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Since I began treatment for chronic hives, I have seen many, many changes in my symptoms. When I was on standard allergy medications, I experienced little relief. During flares that...

Do you ever feel like you wake up in a replay of the day before? That's how I felt for a long time when my hives started. It felt like...

My chronic hives story started the day I was born, or maybe even before that. All I know is I came into this world screaming in pain and bright red...

As I've written about, I was diagnosed with chronic hives in 2021. My journey up to that point involved a smattering of hives through my teens and twenties, then an...

I'm sure you've heard the expression, "Expect the unexpected," which applies to life with chronic hives. The word "chronic" is misleading. The hives aren't always there but decide to rear...

A few months ago, I started a new journey with the doctor. I believed very strongly that my hives were related to my B12 deficiency. The conversation with the doctor...

Recently I heard from a friend that she had this wonderful facial treatment done at a local spa and how she had put on an infrared mask to fight fine...

Now, I am going to go out on a very short limb and guess that most everyone has probably heard the phrase, "but there is nothing I can do for...

Welcome to my summer travel series. Today I want to talk about packing for a trip or vacation with chronic illness. Packing can be the most important part of the...

I have always struggled with my weight. As a six foot tall woman, the weight can normally balance itself out on my body without people really seeing the change. But...

I have needed prescription glasses, with bifocals,  since I was an eight-year-old child. Back then, I could pick out any frame that looked nice to me, and wear it without issue...

Hives are itchy. I mean really itchy! Miserably itchy. And what do we do when we itch? We scratch. And scratching feels good. Itching feels bad and scratching feels good...

Well over a weekend I got the brilliant idea to get a tan. I’m so pale, that i was determined to get myself a tan this spring and summer! So...

Have you ever felt that you are really tired? Exhausted? And sometimes don't know how to deal with the feeling? The past few months have been quite intense for me...

If you have chronic hives you know the feeling when you first are trying to balance treatments from biologics, antihistamines and other medications. You read up on everything that you...

I recently moved. While I was excited, it seems my hives were not! Not only did I move, but I ran out of my antihistamine. This unfortunately caused me a...

One of the most challenging areas of getting to know my chronic hives journey has been navigating when I have flare-ups and how to live normally. I think I took...

Continuing from my last article about Advocacy Burnout, here are more of my strategies and tips that have helped me. If you are looking for my previous article, you can...

Along my journey to diagnose and treat my chronic hives has been Dr. W. You can read more about him and how I was diagnosed. Dr. W is an allergy/immunology...

I can remember the uncertainty I felt when I finally got my chronic hives diagnosis. Part of me felt relieved that there was a name for what I was dealing...