Cholinergic Urticaria-Sweat feels great
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The past couple of days I have been doing a lot of errands. It has been very hot & muggy. I tried to purposely keep the windows up to make the temperature get really hot in my car. The results, a little itching the first day, followed by SWEAT…YES!!
It feels so great to sweat! I never realized how much I took it for granted until I got cholinergic urticaria (heat hives). So every time I am lucky enough to sweat, I always take advantage of it.
I had a great sweat yesterday. Today, I also went out and didn’t itch at all. Instead, I went directly into sweating with no itching or prickling. I love it!!
If only it would be like this all the time. But this makes me think, perhaps if I could get way more sun/outdoors exposure, and sweat like crazy on a frequent basis–maybe this thing will go away for good??
I always makes me feel more positive after a good sweat, because it gives me hope that one day this is all going to be behind us.
The old saying is sometimes true: Use it or lose it!!
Just think about it. If you don’t use your memory, you will lost it. If you don’t use your body, it will become out of shape and you will “lose it.” Maybe it is the same with sweat glands. Maybe we didn’t use them enough, and they stopped working? Maybe air conditioners are to blame as well. It seems like humans have air conditioners everywhere. At home, work, car, etc.
So maybe we just need to get more good old fashion sweat, on a CONSISTENT and REGULAR basis. Sure, I have days when I sweat or go outside–but certainly not consistently or regularly. Plus, when this first started, I had a period of little activity and stayed mostly indoors.
Diet Update:
Well I have now been off the diet for several days. I am actually still avoiding milk “mostly.” I allowed myself to have a blizzard from Dairy Queen. It was great, but it still upset my stomach a little despite taking some lactose pills. So oh well. I guess I will just have to really control my milk intake, and allow it here & there in my diet.
So I have just been eating regular stuff again (with wheat, etc.). I am no longer trying any intense diets at the moment, but I am more “healthy food” conscious, so I am going to try to find a better balance of healthy food vs. junk foods.
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:44 am
I think it is kinda of weird to say that it seems like we’re kind of on the same ‘cycle’ right now.
I wonder if it’s the weather, or just purely coincidence. You’re in the Carolina’s right? Well, I’m in lower-north Georgia. So, hmm.
I can’t seem I’ve been completely prick-free, but I’ve just not been very reactive at all, thank goodness. Since I’ve moved into my dorm at Georgia State, which is literally in the middle of Atlanta, it’s a literal 15 minute walk back to campus. This week, it has majorly been pretty hot, so walking back home, avoiding getting hit by cars with a bunch of people around, with tons of heat…would normally set me off greatly, but it hasn’t.
September 1st, 2008 at 10:51 am
I know what that’s like… finally sweating is major relief. I’ve been fine most of the summer, as I too am in Atlanta going to Georgia Tech– walking to class and then back to the dorms helps “breakthrough the pricks”.
I’ve been in an air conditioned environment for the past two days (due to the holiday) and I can already feel the pricks coming back… I will be going back to the dorms tonight–moving stuff around again– and I hope I get hot enough to break a sweat then.
I’ve always given myself this 3-day rule: Go three days without sweating and I am guaranteed to have intense pains and pricks the next time I get hot. So with that lingering over my head I try to sweat often.
I want to try the no-milk diet that you tried, to see if it helps. Because along with the air-conditioned environment, I’ve had several cereal bowls with milk, and a frosty… so I think I will try to cut milk out too.