Hives...revisited

Last week I was sick. Really sick, with a terrible sinus infection. I was able to get into the dr. on Sat. am and he gave me a very high dose prescription for amoxicillin. I starteed it Saturday and started feeling better by Sunday afternoon. (I guess that wasjust yesterday, huh?) Late last night I started itching around my waist but thought it was form the tights I was wearing. Upon further investigation, I had hives there and also in my hair, on my ears, and stomach. Somehow, I remembered that last time I had the hives, they had started after a double stint on antibiotics. The drs. had questioned whether or not I was allergic to them. About 2 seconds later I was in a near panic. I knew I could not endure another stint of hives like I had last summer/fall. Thankfully I had talked about it with a friend and she happened to be coming over today to dip Advent candles with us (another post for another day--we had fun). She is knowledgable in homeopathic stuff and reccommended colloidal silver. She had used it before with great results. Very thankfully, she had some and brought some when she come. I still can feel the sinus infection--it is a bad one this time, and I know it is not gone from just the 2 days on amoxicillin, so I have taken the silver and am praying for good results. If anyone has other ideas, please let me hear them. I'm willing to try about anything to keep from having those hives again.
Off to make supper--kids are hungry! We had a very fun and busy day, so it's a good kind of hungry tonight!