(Copied from my Live Journal)

Well! The past few weeks have been interesting to say the least. It turns out that I DON'T have an under-active thyroid gland (yay)- though I could still develop it. Stress was simply making my body think it was sick (I was showing all the symptoms of hypo-active thyroid disease). So, the doctor decided to try to treat my stress/anxiety/depression with Zoloft. (You know. The drug with the commercial with those bouncing white blob things.) Turns out that I'm severely allergic to Zoloft! Oh noes! Last saturday I saw some red patches of skin but I didn't think much of it because my skin dries out all the time. The next day I have this horrible itching rash all over me.

"Okay." I say. "I'll go to the doctor tomorrow." I do and she confirms I'm allergic to Zoloft. The rash seems to be pretty much gone on monday. Right? Wrong. Today I wake up and my eyes and lips are SWOLLEN. Great. On top of that, I'm having trouble breathing and the rash has spread to the palms of my hands and swollen there too. So, I stay home from school and call the doctor at 8 AM when they open. I need to go down there again.

I go down at 11 AM when she is able to see me and they almost had to send me to the ER. My throat and lungs were swelling and they had to give me a steroid to stop the swelling. I almost pass out so they have me lay down. Joy for shots in the hip! But it helps and I'm able to breathe better after a while. I'm prescribed 4 anti-histamines that I have to take until the prescription runs out. (So Zoloft is flushed out of my system and I don't start swelling again. If I do I have to go to the ER.)

Yay.