cytotec...life

[sacausa ICN Member Find all posts View Profile Close sacausa]

Cytotec gave me my life back... but over the last few days I started getting my period and it's giving me a full BLOWN IC flare!

I have 3 exams this week: tommorow (or actually today) I have philosophy, wednesday I have a british lit exam and thursday I have a history of medicine in western society exam

yay

tommorow I also have a bio lab quiz and bio lab report due (and my B*** of 2 of my lab partners STUCK me with their work), sometimes I WISH IC ON OTHERS, I know this is wrong but I think it's so twisted that the "sick" one is stuck with the most work....

so now, It's 12:15am, I have to get up in a couple of hours to finish THEIR lab report which is part of MY grade... study for both my history and philosophy exams and bio quiz and TAKE MY PHILOSOPHY EXAM

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah (ok why isn't there a smily face that's just plain screaming??!)

the complication now is that I've broken out in HIVES! I no longer take an antihistamine because I DIDN"T NEED IT! But now I have 3 HUGE hives along my spine, on my legs, head etc. and I do not want to take atarax because I KNOW it's going to compromise my ability to take that exam tommorow so I just used hydrocortisone cream that's obviously not kicking in.

oh, and last week my mom left for South Africa for 3 months and it's in the middle of the night there so I can't even call her to vent... I called my darling brother and he tries very hard to understand what I'm going through but I don't think he quite gets it....

I'm registered with the awful student's dissabilities services but they are honestly a joke.... I'm not even going to go into that, but seriously they're no help and not an option

TOMMOROW I FEEL LIKE WEARING A T-SHIRT WITH MY CYSTOSCOPY PICTURES POSTED ON IT

[Sarojini Support Leader Find all posts View Profile Close Sarojini]

Whoa... sounds like you are totally stressed out and have good reason to be!! It's really unfair when we are stuck with the work of people who are too lazy to do it; the worst thing is, they'll get credit for whatever it is they didn't do anyway. I can see why you are angry and stressed.

I'm sure your hives and IC flare are at least partly due to this stuff. s

[aprilmae IC Friend Find all posts View Profile Close aprilmae]

Benadryl makes a cream for allergic rashes. It is great stuff - along the lines of calamine lotion. I use it when I start itching from meds or coming into contact with something that makes me breakout. It works well - especially when you can't take an antihistamine.

Your situation is one reason I am against group work in school or other places.

You really have too much going on - I hope you were able to get everything done and that you are able to get some rest.

[sacausa ICN Member Find all posts View Profile Close sacausa]

thanks for the replies... I think my philosophy exam went okay and the hives are gone today (although I was talking to my mom an RN today, and she said that the fact that the "hives" were running along nerves... that it sounded to her like shingles?)

[aprilmae IC Friend Find all posts View Profile Close aprilmae]

Was it painful? I have heard shingles are painful but really have no idea. I have had hives before and I just remember itching like crazy. What did your mom tell you to do for it?

[sacausa ICN Member Find all posts View Profile Close sacausa]

It was really painful but also itched like crazy.... but I wouldn't touch it because they hurt too much.... she told me that if it happens again I should go to the er

[Babs RN Angel watching over us Find all posts View Profile Close Babs RN]

Yikes, I think your Mom might be right. If they are following nerve pathways and are painful it could be a possiblity(shingles that is). Are the lesions open? I hope your exams and lab turn out well. I completely understand the group who dumps on the hard worker and then ride your coat tails and hard work for an A. Had quite a few projects in nursing school that were that way and I can still remember those slacker people by name. If those areas don't improve, I would go to the doc as soon as possible. They maybe able to put you on an oral antiviral like Valtrex or Zovirax(if it is shingles)and I believe Zovirax comes in a cream as well. Hang in there!

Hugs,
Barb

[ICNDonna ICN Staff Find all posts View Profile Close ICNDonna]

My husband had shingles and I learned that one way to know that's the problem is that if you were to draw a line down the center of your nose, completely to your crotch, up the center of your back and around the center of your head until the lines meet (dividing your body in half) --- if it's shingles, every one of the bumps will be on the same side of the line. When my Terry had them, it was on his scalp and face and you could definitely see the dividing line.

