I just dont know if I’m mad or sad!! I am allergic to my own oestrogen (had really bad urticaria attacks) & had full hysterectomy 9 yrs ago…that stopped all related reactions until around the time I found my lump when all the rashes etc came back. This was diagnosed as bc in june 06 & I had lumpectomy etc. there was also some node involvement (3 out of 29 i think). I had a recurrence of the urticaria rashes during chemo but nothing too bad. Since then not a thing until a few weeks ago when the urticaria flared up quite badly.
Am I mad to link this with the breast cancer?? I am spending 50% of the time telling myself it has nothing to do with it & the other 50% convinced the cancer is back. What makes this worse is that I am out of the country until October & dread the thoght of trying to explain it all to a doctor who doesnt know my history.
Should I be worried or am I just panicking over nothing?
Hi shazakaz
Just reading your thread, you say you had a flare up of uticaria during chemo. This suggests you may get flare ups when you are immuno suppressed. Of course, you are thinking that you have a recurrence of BC that has caused this, but it could be a whole lot of other reasons including another allergy or infection which would cause a dip in your immune system or a response to an allergen or pathogen and hence the hives recurring. Try and think what it could be first without jumping to the worst possible scenario. You are obviously quite sensitive to changes in the metabolism.