“Take this after your meal, it should help” I was told and I believed. I went home, had my lunch of a chicken pie and I took the medication after finishing my lunch, as prescribed.
I didn’t feel like doing much that day and decided to just chill, watch whatever that was streaming online and had snacks of sweet potato and corn. It was about three hours after that I started to a familiar chill. The skin around my eyes started to tingle. I knew that feeling. I had the same feeling before many years back when I took the wrong medicine, a common medicine for pain.
Almost everyone I know take them for fever, for pain, for whatever. But for me, the moment I take them, I would be okay for maybe an hour or two. After that, the skin around the eyes would tingle and itch. Then, they would start to swell. Just a little at first and then the swelling would replicate all around the eyes.
Within an hour, the little bumps would join up and my eyes would reduce in size to just a line. Once, I was at work when it happened and I had to drive back home with just one eye that could see a wee bit because the other one had been reduced to nothing due to the swelling.
That was how it was. I have been avoiding painkillers for years now but this round, it was the cause from another medication I have not taken before. And obviously, I had no idea that I was allergic to it. Well, now I know. It was 2 weeks ago when this happened.
Sometimes when we think about it, medications are meant to help but each of us react to them differently. Goodness knows what happens inside us or what medications do to us in the long run. Maybe just let nature take its course.
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That sounds bad. I know how it feels have these allergies frequently. Three days before it starts raining for example. First time was when I was at a wok restaurant with collegues. No one said something. I decided to go home. Once in the car I looked into the mirror and felt so shocked.
Even with antihistamine and drinking a lot of water it takes me days to feel better.
I hope you do by now.
Any idea which ingredient in the med causes it?
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Allergies are so frustrating aren't they? And sometimes there is no knowing what the allergen was, we can only make guesses. Yah, I don't even want to look at myself. Exactly! It takes days for the swell to subside. The longest I had experienced was a little more than a week. As the swell was subsiding, my eyes still looked as though I had cried the whole night or I had been punched. Luckily for this one, the dose was low and it took a few days to subside, not a week. The med had aspirin, and it is the prime suspect. No painkillers and aspirin for me moving forward.
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Better not use them. With me they don't work anyway. Warmth dus, darkness too and silence. Drinking a lot water can help too but not always.
At times I wake up and already feel there's something wrong. Painful face and eyes...swollen. Indeed it takes over one week and with some bad luck it starts again.😭
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That kind of allergy is a very serious allergy, my friend. You already have days of this event. I hope you are feeling well today. I have had allergies to some medication like penicillins. Thank God not to painkillers.
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I am feeling well now, thank you @gertu, avoiding medication for now. It is hard when it comes to allergy, we do not know if we are allergic to them until we take them. When I have fever, I can't take anything except to cool my body down until the fever goes away.
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Hello friend. That is painful to read. I take an acetaminophen for everything to calm my little aches and pains. It is very sad that you have to put up with your aches and pains because of allergies.
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