MS Related ?

Symptoms and treatments
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Hello

Over the past couple of months I’ve been experiencing hives appearing all over my body on a daily basis. I’ve been to see my GP and had numerous blood test including for common allergies and all have come back clear.

My GP prescribed an antihistamine Fexofenadine 180mg but the spots and welts keep appearing , although they are less itchy and disappear after a couple of hours.

I asked my MS nurse if it could be due to my DMT Copaxone , but as I’ve been taking this for over 3 years , they say not.

Both my nurse and GP don’t think it’s MS related.

The only thing I can link it to is heat as it’s always worse straight after a shower or if I’m hot in bed.

I’ve not changed anything I’m using or any medications but something is causing it.

I’ve noticed the palms of my hands have started going bright red and hot which also happens with my ears which feel like they are burning.

My neuro dismissed these symptoms as not MS related.

Funnily enough my sister who also has MS gets hot bright red palms.

I know in the great scheme of things it’s pretty trivial but I just wondered if anyone else experiences anything similar.

On another matter , I’ve been waiting for my brain , c spine , and thoracic MRI scan results since June ! Hopefully my Neurologistwill have them before my annual telephone consultation with him on the 14th Oct. Fingers crossed :crossed_fingers: all is unchanged.

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Scans and DMT
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Hives sound comical, but they’re no joke, are they? I had an outbreak many years ago and the GP gave me cetirizine and that worked for me, but I wouldn’t have like to have been left with no improvement and no answers. I was probably on Avonex at the time, but had been on it for a while before the sudden and unexplained onset of hives. They were round my neck and throat as far as I can remember, and neither pretty nor pleasant. I hope that you get to the bottom of it or at least find something that reliably works to damp down your reaction to whatever is bothering your system.

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Thank you for your comments Alison.

I think I will speak to my Copaxone nurse , as a last port of call , as I have read that it can cause hives.

I think lots of medications can and it’s an embarrassing bag of medications that I pick up from the chemist!

As a child of the 60s I was brought up to only take medication or see the GP if you have your leg hanging off :blush:

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Sounds like a heat rash to me, i use to take them year’s ago, worse one’s where when i would have had a bath. Thankfully i don’t suffer from heat rash anymore.

Hope you get it sorted and find out what it is. Oh try turning the shower down see if it helps out of curiosity. :cold_face:

Mac