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| DanE1986 |
Posted - 12/11/2010 : 15:03:34
I have had problems for about 2-3 years with my skin. I first noticed it when I was playing basketball in the winter. I became warm/hot and my head and face just started itching like crazy. Prickly heat if you could put a word on the sensation. I notice also where the "pricking" is little red dots/blotches (not bumps) appear. I finally seen a derm and all they gave me was creams which obviously didn't help. Went to an allergist they said chronic urticaria and their meds didn't help. I got in touch with an old nutritionist when all this first started and gotten in touch with her again after my unsuccessful allergist visit and she told me about Advanced Allergy Theraputics. Please look it up if your not familiar, it is a life savor with people suffering from food allergies and other types of allergies. The process is MORE affective and more accurate than blood testing. She was allergic to virtually everything, and with most other patients have become symptom free because the process finds and then ELIMINATES the allergies. I have gotten several things fixed so far. I had problems with certain sugars, wheat, and so on. I think the last 3 things that need to get fixed are my problems with food dyes, and chicken/turkey. They can also check emotions and heat sensitivites. My problem is whenever my body gets warm to the point of sweating (torso on up) I will get the prickly feeling. Like my skin is reacting to something that is in the blood. It will subside in a few mintues but its obviously bothersome to me. It is also noticed that when I'm "caught of guard" or "overly surprised/shocked" my body temp goes up quick then the prickly feeling will occur too. I am familiar with TMS, but with the AAT treatment/elimination I guess I may be doubting that this may be part of TMS. I guess I will get all these foods taken care of and then I will know for sure. Since I did some research on some of my remaining allergies that these can cause urticaria. Any tips? Thanks,
Dan |
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| shoaibhasnat |
Posted - 03/18/2011 : 11:12:07
I noticed that if I stop scratching ,The Hives(Urticaria)go away.But sometimes it's impossible to refrain from scratching, because they are so itchy. How do I handle this?
Thanx
Shoaib |
| Hillbilly |
Posted - 12/13/2010 : 07:42:14
Become as passive toward your symptoms as you can muster. Don't worry about them, see docs, read things, nothing at all. You've done that. Now you have this information that is like a wall you are trying to scale without knowing its boundaries. It is futile to try to fight your nerves. I like the Claire Weekes approach of giving up to your symptoms, allowing them to be there while you prove to yourself that you can do things. This is no different with back pain or a gurgling gut. It is our alarm over the symptom of alarm that is the problem. Period.
I don't know how long it took for me to see the urticaria die away, because I had much more of an issue with muscle pains and insomnia. I was nearly crippled by them, or so I thought. Once I started on a path of passivity and stopped journaling, reading, searching, talking to people, forum jumping, etc., I saw immediate relief. I had a plan, and it didn't require any time out of my day to do exercises, journal or anything else. I simply had to carry on with my day and take my symptoms with me for the ride as long as they tagged along. If you hate journaling, writing about things that piss you off is in my view adding stress. Finding time when you are busy is also adding stress.
If you feel better writing, then do it. If you like beating on couches, do it. If you feel stupid and think it's futile, don't. You can do whatever you want to do and succeed. That's the thought you should hold onto. You can do anything you want. And you should, only there is a barrier now that has been created by symptoms. But the symptoms are merely discomfort. They can be worked with and around, laughed about, however you choose to deal with them. But try to see if you fall into spells during the day anticipating an activity and dreading it because of the hives. You'll probably catch yourself 1,000 times a day. That's when you need to bring your mind back to what you are doing or not doing, and breaking that habit -- ultimately stopping it -- will in time cure your ailment.
If you broke your arm, would you constantly think about it, try to move it, worry about if and when it would ever heal, etc.? No, you would allow it to hurt for as long as it needed in order to heal, and then go back to normal life. That's the path out of stress problems. The symptoms are loud and noisy and uncomfortable, but ultimately nothing at all. Be thankful that you get the chance to re-evaluate and change some things in your life without having a stroke or something else that could've been your first -- and last -- warning. You are healthy, and that should be what you hold onto and come back to if you drift into the world of "what if."
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| DanE1986 |
Posted - 12/12/2010 : 18:58:42
So how long did it take for you to start noticing changes with your reactions? Did you do any journaling or meditating to help also? Thanks,
Dan |
| Hillbilly |
Posted - 12/12/2010 : 13:22:14
You will feel it coming on and recognize it as a stress-induced symptom, no different from a pounding heart or shortness of breath. It comes on outside your control. What you do control is your reaction. If you let it wash over you and prickle and burn and even inflame your skin to the point of being noticed, don't add any, any, any stress to the boiling pot by thinking "I've gotta get away from this guy or he'll see me hiving up and wonder if I'm OK," etc.
Don't scratch, wiggle, wobble, nothing. Let it come and go. It will do so very quickly. My skin always returned to normal within a couple of minutes if I didn't do something to add to the problem. This is the fuel that you can turn off to keep it from inhibiting your life. It will slowly fade away if not watched for and given importance. If you change your routine for it, you give it power and add stress. Simple, not easy.
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| DanE1986 |
Posted - 12/12/2010 : 04:13:01
thank you, but how do I approach the level of anxiety if someone catches me "off guard" or when I'm working out and begin to naturally perspire? Alot of times I have no idea that this episode is going to even occur, like maybe a month ago when it first hit me hard again. I went to the gym and got done stretching then started doing alot of situps then BAM, the prickly episode started, like i said, from parts of my mid body up to my face. I remember telling myself to settle down and relax during the episode, but it never helped. It just feels like my body is attacking me and trying to tell me something. Again I am 100% aware of the TMS theory and I have been journaling and meditating for my hip/ sciatic discomfort which is brought on by programming and sometimes stress. Thanks,
Dan |
| Hillbilly |
Posted - 12/11/2010 : 21:29:32
Dan,
I had this problem for decades. It started in high school and continued through college and into my career. Heat always caused it. I was never cold. But I would get it when it was colder outside, especially in transition times, late spring and early fall. I always knew it was worse when I was under stress. Embarrassment caused a truly hideous red rash all over my body that burned like fire.
Good news is it is nothing at all to concern yourself with. It is probably not food allergy. It is an allergy to acetylcholine, which is a stress hormone. It is 100% part of the whole stress paradigm in my experience and in my opinion. The Merck still recommends systematic desensitization as a treatment, which is no different than treating panic disorder. It's nerves on edge responding badly. Nothing more. Uncomfortable and sometimes bothersome, but not a threat to your physical health. It is a threat to your mental health if you choose to let it be. I did and suffered. The choice is yours.
I no longer have the symptom. It disappeared when I learned to stop getting alarmed over it, adding my own alarm to the sound of alarm. I don't remember when, but it was after my back pain and panic attacks started. So get the allergy testing done if you wish to rule out other things, but absent a clear, immediate reaction to ingesting something, it's cholinergic urticaria, an autoimmune response that can go away if you let it.
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