For the last year or so I have been suffering with persistent hives having never had anything like it before. Over the last six months I m feeling increasingly tired to the point now that I have to leave work early as I just can t make it to the end of my shift, my shift is only five and a half hours and I only work two day s a week. I have been ill with a horrible cold which has now gone to my chest and I ve been like it for nearly three weeks. Don t really feel as though I can go to my gp. I did go to her about the hives a few months ago and she just told me to take anti histamine for a month and see what happens. I really couldn t be bothered to tell her I d been taking them for a year. Could all these things be connected?