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
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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
Today, I got a paper cut while opening my box of Band-Aids. 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 cut myself on a band-aid box, while trying to get one out for another cut. FML
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
Today, I learned the hard way that I'm allergic to a particular brand of tampon. FML
Today, I walked too close to a first-aid kit sticking out of a wall at work, and it cut my arm. Laughing at the irony, I opened it to get a band aid out. It was empty. FML
Today, I found out that I am allergic to one of the preservatives that they put in aloe. I found this out after I put some on a severe sunburn I have. Not only am I sunburned, but now I am severely itchy as well. FML
Today, as I peeled a now soggy Band-Aid off my finger, I discovered that in the dim light of yesterday evening, I had, with great anxiety, wrapped it around the wrong finger. FML
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
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Top comments
Marakara 0
A band-aid making your condition worse? That is a textbook example of situational irony. Quit being douchebags, especially when you're wrong.
yarbles 3
put some alcohol on that bitch and move on
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Comments (198)
sammywhits 0
I had a frien allergic to band aid. it's not the bandaids it's the latix in them... try some without latex
sammywhits 0
it's not wierd a lot of people are allergic to not the band aids but the latex in them. try some without latex
margie4peace 11
I am allergic to bandaids and not latex. Bandaids pull my skin right off.
ndanick 4
Thats not a rash.... thats just the lighter skin that happens to every1 when they take off a band aid... Dumb ****
sexirene 0
its not that your allergic to the band aid you just left it on to long I'm a medical assistant happens all the time
TheIrishJaneDoe 9
Some people are genuinely allergic, though. I have scars on my back from an allergic reaction to the tape they used on the post-surgical dressing. The dressing was changed daily. When I complained they said something like what you've said, and within three days I had blisters big enough to scar.
TheIrishJaneDoe 9
Should've added this: I know it was an allergic reaction because when I got home and my husband took over the dressing duty, he bought a different type of tape. That kind was fine.
chasin_butterfli 0
I had the same thing happen Jane. My chart has a big orange latex allergy sticker on it (not to mention my arm band) and they used butterfly strips to close an insicion. Leaves a nice scar.
margie4peace 11
It's TOO long. You have a two year MA degree and don't know basic grammar? Great...
Primus_fml 0
Yes, that's ironic. That doesn't make it an FML
jleon 0
not ironic. but this should be on mlia, not fml.
catatonicsleep 17
I'm allergic to them, just get hypoallergenic ones, not that big of a deal... Could also be what 16 said, if you're allergic the reaction will be within a short space of time, if you left it on a while and then noticed then you just left it on too long.
DidHeJustSayThat 0
I'm speechless if this is irony..... atleast now you can say.. hey! I'm alergic to band aids :).. throw alergies to latex gloves in there and you can avoid hospital visits all together lolz
Lunatik89 0
u should put another one across it and make a X then it looks cooler lol
linzb752 0
how can you be allergic to bandaids?
51194 3
I'm allergic to 'band-aids' or 'plasters' what we call them in Ireland:) I think it has something to do with sensitive skin and the sticky glue? It stings really bad:(