. (I couldn’t tell if the back circles had come up, they’re in a spot where I can’t really see them.)
WHO KNOWS. A doctor sure won’t, but they’ll tell me a bunch of stuff and give me some expensive prescriptions to try, and after a while it’ll go away because it’s winter, and either it’ll come back next year (probably) or not, and I’ll probably have to come back to the doctor, and maybe they’ll order some expensive tests my insurance won’t cover, prescribe me some other stuff that’s a huge pain in the ass to use, and in the end the problem will either go away on its own or not, possibly because of the use of medicine or not.
Can you tell I’ve had eczema, sometimes severe, my whole life? Same deal. It comes and goes according entirely to its whim, is aggravated by some unpreventable but understandable stuff, responds mostly not at all to some treatment I have to apply constantly if at all in really faintly icky ways, and basically does whatever it wants and doesn’t care at all if I’ve been to the doctor’s office or not.
(The depression is precisely the same! the medicine is annoying and has noticeable side effects [hello gaining 30 pounds, you’re permanent aren’t you, yup! and then the doctor helpfully tells me to take up exercise, like i wasn’t working out intensely fifteen hours a week when the weight gain happened], the condition itself may or may not actually be responding, there’s an underlying problem that’s surely not being addressed but I’m damned if I know what it is.) (oh the asthma too! Plus the asthma meds cost 86% of my gross income per month so are unattainable. So I just deal.)
But I should make sure I don’t have skin cancer or anything, since I do have some form of medical coverage.
