Today I went to the allergist. Of course they asked many of the same questions, any change in diet, any change in laundry det, any change in shampoos, soaps etc.  They say we will have to do allergy testing but the first thing is to get the hives under control.  He has put me on 8 days of Prednisone and told me to take 2 claritin every morning, 2 zyrtec every day at lunch, and 2 Hydroxyzine 3 times a day.  He has given me a doctors note for school for the whole week because he said all of this medicine will make me very sleepy.

They also took a lot of blood. I usually do ok when they take blood but today I almost passed out.  They had to lay me down for a while. My blood pressure was very low for a while.  They took blood because the doctor wants to make sure something else isn't going on, like some type of infection or something else.  I will not be able to run or do basketball this week. We told the doctor I had been training (running) for a half marathon and trying to play basketball.  He asked if either of those things seemed to cause the hives to break out, we told him we did not think so but that it's hard to tell what was causing it. He said sometimes, over excursion or over heating can trigger break outs as well as stress, or an allergic reaction to a food or substance you come in contact with.  His first reaction to the training for the half marathon was that it might have to be put off until next year.  Then we explained to him that the senior project was a mandatory project for graduation and he said well then, I recommend to limit the running to  minimal and not to over do it with basketball until we figure out what is going on. I can not do any exercise this week, but he said I would not feel like it anyway, I would be sleeping mostly.