Medication side effects.
Boy, are they sometimes a pain in the ass.
Over the past few years, I have had some side effects to the many medications I have been on. I've put on weight. My face has broken out like a teenager. I have had bleeding issues. Bruises magically appeared after barely hitting an object. I've been tired and I've been wide awake.
But most recently, I have been itchy. And while some may think this isn't an awful side effect, it is top ten most uncomfortable thing I have had to go through.
Seriously, it's that bad.
Last night, Dad and I tried to figure out what makes the itching start. It's not like I have dry skin, or that I haven't been putting lotion on to try to prevent it. Instead the itching continues, to a point where I let out an aggravated sigh, wishing it would just stop. I'm sure most people I'm with don't notice it unless I complain about wanting to crawl out of my skin.
But every time my nails go to scratch my arm, I realize with annoyance that it's starting again.
Rarely do I go online to see what my different symptoms may mean. Last time I did that, I sat in my room one morning, crying, because I thought I would need surgery to get good old Henry out. For this reason alone, I don't like to diagnosis myself from the internet. The itching has gotten SO annoying, that I broke my own rules and turned to good old Google to find out the connection of my current problem and Remicade.
And I found out I wasn't the weird one. This wonderful side effect has happened to other people, with no explanation of why it occurred, or how to stop it from coming. Instead, there were people's own remedies, and their accounts of mystifying the doctor.
To me, this is a blessing.
When I was explaining to Dr. I last week about my itching, he had never heard of such side effects and that left me feeling defeated. Once again I was the only weird one with this problem. But thanks to Google, I found others just like me. And that's refreshing.
Known side effects suck. Unknown side effects are even worse, and it's nice to know that I'm not the only one experience the problem of non stop itching
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