u/Ambitious_Studio_142

Just woke up and had to check haha, for anyone who was concerned yesterday or waiting to play because of the error message

Things to note: I have only had hives once or twice in my life for roughly 12 and 24 hour increments and they were spontaneous, and unexplained. I have NEVER experienced anything like this. Ive also had terrible fatigue and just generally felt unwell and have had muscle / joint pain.

On Friday I noticed I was itchy and then by Saturday that I had a welt that was developing around where I had a small scratch on my inner right arm. (first pic) My theory here is that I accidentally got my fragrant lotion into the cut on Friday and it caused an allergic reaction, but I never reacted to it prior. Other than that I have zero clue.

By and through Sunday and into Monday I developed hives basically EVERYWHERE, up and down the backs of my legs behind the knees, on both my arms, on my torso, my neck and behind the ears. I dont have that many pictures from the first few days, so most of the pics are from today, Thursday, 5/6 days in.

Ive been taking a dose of Zyrtec every day since Monday, using cortisone lotion, cold compresses, cold showers and baths, trying to keep it covered without irritating it etc., but it feels like nothing helps. A lot of the hives have started to flatten and go down but have then turned into massive red inflamed splotches and Im still getting new ones popping up from scratching in sleep and things brushing / pressing against my skin. Plus all the wounds I have from the compulsive itching anyways.

I cant see my doctor until later next week. But I am debating urgent care. I sleep 4 hours or less because Im constantly waking up in burning itching pain and waking myself up scratching in my sleep and then it takes ages to relax again. And frankly I have health anxiety and am also concerned based on how it started and how my arm looks currently that there’s some kind of infection involved or something else going on. Going a week straight in constant pain and no sleep makes a mf go insane.

TLDR: Ongoing skin reaction progressively worse for a week, cant see doctor until next week, debating urgent care. Absolutely miserable lol

Just sharing a small win because despite struggling immensely this month with sales and overall just having more of a slow period with depop I’ve somehow managed to hit the top seller goals three months in a row 😭 I’ve been working my ass off to try to get there mainly because of the faster payouts and because despite having a decent following and selling for years I never in the past had enough of a drive to push for top seller on here, I would try and then end up giving up at some point because I had too much going on. I only just got this update on the app so I didn’t even think I was that close and I’m very excited now haha