Hives and severe swelling during pregnancy – Prednizone?
Tuesday, August 06, 2002 Question: I’ve started having hives and severe swelling during my pregnancy. That was 8 years ago. I had the hives under control for 4 years by taking Zyrtec once daily (at first I was on Zyrtec, Volmax and Cimitidine, but I slowly weaned myself off of them). I was doing fine for many years until recently I ran out of medicine and thought I was doing well enough to go without my Zyrtec. I was fine for two weeks and then they started to come back. Now they are getting worse and my face and lips are starting to swell on and off. The Zyrtec is not working, it’s been almost a month and it won’t help anymore. I am wondering if it is hormone related though, since it all started during my third month of pregnancy with my 4th child, my daughter, the doctor had me take benadryl and had me try prednizone, however I only took them for two days because it made me worse and I was scared to take prednizone because I was afraid it would hurt my baby. Then a year later I had a
