anyone have an allergic reaction?

BumbleBree · July 8, 2008

To the steri strips..for days now Ive had blisters itching all around my incisions I called my Dr. and he told me to put neosporin on it..but it seems not to be helping..Im gonna call again tommorow , but I'm wondering how many people had this problem..

ekkk it itches

Lindaw74 · July 8, 2008

OHHH MY GOSHHH did I ever have an allergic reaction. I thought my skin was going to burst into FLAMES!!!! I ripped my stereostrips off (LET ME TELL YOU THIS IS A BAD IDEA!!!!) and so I tried to hold my incision together with bandaids and then I had an allergic reaction to band aids. Oh Lord this was sooo bad. So, I called my surgeon. He looked at it, (btw I had tried neosporin, cortisone 10, and or a combination of both. This only made it MUCH WORSE...I even tried benadryl.) At the point I tried benadryl I was on my knees crying out to God it hurt so bad. My surgeon let me come in (how nice of him right?) and then wrote me a prescription for ..................

FREAKIN cortisone 10.... I called and said I needed something better, they said they would call it in and then never did. The next day I called my general practitioner who would do anything for me!! He called in a cream called Triamcinolome .1%. I had relief within 12 hours and it was almost gone within 24 hours. (Let me remind you it was fire engine red and I was on my knees crying out to God it hurt so bad!!!) So, it took my incisions about 2 weeks to heal from my mad ripping off and everything turned out fine but let me tell you - I feel your pain! Cut to the chase. Ask for the triamcinolome!

Linda

surgery 329/11 weeks later 280.

p.s. I know I sound crazy here, but the thought of that allergic reaction was pretty bad!!

Eeyore · July 9, 2008

Its a fairly common problem from what I can tell reading the boards, and it happened to me too. The cortizone they gave me didn't do jack diddly but I picked up benedryl extra strength anti itch gel at CVS and it worked amazingly well. It isn't made with cortizone though. Don't put it in the incisions but around it and you should be ok. You don't need to put a big glob on or anything either - I just put some on a cotton ball and made a circle around my incision and it was SO MUCH BETTER. Check with your doctor or nurse but you should be alright. Good Luck!