Help I broke out in hives

[JennyT 11]

Has anyone else broken out in hives? I got my sleeve 9/29/14. Dr has allowed soft foods. I am taking slow but have broken out. I have had anything unusual to eat. Any advise?

[sunflowerchild 146]

I broke out in hives 1 month after my surgery. They never found out for sure what caused it, but it was suspected that I had a serum sickness like reaction to one of the antibiotics my surgeon gave me when I was under anesthesia before he did the surgery.

[VSGAnn2014 12,992]

I'm 8 weeks post-op.

I didn't break out in hives, but until a week ago I did have some pretty big bumps (maybe 15-20) that showed up on my arms, legs, chest and even face. They itched a lot and reminded me of enormous mosquito bites.

I finally called my surgeon's office and spoke to the long-time bariatric PA who's well educated about WLS phenomena. She said my maladies weren't familiar to her, but then said that the skin is our biggest stress-absorbing organ. She told me to take Zyrtec or other allergy meds and that they'd probably go away.

I wound up not taking any meds. And this is the week that the bumps went away.

Just another WLS oddity, I guess.

[Annie68 27]

I had a horrible case of hives a few weeks post-op! Ended up in the ER because of them . They gave me IV steroids and Benadryl, then sent me home on oral- nothing helped.

After a week of misery, a doctor prescribed oral Zantac and Certizine- hives went away within 12 hours!! No problems since May .

The Dr suspected the hives were a reaction from the Thiamine (B1) shot they gave me 5 days before the breakout. He said people react to the red dye in the injection.

Edited October 14, 2014 by Annie68