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to be mildly panicking about my swollen face?

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QueenSconetta · 01/01/2011 21:45

My top lip up to my nose has swollen up and feels really uncomfortable. Can't think what it is, and I've taken an anti-histamine and it hasn't made any difference.

DP is at night shift and DD is asleep upstairs and I'm mildly freaking out I have some kind of tropical disease!

I would be hugely unreasonable to phone my Mum and ask her to come and look at it wouldn't I?

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QueenSconetta · 01/01/2011 22:48

Defo no more boozing tonight, was at ILs for dinner is all then home to put DD to bed at about 7.30, so last drink finished at about 7pm!

THink will take a piriton then bed.

THank you for your help, x.

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RiojaLover75 · 01/01/2011 22:52

Could be a cold sore, some of mine come up like I've been whacked in the face, not just a teeny tiny blister.

Hope when you wake up you'll have a better idea of what this is.

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QueenSconetta · 01/01/2011 22:56

Have taken a piriton and think it is easing off, may physcosomatic relief but that's ok, lol. Think I will have a wee cup of tea then bed.

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QueenSconetta · 01/01/2011 23:04

Oh FFS, lip feeling better but have just noticed big blotchy rash all over my chest and arms. Why does this stuff always happen at night or BHs?

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Katisha · 01/01/2011 23:05

Have you had a bug recently? My DSs and DH always get a big blotchy post-viral rash at the end of a bug.

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QueenSconetta · 01/01/2011 23:09

Yes Katisha, I am just getting over the really-very-nasty-cold-nearly but-not-quite-flu thing that has been going around here, so maybe that is it. Never had that before though. I seem very prone to allergic type things at the moment.

Are you G&S fan btw?

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Katisha · 01/01/2011 23:14

Well that would be my non-professional diagnosis.

And yes! Not many people get that reference so ta very much!

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QueenSconetta · 01/01/2011 23:21

You're welcome! Thank you for your non-prof diagnosis, lol.

I have dabbled in a little non-staged G&S myself but more modern musicals are more my thing. When I say more modern I mean like Rogers and Hammerstein etc, so not all that modern.

My G&S devoted Dad would defo approve though!

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Katisha · 01/01/2011 23:22

No you don't want to get any more modern than that!
Trouble with musicals is that there's not so much for the chorus to do really...

McDreamy · 01/01/2011 23:23

Has the antihistamine worked at all?

McDreamy · 01/01/2011 23:26

Sounds like angioedema, Ds had this a few weeks ago.

hottiemamma · 01/01/2011 23:27

cetirizine is not antihistamine - you need Piriton or an own brand anti-histamine - Boots or Asda or similar

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QueenSconetta · 01/01/2011 23:39

McDreamy Yes it has thank you. My lip is a lot more comfortable so must be going down. Still have quite a rash on my body but lessening on arms so that is good.

Katisha You're right, although a lot of the ones we have done (Me and My Girl, Anything Goes, Oklahoma etc) there as been a fair bit. I have been lucky enough to usually be a principal so I have been ok Wink

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QueenSconetta · 01/01/2011 23:42

Hottie - Cetirizine is the generic of Zirtek which the doctor prescribed to me previously as a long acting antihistamine for previous allergic reaction.

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QueenSconetta · 01/01/2011 23:42

Cetirizine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cetirizine a second-generation antihistamine.

I have however also now taken a piriton.

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blinks · 02/01/2011 00:01

rash with swelling not surprising if you're having an allergic reaction... hope the piriton kicks in soon x

onmyfeet · 02/01/2011 00:02

I take Cetirizine daily, for my regular allergies, but when I had an allergic reaction in June, the doctor told me to also take Benadryl.

However, I am in Canada and our Benadryl has a different medication in it than the UK version.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benadryl

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QueenSconetta · 02/01/2011 00:04

Thanks for your help Blinks, night night, x.

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blinks · 02/01/2011 00:19

no probs.. night night x

Katisha · 02/01/2011 21:13

How are things today?

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QueenSconetta · 02/01/2011 21:59

Back to normal thanks Katisha. I have taken another long acting AH to be on the safe side though.

Thank you for asking, x.

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AnnOnimous · 02/01/2011 22:03

I developed something very similar just before Christmas, it felt as if I had been to the dentist.

Turned out to be Bells Palsy.

Phone NHS 24 and get their advice.

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QueenSconetta · 02/01/2011 22:09

Thanks Ann, it has gone now and combined with the rash I'm pretty sure it was an allergic reaction to something.

Any re-occurrence I will defo be going to the doctors though.

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eragon · 03/01/2011 00:39

you need to go to the docs now, and find out the true cause.

you dont want to mess around with ige allergies.

what you describe is a mild reaction that worked with antihistamines, and went away, and then came back, thats a pretty persistant reaction, and of course, lip swelling and particularly a tight throat are not symptoms you should really ignore.

i suggest you go to your gp ask about being reffered to a immunologist, and in the mean time ask for a blood test for shell fish and or other suspects.

carry antihistamines with you at all times, until you firmly discover the cause.

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