I almost died...

I dunno if anyone else has had similar experience..

I was at a shop the other day trying on clothes, and as i walked into the fitting room, i almost died...

... Died from a revoltingly horrific and gut-wrenching stench!!! What kind of human being can leave that sort of deadly odour?! Geeeeeeeeeeeez! It ruins other people's shopping experience!!

I mean come on!! Can't people smell their own b.o?? Or have they simply grown immune to it??

Itchy & scratchy..

It started around 3 days ago, whilst i was doing night shift at work.. I noticed my scalp started getting very itchy. I also found several mosquito-bite-like marks on my neck and on my arm. I didnt take too much notice of it.

The next day I found myself itching literally from head to toe!! Red marks and these massive welts appeared everywhere! I immediately thought of it as an allergic reaction to something I must have eaten. Looking back, i did eat a packet of chilli Red Rock chips and some ice cream at work. I ate chilli stuff before, but never have I had any allergic reaction to it.

it doesn't look as bad in the pics..
but trust me i have heaps more really ugly allergy photos i decided no to post up

I showed my parents the marks.. My dad even suggested it could be chicken pox or even bed bugs! :S. And so i even changed all my bed sheets and half-cleaned my room. Bed bug count: zero.

I honestly thought it would just go away in a day or two. But it got worse yesterday.. I tried all measures to stop the itching. I took a shower at least a couple of times!! I ice packed the reddened and itchy areas to try and numb my skin. But to no avail. It got to the point where prob 70% of my body was plagued with these red welt type marks. I literally felt my scalp and my whole body was burning! ARGH!

I went to the doctor and he immediately diagnosed it as urticaria (also referred to as hives) and was definitely NOT bed bugs! phew! (thanks alot pa! i think he jsut told me it was bed bugs so i would clean my room. lol). So anyway, i was just told to take Zyrtec. It helped relieve the itchiness for several hours and I noticed some of the swelling and redness went down.

But now as we speak, the redness and itchiness has sprung up again! And I'm experiencing a bit of chest tightness, but no difficulty in breathing (yet!). This sucks! I know I shouldn't scratch but its jsut so damn itchy and annoying! I'll be showing up to work tomorrow with red marks everywhere! Let's jsut hope it doesn't appear on my face. Thanks alot allergy!! Grrrr!