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The same thing happened to me as a reaction to an antibiotic. There is seriously nothing worse than hives between your toes. I hope you're feeling better today!
@janie-janie: Wow I've taken Robaxacet before, but definitely did not have a reaction like this!
When I was 15 though I did go into anaphylatic shock from eating a caramel Klondike bar!! We were getting ready to go on vacation so my mom let me hit the tanning bed down the street every once in a while. I ate the Klondike bar on my walk there and by the time I had gotten in the tanning bad I felt hot and could feel my stomach turning. I turned the bed off and headed into the bathroom, but I was feeling so hot and dizzy I could barely walk. I called my mom to come pick me up.
By the time she had made it there I had collapsed in the parking lot and my air ways were constricted. All I remember is crying because of how bad it all hurt. When I got to the hospital they cut all my clothes off and the next thing you know I am waking up all doped up with my mom looking concerned next to the hospital bed. I guess I had started to go into cardiac arrest and they had injected me with so many drugs that I passed out.
What a scare! After that I learned about my strange perservative allergy. Haven't touched a Klondike bar since...
@west.coast.blonde: WOW! So glad you are okay. So it was a weird perservative?
Scary stuff ladies.
@RR: Yes, apparently it's a chemical compound that is also found in certain scented soaps and detergents as well as floor wax! Kind of crazy to think they put the same stuff in floor wax as in our Klondike bars... yuck! I've been pretty careful over the years and thankfully have only ended up with hives and swollen eyes like the PP and no more hospital trips!
@west.coast.blonde: whoa, that IS scary! glad you're ok!
and that is totally weird, the chemicals they put in food.
your story makes me wonder-- maybe it wasn't the active ingredient in robaxacet, maybe it was something else in those pills that did it. jeez, I'll never know!
@janie-janie: it's possible.
Be sure to mention this to the doctor next visit so he can add it to your allergy list.
@west.coast.blonde: kind of puts the whole "what would you do for a klondike bar" into perspective, right?
I'm sure you never heard that one before :)
@janie-janie: I would contact the company and find out which "fillers" that used in that medication as well and then tell your doctor (like helenberrycrunch).
@west.coast.blonde: Floor wax, oh man :( It is astonishing what they are allowed to use, I've recently started eating more raw foods only and am trying to avoid boxed stuff because it's so crazy what they are allowed to do! If it takes me longer to make homemade bread and everything else then, oh well - I'm willing to do it! So glad you are okay, that is so scary!
@janie-janie: Haha nope, never ;) It totally made me wonder though! I mean it's probably only small amounts of these ingredients, but it was still enough to produce a severe allergic reaction. I think we all probably take in a lot of chemicals that we have no idea about considering how much processed foods there are out there.
In your specific case with the Robaxacet it could have totally been an additive. It's hard to determine though. When I had my allergy testing done the first specialist couldn't pin point what had caused the reaction, meaning it wasn't something on the common list. It took a lot of time and many tests (plus a couple more break outs) to find out what was the cause. You should definitely get checked out for the active ingredient though because I imagine it would be common in other drugs.
I wonder if the active ingredient (methocarbamol) is related to opiates in any way? codeine makes me slightly itchy. I looked it up, methocarbamol is not an opoid, but still, I wonder if there is a connection.
my father-in-law was in the hospital, and they gave him morphine (also an opiate), and benadryl at the same time because they knew it made him itchy. so maybe it's a common thing with certain pain killers.
Oh man, that sucks. I once had a reaction like that to AXE body spray - broke out in hives EVERYWHERE. I made my husband stop wearing it.
Sidenote, but I can't believe you don't have Robaxacet in the states! That stuff is magic.
@Jillbean: we have the most annoying over the counter drug restrictions here. like, you can't get cough syrup with codeine without a prescription here-- and it is the ONLY thing that takes away a cough when I have a cold. I stock up every time I go to canada!
one time I went to vancouver and asked for tylenol w/ codeine. the pharmacist treated me rudely, like I was some american kid who wanted to just get high. that sucked.
@janie-janie: You guys have stuff that's prescription only here though. Like Aleve has just been recently available OTC, I used to have prescriptions for it. I'm not sure what else, but I'm guessing there's weird things on both sides of the border.
Glad to hear you're ok now!
@AB Bride: Aleve? it seems so benign. like not being able to get aspirin!
probably the thing that gets under my skin the most is the fact that in some states, pharmacists may elect to not sell plan B (the morning after pill) or birth control pills-- if they have a moral problem with it. ugh, don't even get me started on that one.
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sometimes my back knots up pretty badly, so my FI (who grew up in Canada) recommended a product he remembered from old TV commercials: Robaxacet. so the next time we went to Vancouver, I picked up a bottle.
well, I took some last night-- and then a short time later, I broke out in hives all over my entire body - even my eyelid and the bottoms of my feet! and my throat slightly closed up!!
I could tell it definitely not an emergency- if it was, my breathing would have gotten worse quickly, and it did not. I was pretty calm about it. I took some benadryl and then took a shower to relieve my skin. I felt better very quickly (but my eye is still swollen today, LOL!)
unfortunately, Robaxacet worked wonders for my back pain (it doesn't hurt any more, not even after it wore off), so I'm sad that I can't take it again!
anyway, just wanted to rant. that was WEIRD, it's never happened to me before! has this ever happened to anyone else here?