It may very well be the same thing. Sounds like it. I meant 5 DAY treatment, not 5 weeks.
When I had that flare up, I seem to recall I had a week hiatus and then I was on it again.
OUCH, there is definitely some thing wrong there.
My story------10 year old daughter going into hormone changes.
\she gets up one morning and her face looked like I had beaten her with a 2x4 right out of the blue.
I ran her into the Navy Hospital and the staff there were horrified, my daughter looked like Lon Chaney. Doctors shot her up on benidril and I took her home, sent a note to her school asking for homework as she could not leave the house looking like that.
Finally after 3 days a school Representative visited me with her home work but was nasty as all get out. A swollen face was no reason for her to miss school, then my daughter came into the room and the gasp from the Representative was audible. This was not a normal childhood disease.
How this worked, the swelling would go down for weeks, then she would complain that her lips were itching, we could actually see the fluid collect under her skin. Her doctors believed she was being bit by a spider or fire ant and kept the Benidril flowing.
It just seemed to go away when we moved, then 4 years later while visiting my parents she had an appendix attack. While in the hospital the old itching of the lips and swelling came back.
This was an Air Force Hospital and things were different there. They turned my daughter upside down, did every test that that time was known to man.
Picture this, You are a 14 year old female and quite focused on the hair and makeup. Boys calling for dates, then one morning you awaken to look like a Bull Dog.
Your own parents and grand parents break into tears when they see you, you spend hours at some Doctors office that everyone hopes will bring you back to where you were just one day day before.
She poor kid somehow felt it was her fault, she was not or was doing something to cause this disease. This comes and goes, one day the child is beautiful a week later the child trying to make friends and go to school cannot be let out of the house due to scaring the crap out of the neighbors chickens.
This was a ride for us her family, we never got any answers as to what was going on, was this just a fluke in her genes, was this just one of those things that happen for no reason.
UPDATE --- Raisins, yup they found after all those years that there is something in the MAKING of raisins that cause her to fill with fluid.
She can eat grapes and all dried fruit but some chemical used to make rasins cause her body to revolt.
Cheers----- that 10 yer old had to spend a life trying to grow up ar a normal kid and not knowing those foods rasin bars and Raisen Brand were killing her.
