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10-14-2008, 09:38 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: MN
Posts: 742
| |  ahhhhhh make it stop!! D:
I'm having an allergic reaction to the Benzaclin I got for my acne--I put some on last night in a few spots and now the whole left side of my face is red and itchy!!! What do I do?! I'm supposed to go to work later too! D:
I used it one or two days a while ago but I got new pimples where I put it within 24 hours so I quit using it until I got another one in the middle of my left cheek yesterday.
*scratch scratch scratch*
I have my next dermatologist appointment Thursday morning at least. I've only ever had one allergic reaction in my life and I don't know what that was even from but I broke out in a rash all over my body.
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T1 dx'd 6.21.07
Lantus+Novolog
BS test 5-6x/day, AccuChek Aviva
A1c 4/14/09: 7.0 
10/6/08: 6.9 
7/1/08: 7.0 
4/3/08: 7.3   Tomorrow is another day... |
10-14-2008, 09:42 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
Posts: 9,311
| | You can try some benadryl to stop the itching. I would just wash your face and leave it alone. How frustrating, Dar. Maybe calamine lotion (that will be attractive)  to calm it.
__________________  Nancy Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa diagnosed type 1 October 1986
currently using Medtronic MiniMed
paradigm 715 CLEAR  |
10-14-2008, 09:48 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: MN
Posts: 742
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Originally Posted by notme  You can try some benadryl to stop the itching. I would just wash your face and leave it alone. How frustrating, Dar. Maybe calamine lotion (that will be attractive) to calm it. | Thanks, I will try the Benadryl! I don't have anything else and plus I can't use anything on my face. I did take a shower and wash it this morning.
I called the dermatology clinic and left a message.
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T1 dx'd 6.21.07
Lantus+Novolog
BS test 5-6x/day, AccuChek Aviva
A1c 4/14/09: 7.0
10/6/08: 6.9
7/1/08: 7.0
4/3/08: 7.3 Tomorrow is another day... |
10-14-2008, 09:51 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 10,080
| | | Try applying some hydrocortisone cream to you face to help with the itching.
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T2, diagnosed 8/31/06.
Metformin 500 mg twice daily
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Lower carb dieter (approx. 75 total carbs/day, more on weekends), taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets
Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3
05/08: 6.2 (after dealing with shingles & bronchiti)
2/09: 5.5 |
10-14-2008, 10:30 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: MN
Posts: 742
| | | OK, I took two Benadryl, and I just put on some aloe gel. Now it's mostly just red and hot. Don't have any hydrocortisone.
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T1 dx'd 6.21.07
Lantus+Novolog
BS test 5-6x/day, AccuChek Aviva
A1c 4/14/09: 7.0
10/6/08: 6.9
7/1/08: 7.0
4/3/08: 7.3 Tomorrow is another day... |
10-14-2008, 12:10 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Holland, Michigan USA
Posts: 895
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Originally Posted by dar917 Thanks, I will try the Benadryl! I don't have anything else and plus I can't use anything on my face. I did take a shower and wash it this morning.
I called the dermatology clinic and left a message. | They have a clear bendadryl lotion also.
__________________ As always YMMV! High Fructose Corn Syrup = Weapons Grade Sugar Diagnosed: July 3 2008
A1C- 7/10/08= 10.6  11/17/08 = 5.6  5/29/09= 5.3
triglycerides - 7/15/08 = 192 11/17/2008 = 84
HDL - 7/15/08 = 46 11/17/2008 = 74
LDL - 7/15/08 = 106 11/17/2008 = 80
Low Carb Diet (15-50g/day)
Metformin ER 500mg 2x day
Neurontin 800mg 3x day
Meloxicam 15mg 1x day (arthritis)
Multivitamin, B12, fish oil
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10-14-2008, 06:45 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: RURAL NSW AUSTRALIA
Posts: 886
| |  Hi Dar917,
If you have some rolled oats place dried oats in a old stocking and tie it up. Wet this and rub on itchy bits. The starch will sooth the rash.
It's a really old fashioned thing but I swear by it. At work we sometimes get kids with bad rashes and I'm known for my rolled oats baths
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Meds Byetta 10mgs twice day Started on 1st Feb 2008) Working well for me
Humalog 3 x day
Lantus daily
Metformin 1gm 3x a day
Aticand 32mg daily
Propranalol 40 mgs 2 x a day
150 mg aspirin daily (I need to have shares in my chemist shop) |
10-14-2008, 09:36 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: MN
Posts: 742
| | | Thanks for the good ideas guys! It's better now but still a bit itchy. I went in to work an hour late. The nurse from the dermatology clinic just said stop using it. No **** sherlock? And the Dr will look at it on Thursday.
I'll take another Benadryl or two before I go to bed; I'd put more aloe on but I don't like to sleep with anything on my face.
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T1 dx'd 6.21.07
Lantus+Novolog
BS test 5-6x/day, AccuChek Aviva
A1c 4/14/09: 7.0
10/6/08: 6.9
7/1/08: 7.0
4/3/08: 7.3 Tomorrow is another day... |
10-14-2008, 09:39 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
Posts: 9,311
| | | Eeesh Dar. How about calamine lotion? That usually will take the "ouch" or "itch" out of a rash.
__________________ Nancy Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa diagnosed type 1 October 1986
currently using Medtronic MiniMed
paradigm 715 CLEAR |
10-14-2008, 10:01 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: MN
Posts: 742
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Originally Posted by notme Eeesh Dar. How about calamine lotion? That usually will take the "ouch" or "itch" out of a rash. | Don't have any. I'm cheap, and this doesn't happen to me usually.
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T1 dx'd 6.21.07
Lantus+Novolog
BS test 5-6x/day, AccuChek Aviva
A1c 4/14/09: 7.0
10/6/08: 6.9
7/1/08: 7.0
4/3/08: 7.3 Tomorrow is another day... |
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