Urticaria Angioedema
Any advice? Angioedema with urticaria condition?
I do have an angioedema and urticaria for my whole life, I guess. I do remember have few episodes like a child ( my lips or eyes got very swollen ), but when I got older, it came back- around age 28- for 6 months I had episode of hives and swelling ( in my case usually they’re going together ) every day. Then it stopped-I was 3 months pregnant. Maybe pregancy helped, I do not know. 2.5 years after, it is back. Hives almost every day…and yesterday I even got that terrible upper lip swelling and hives on my abdomen. I feel depressed right now because of it. I couldn’t get out with my kids, because I looked like someone beat me up. Any advice? I do not have an insurance, so I don’t know, what should I do. I am scared sometimes because of it. Seems pretty serious. I am taking Cetirizine , I feel like it helping me, but probably not enough. …Can you help? maybe your story or advice …thanks …and is it an autoimmune disorder or what is it?
You can have urticaria triggered by several different conditions- cold, heat, pressure, vibration, solar to name some. Think of it as a condition that is always present and when there is a trigger you get the outbreak of hives.
I am going to add some references that I have found over the years and also tell you a little about my problems with urticaria and a solution that worked for me.
I had urticaria for 10 years, triggered mainly by pressure but sometimes by heat or cold. I found that a combination of claritin D and serevent or advair worked to keep the outbreaks from happening and that if I did have an outbreak 8-12 mg of medrol would ease them and usually break it up quickly.
After 10 years, I went on the Atkins diet to lose 50 lbs and all of a sudden I noticed I wasn’t having any outbreaks and was feeling better. Stopped the medicines slowly, still no outbreaks. Started looking at what foods I had started eating and what I had quit eating and through a process of trial and error found out that gluten was the culprit. I had quit eating breads, pastas etc for the diet. Gluten is found in wheat, rye and barley and things made from them. So I have been gluten free med free and hive free for 7 years now.
If you want to try this, I recommend you get your doctor to test you for celiac disease and dermititis herpetiformis BEFORE you try a gluten free diet. The test isn’t valid unless you are still eating gluten containing foods. Then if the tests are positive, you will have a diagnosis and go on a gluten free diet and you should see a lessening of symptoms. If the tests are negative, still try the gluten free diet for 2-3 months to rule out non-celiac gluten intolerance or a gluten allergy.
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