torn between not okay and maybe kind of cute ([info]kalpurna) wrote,
@ 2009-07-02 19:39:00
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So my life is really boring right now, to the point that this morning I literally wrote an LJ entry about my skin, and now I kind of can't believe I'm actually going to post it.

My skin has decided to remind me not to get too comfortable with it, and now I have a millimeter-wide series of hives running along the place where my hair tie bit into my wrist last night. Here are some fun facts about my freakish skin:

- The worst hives I've ever gotten were ping-pong ball sized and covered my entire hips, thighs, and ass. They came up in response to the awful crime of wearing stiff-ish jeans on a cold day. REALLY.

- I also get hives, as I did today, in response to too-tight elastic. If I wear underwear that doesn't fit I end up with a perfect outline of the waistband and leg holes drawn in itchy welts.

- I used to get tiny round hives on my wrists in the morning between 8:15 and 8:30, but, and this is the catch, only when I had math class. I would have thought I was faking, too, but it's hard to fake hives. We never figured out what was causing this one.

- Meanwhile, it is very, very difficult to get my skin to bruise. Even when I get hit by something quite hard, the general response of my skin is to feel sore for a couple of days without any visual difference and then to get that yellow shadow normal people get when their bruise is fading away.

- But if you lightly pass the edge of a credit card across my arm, I get a red swollen welt. People think I have a skin disease five minutes after I've scratched an itch on my neck.

LOOK, EITHER I DON'T POST OR I POST ABOUT SHIT LIKE THIS.

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[info]loveyouallwrong
2009-07-03 12:45 am UTC (link)
I was trying to think of something to say in response to this post, and all I've got is "God it would suck if she was into bdsm."

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[info]kalpurna
2009-07-03 12:49 am UTC (link)
I would have to stop and take some Benadryl, and then I would fall asleep. One time I had to take two before a class and after class I found out people were running bets on whether my head would actually hit my notebook or not. SEXYYYY

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[info]absenteye
2009-07-03 01:35 am UTC (link)
Man, I have the kind of skin that if I scratch it even a little I look like some kind of weird blushing leper, idek. Also I am made of clay, my skin dries out so fast if I don't moisturize twice a day, I kind of feel like a mummy!

Hey, did math class stress you out? Because it might be stress related! Bodies are fucking weirdass machines, so who knows?

also lol delurking because of skin /o\

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[info]impertinence
2009-07-03 01:44 am UTC (link)
You know what's going to happen is you're going to die in a mudslide and puzzle archeologists years from now. with your weird mummified skin.

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[info]strobelighted
2009-07-03 02:05 am UTC (link)
make me a sandwich

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[info]just_katarin
2009-07-03 02:11 am UTC (link)
I get cold hives. It's a true fucking story. Like, it's so weird because who gets hives from the cold but I do.

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[info]marksykins
2009-07-03 02:38 am UTC (link)
Moving to Chicago's going to work out so great for you. :D

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[info]just_katarin
2009-07-03 04:18 am UTC (link)
Inorite? But... mostly I get hives from cold water? Except when I get them from cold air... winter's gonna be AWESOME.

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[info]marksykins
2009-07-03 02:43 am UTC (link)
I don't get hives except when I'm having really bad allergic reactions, but I must have gotten all of your bruising powers because I bruise from a strong wind. Right now I have a mystery bruise on my right thumb. Who bruises their thumb?

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[info]neverneverfic
2009-07-03 03:01 am UTC (link)
i thought i was the only one who got hairband hives. i also get hives when doing the universal precaution glove takey offy thing because it involves so much biting into the skin with your nails while wearing a chemical-y glove. (that may have been incoherant. i have had a lot of wine) i also get them around my sock line when the socks are wool and too tight.

i do not have them as severly as you (credit cards are not a problem) but i bruise really damn easily (especially when my iron is low, which is a lot because i don't take good care of that shit)

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[info]violin_road
2009-07-03 03:12 am UTC (link)
I bruise like a motherfucker, but this is largely because I do shit like WALK INTO CONCRETE WALLS which I nearly did today before my co-worker was like PROTIP LADY, STOP WALKING BACKWARD /o\ /o\ /o\

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[info]shihadchick
2009-07-03 07:05 am UTC (link)
...oh my god, that's hives? (No, really, I've never really known what they are, we clearly call them something else here.) HANNAH I GET THAT TOO. With the elastic, at least, and especially on my legs and arms. I don't fucking bruise hardly at all either (I have had huge drunk guys LAND ON MY ARM on the rail and I can feel bruising but it hardly ever shows visibly), but if I, like, scratch my arm? Raised welt that lasts for ages. People are always asking me if I need calamine or something when I have scratched an itch, let alone an actual bite. *is sorta fascinated that there's slight overlap between what happens to you and me since I never really thought about it much, other than to go 'wtf skin CALM DOWN OKAY'*

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[info]bkm5191
2009-07-03 01:24 pm UTC (link)
wow and I thought my skin was fucked up.

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[info]jess_darkwater
2009-07-03 03:11 pm UTC (link)
:( you poor thing! I get mystery bruises and have been asked before if I was being abused at home because the backs of my legs were purple from falling off my pony once. Hives sound painful :(

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