WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for February, 1998: Re: Itching and PUPPS

Re: Itching and PUPPS

From: Angela (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:31:05 -0600 (CST)

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At Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Susan wrote: >
>I've PUPPP when I was 33 weeks pregnant - the itchiness was so
>unbearable till I could hardly sleep at night. As my doctor advised me
>that the condition usually resolved after delivery, I eagerly awaited
>for my labour to begin. Our daughter is now 9 weeks old and I still
>have the itchiness.I've tried cortisone cream,antihistamines and oral
>steroids - none of this worked. As some says that it is hormone related
>I've stopped breastfeeding a week ago in order to balance the hormones
>in my body.However the itchiness persist - do you have any other
>suggestion?

Susan, I had PUPPS also in my last trimester. It was making me quite, *quite* crazy. I looked like I'd been assaulted by a horde of mad mosquitoes. Like you, I tried everything - every kind of medicated cream available Over The Counter, oatmeal baths (those worked, by the way, but I couldn't spend all my time in the bathtub)...everything. In the end, my doctor prescribed Prednisone for me, and it worked; I was able to wean myself down from 3 pills/day to 0 pills per day, by reducing my dosage by a fraction of a pill each day rather than by a whole pill every few days (because when I did *that*, the rash came back. I was frantic).

Prednisone is a very powerful and unpredictable drug, from what I'm told. I don't suggest you should ask your doctor to *prescribe* it, but if it isn't one of the 'oral steroids' you've already taken without success, perhaps you can ask your doctor if it might work for you, especially since you're not breastfeeding anymore.

I wish you luck and freedom from itchiness as soon as possible!

--
--angela

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