Today, I was riding a longboard down a hill and I fell off. I was all scraped up so I made sure to clean my wounds and put bandages on them. Turns out I'm allergic to the glue on the bandages and I have itchy hives all over and around my open wounds. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I got a bug bite on my boob. I scratched it so much it started bleeding so I put a bandaid on it. Turns out the band-aid had latex in it and I got an allergic reaction to it. The bug bite is still bleeding and the top half of my boob is swollen. FML
Today, I was riding my scooter at a skate park. I was wearing a helmet, but I got hot, so I took it off. Within the next minute, I fell off my scooter and cut my head open. I had to get four stitches. FML
Today, I discovered that I'm allergic to band-aids. I now have a band-aid shaped rash around a tiny cut on my leg. Oh the irony. FML
Today, I fell off my bike. I grazed my knee, shin, thigh, hip, collar bone, shoulder and face. I also strained my wrist. As I was wheeling my bike away, I stung my other leg on nettles. FML
Today, I decided to take a relaxing shower. My face mask made my face break out in hives. While exfoliating, my nipples became chafed. Then I slipped and cut myself while shaving. FML
Today, I was riding my motorcycle on the highway and wearing all of my gear - boots, gloves, jacket, and full-face helmet. Somehow a bee found the only spot not covered on my body and stung my neck. I'm allergic to bees. FML
Today, I sliced my arm open on the weekend, patched it with a fabric bandaid. Had an allergic reaction to the bandaid, arm now swollen, blistering and keeping-me-awake itchy. Pharmacist's advice? "Oooh, that looks bad. Better put a bandaid on that." FML
Today, I had an allergic reaction to my deodorant. My armpits wouldn't stop itching, and by the time my shift was over, they were raw and bloody. FML
Today, I have scratched both my ankles so hard and for so long that they started bleeding, and they still itch. I have no idea what I’m allergic to. FML
Today, I finally went to have blood taken for an allergy test I really need. Afterwards, I had an allergic reaction to the bandaid they used on my arm. FML
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Linesksc 0
ouch... It enought that they get itchy when they start to heal, i can't imagine having hives while they are still raw...
drebunny 0
or it's a recently developed allergy. allergies can do that. A few years ago I developed an allergy to Neosporin that id never had before
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zeppelin9000 0
YDI for longboarding. Get back to the ocean you hippy.
anniemeece 23
I've allergic to this one type of bandaid too! Luckily I found out with something minor like a paper cut instead of huge scrapes. That really sucks for you. D=
NotNegativeNews 0
Oh god that happened to me once with one of those fabric elastine bandages. I had a bandaid shaped scar for years.
Swankz 0
dont feel too bad, i have the same allergy and for the idiots saying they should have known, you can develop allergies to basically anything at ANY point in life i didnt find out till i was like 12, its annoying because im actualy even allergic to a lot of the hypo-allergenic ones because they mostly worry about the latex not the adhesive
anniesaysbueno 0
im sorry. thanks for having a decent FML though. :D
Postlude 1
#10 - Allergies often "set in" around puberty or late teens. Me and my mother both developed meat allergies around 17-20 years old. I still miss bacon. :(
MarianaDskotek 0
D: ouch. i hope you at least got to bomb some gnarly hills. LOL.
wellchit 0
How does this work out for you, have you never used a band aid in your life before? Maybe you used a different brand, but surely you've used several different types before, I assume your in your mid Teens, so this is quite perplexing.
missgreenrawr 0
im allergic to the glue too
jessicasquash 0
the same thing happened to me! someone told me it might be the humidity affecting it, too, but i dont know. lol and ive used band-aids my whole lifeeee :/