to Those Living With Cholinergic Urticaria..... Posted: 03-09-06 01:49am
I wanted to start a thread wondering how
you guys go along your daily lives. I'm
21 and have only had it for a couple
months but its getting so bad that my life
has pretty much stopped. I had to quit
my job for now, i'm not going to school,
and I can barely leave the house. I
can't go out with friends anymore because
it's gotten so bad. Stress/anxiety has a
lot to do with mine and can trigger it
anytime. It went from being a
discomfort/ itchiness to the worst
physical pain i've ever felt. It's
spread to my legs and the pain is
unbelieveable. How do you guys live your
lives like this?
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josh6552
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 24 Location: Tampa, FL
Posted: 03-16-06 14:16pm
I understand your frustration with heat
hives. What medicines have you used?
Zrytec proved to work 100% side-effect
free for me.
Try this website's online prescription
plan or schedule an appointment with one
of their urticaria specialist at http://www.Urticaria.Com.
I havn't had the money to try their
medicines but I have read that cholinergic
urticaria can be cured.
I know zrytec and other meds just cover up
the symptoms which means that the allergy
will always be present but just
temporarily eradicated. That is why the
website above has special medicines that
attacks it differently and should
completely eradicate heat hives from the
immunal level.
Partly the reason why I havn't tried their
meds is because I only have to take
loradine or zyrtec (and I have some very
very bad hives) every 2 days and i'm
absolutely hives free. If for any reason
the meds were no longer affective I would
think about a cure.
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tosaman
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 26 Jul 2006 Posts: 2
This May Help... Posted: 07-26-06 22:30pm
Hello everyone,
the postings on this site seem very
similar to the problem I experienced
during the past year. I am now making
every effort to share my story with the
hope that I can help others. Here it
goes:
i lost the ability to sweat during the
summer of 2005. it all started after I
had a sinus infection. I was given a
z-pack and zyrtec-d, which got rid of the
sinus infection. However, my feet began
to itch shortly thereafter. I visited
several doctors, all of whom prescribed
different antihistamines (allegra,
hydroxizine, and zyrtec) to treat the
itching.
After a while, the itching spread, and I
eventually stopped sweating. Instead of
sweating, my entire body was covered with
a painful “prickly” sensation, as if
my skin were being pierced with thousands
of pins. the pain was most intense
whenever I tried to exercise, and I
frequently broke out in hives.
giving up all hope, I stopped taking all
antihistamines in october of 2005, but the
pain continued for several months
thereafter. at one point, I was
investigating the use of steroids to
improve my condition. after considering
my options, I decided to wait it out. I
am very pleased to report the wait has
paid off. with every passing month, my
body has slowly been healing itself. I
can now exercise and sweat profusely with
only the slightest “prickly”
sensation, which quickly disappears after
my workout begins. I am confident that
this, too, will disappear in time. I am
even more confident that an allergic
reaction to zyrtec was the cause of my
problem. I am now taking steps to share
this information with the fda.
I have done some research and discovered
that in october 2005, a medical journal
published an article called "adverse
cutaneous reactions of systemic
antihistamines" (current medicinal
chemistry - anti-inflammatory &
anti-allergy agents, volume 4, number 5,
october 2005, pp. 521-529(9). I would
love to read this article. It seems the
medical community is just beginning to
realize that their prized antihistamines
may be causing much of the trouble they
are supposed to be curing.
During the course of my affliction I
consulted with three allergists, and they
all refused to consider that I was having
an allergic reaction to a drug they so
frequently prescribe (even when I
suggested the possibility). I only wish
one of them had advised me to stop taking
everything, rather than prescribing the
alternative antihistamines which worsened
my condition. It is my hope that my
experience will assist those who have
similar symptoms.
