Hives!!! Has **anyone** ever gotten rid of them, whether by prescription or home remedy???!!!?

A doctor prescribed me 10 days' worth of the prednisone steroids, and the hives were beginning to subside, but by the time the prescription was done and I took it all, they came back with a vengeance!

I have also been told to take Zinc to boost my immune system in hopes it would help make the hives go away, and also vitamin b6, which I have been doing. And oatmeal lotion. Does anyone else have any other suggestions? I am really tired of them and have put up with them for months. I know other people have probably had them longer than I have, but I'm just tired of it and any advice or success stories of getting rid of the hives would truly be appreciated!

I have been taking over the counter antihistamines, and I have tried switching between other otc antihistamines but it's getting to the point where my body is immuned to them. I just really want to get rid of the hives for good.

I am female, age 26 if that makes any difference.

It's not from anything I've been eating or any new laundry soap or anything like that. There have been days I literally didn't eat anything at all just because I was busy or didn't feel like eating (but no I'm not anorexic, I am back to eating now). But those couple of days I didn't eat, I still broke out with the hives really bad.

Hives are a symptom, not a condition. Your body is hyper reacting to something in your environment. The cause may be clear (like contact with wool, pollen, certain chemicals) or it could be something as hard to determine as an allergy to sulphates in food. My son had a very bad case of hives (age 4) when we moved to the Midwest. We tried everything to no avail. In desperation we tried a technique called NAET (you can find a practitioner in your area at http://www.naet.com/) and he was cured after three treatments. The hives did recur a couple of years later but we went to the practitioner again and he has been hive-free since (4 years)

Best of luck

I had to pay $100 to get a hive taken away. They guy has an apiary.

Could there be something you are ingesting that you may be allergic to? If you continue to use the allergen, the hives aren't going to go away. If the OTC medications aren't working, I would suggest getting an appointment with a specialist and get tested for allergies.

just for the itching of the hives you could put calomine lotion on them,has your doctor ever prescribed benadryl tabs temporarily until you find out what your allergic to. See an allergist and get a scratch test you need a solution

Have you tried doxepin yet? It's an antideppresant used off-label to treat stubborn chronic hives. Ask your doctor. It will make you drowsy. Do a google search of doxepin and hives.

Children's Benadryl liquid, bubblegum flavor. Don't know why, but it works better than anything else I've tried.

You should really find out the cause of the hives though.