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I went in for strep throat which I get about 3 times a year because of taking an immune suppressant. 2 out of the 3 times it goes away on it's own within 2 days (it never gets off the ground). The other 1 time it needs an antibiotic and it's gone with 24 hours. Every single time, 20+ cases, this is what it does.

If I DON'T take the antibiotic the strep throat keeps getting more and more severe until I can't sleep because of pure fire throat, open puss sores and it spreds to my ears, head and eyes. The last time I let it do this I went full deaf in one ear and 80% deaf in the other. It took two months for that to go away. Also it takes about a month + half for the strep to go away.

I've NEVER had hives. The last time I can remember feeling like this was with chicken pox, and I've never been able to remember that fully until now.

Day 1 after the throat swab my always dry strep throat turned into a fever of 103 and a runny nose that fully blocked the nose. Day 2 I had full body hives. The itching was so bad I had to wear gloves and socks to stimulate the hands and feet from needing CONSTANT scratching so I could go to sleep.

Right now I can barely type because I'm about to freak out with the itching demand and throw something.

I FUCKING HATE OUR MEDICAL SYSTEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND THEY NEVER GAVE ME THE ANTI BIOTIC! I HAD TO USE MY LAST REMAINING SPARE!

I went in for strep throat which I get about 3 times a year because of taking an immune suppressant. 2 out of the 3 times it goes away on it's own within 2 days (it never gets off the ground). The other 1 time it needs an antibiotic and it's gone with 24 hours. Every single time, 20+ cases, this is what it does. If I DON'T take the antibiotic the strep throat keeps getting more and more severe until I can't sleep because of pure fire throat, open puss sores and it spreds to my ears, head and eyes. The last time I let it do this I went full deaf in one ear and 80% deaf in the other. It took two months for that to go away. Also it takes about a month + half for the strep to go away. I've NEVER had hives. The last time I can remember feeling like this was with chicken pox, and I've never been able to remember that fully until now. Day 1 after the throat swab my *always* dry strep throat turned into a fever of 103 and a runny nose that fully blocked the nose. Day 2 I had *full body* hives. The itching was so bad I had to wear gloves and socks to stimulate the hands and feet from needing CONSTANT scratching so I could go to sleep. Right now I can barely type because I'm about to freak out with the itching demand and throw something. I FUCKING HATE OUR MEDICAL SYSTEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND THEY NEVER GAVE ME THE ANTI BIOTIC! I HAD TO USE MY LAST REMAINING SPARE!

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Because of colitis I keep very strict tabs / watch of everything I eat and get exposed to see what upsets it or not. With strep I've had like literally 20+ times and I've never had this play out. The hives in particular, I've never had this like this before, full body, 48 hours straight, can't even sleep, scratched my hands so badly the first night they were bruised when I woke up, had to use gloves and socks just to go to sleep.

It's possible the fever came from a CMV flare up.... The runny nose from a mucinex throat spray I got, and the hives from some pre frozen lasagna I ate. But I've NEVER gotten hives before. Now full body 48 hours so bad I can't even sleep? Also I'm pretty sure the scratching was before I ate that lasagna.

Hives that bad stink of a new auto immune illness / "allergy".

Benadryl worked perfectly which suggests it's an "allergy" type thing and I'll have to see if it comes back over the next day and start doing food testing if it does.