If it IS shingles, please see a doctor ASAP --- there are some very effective treatments for it.

Donna

[ICLori ICN Member Find all posts View Profile Close ICLori]

Hope you feel better soon! Hang in there!

Blessings,
Lori

[sacausa ICN Member Find all posts View Profile Close sacausa]

I took Allegra last night and covered all the "bumps" with hydrocortisone cream and they're gone today..... if they happen again I'll definitely go to the doctor, thanks for all the replies

I was telling my "best friend" basically what I said in the top post and this is the reply I got:

"Just because something bad happens it doesn’t mean you can be negative, things happen Carla, which is the way life is, and things are not always going to be dandy. I know people whose lives are worse then yours and I have never herd anything negative come from their mouth, you have it very good compared to some people. You have it VERY good."

and

"What? Why? omg, is that health disorders. Don’t f**** start with me. GET OVER YOURSELF. I am so sick of you complaining, and talking about the whole ‘oh sorry me, I am sick’.
You are to busy worried about your own self, and feeling bad for yourself."

great friend huh?

[ICLori ICN Member Find all posts View Profile Close ICLori]

Okay, I'm kind of drunk right now because it is our anniversary and we went out to dinner and I decided to have a couple of brandy and cokes, so I'm probably going to say something I'll regret later, but - I would dump that friend. Does not sound like a real friend at all to me. I have nothing to do with toxic, hurtful people. Unless she is never like this and this is a very unusual case. If this is the first time she's been like this, maybe you guys can just talk and see what the deal is, but if she's been like this often, I'd say...get rid of the friend. Really, life is too darn short.

Blessings,
Lori

[swarr ICN Member Find all posts View Profile Close swarr]

When I had shingles my dr. gave me a pill specific for the disease. It went away no pain. I think it started with a "Z" and stress definately caused mine!!

[Moonheart ICN Member Find all posts View Profile Close Moonheart]

I took Allegra last night and covered all the "bumps" with hydrocortisone cream and they're gone today..... if they happen again I'll definitely go to the doctor, thanks for all the replies

I was telling my "best friend" basically what I said in the top post and this is the reply I got:

"Just because something bad happens it doesn’t mean you can be negative, things happen Carla, which is the way life is, and things are not always going to be dandy. I know people whose lives are worse then yours and I have never herd anything negative come from their mouth, you have it very good compared to some people. You have it VERY good."

and

"What? Why? omg, is that health disorders. Don’t f**** start with me. GET OVER YOURSELF. I am so sick of you complaining, and talking about the whole ‘oh sorry me, I am sick’.
You are to busy worried about your own self, and feeling bad for yourself."

great friend huh?

That is NOT a friend. Period. You are a very pretty girl and I suspect this "friend" has a bit of jealousy going on behind the scenes. Even girls that are pretty themselves will get jealous and snitty. They don't want anyone else to be pretty, just themselves. So you don't need extra stress in your life right?

HUGS,
Moonheart

[aprilmae IC Friend Find all posts View Profile Close aprilmae]

I have to agree that this is definitely not a friend and with all of the stress you are under you definitely do not need this to add to it.

[miz_sunshine87 IC Friend Find all posts View Profile Close miz_sunshine87]

I agree with moonheart.
Sadly, I wouldn't put it past some of my friends to say something like that either. People get mad if I ignore them, but sometimes I do it because I know I will start complaining, and then they will tell me to stop complaining, and then I will get mad at them so it is just easier to put off seeing them.

I'm feeling pretty crappy myself. I thought I was making progress, and now I am overdue on all these assignments, I lost a professor's CD (she is going to freak!), I have a cold, I've got my period which is making my IC worse, I feel as though I am about to give birth to a bowling ball, and I just yelled at my mom and she probably thinks I'm suicidal or something (I'm not, I'm just a big talker).

BUT I know I need to snap out of this, start doing some homework, try to make myself happier... maybe get a new haircut tomorrow...something, because if I don't I am going to loose all the progress I made and the IC really will get worse, and then it iwll be my fault.

I hope you can get past all this stress, and your flare goes away soon. You've come so far, I would hate it if things got worse again for you!

Anyways, g2g pee again

feel better soon!