By Izabella Motta Rosa de Andrade
My story with hives started when I was 11 years old.
One day I went to sleep and the next I woke up with my leg full of hives.
I didn’t know what it was, it passed…
The next day, when it started to get dark, I started to feel symptoms.
And it was like that for almost a year!
Then it stopped. Out of the blue. I thought I was cured of whatever that was!
One day I took a medicine with dipyrone that I always took, and boom, angioedemas!
I took the allergy test and it confirmed the drug allergy. Beauty, right...Just don't take medicine and I won't have any more – that's what I thought.
But then out of nowhere...they appeared again!
Until in 2017, I started having frequent episodes that didn't improve with any antihistamine. But in 2018 I had chikungunya and the treatment ended up inhibiting the symptoms due to the corticosteroids. But as soon as I stopped taking it, guess who came back and never left? Themselves!
And then in my search to try to understand, I discovered UCE.
One day I sleep well, the next I wake up all blistered. And I'm living like this…..ah, now I'm 32!!!
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