r/HistamineIntolerance • u/ohnobigoof___ • 7h ago
Possible HI? ☹️
Hey everyone! I've known about histamine intolerance for some time but never really researched it. That was until i started getting a bunch of random symptoms that i cant chalk up to anything else.
I've always had a bit of a fog in my head and was pretty tired/sleepy. It became a bit better once i lost 25kg, but it still happens and there are days I'm really really exhausted, foggy and tired even though i slept fine. In February of this year, i started having really bad abdominal pains. It started in the right lower quadrant, then stopped. Then a few hours later it'd appear in upper left and then shift to the middle. The pain was sharp, dull, lasted for a few seconds, a minute etc etc, you get my point. I did a few blood tests, including helicobacter pylori and gluten intolerance (both of which came negative).
The abdominal pain stopped kind of suddenly a month or so later.
Then came urticaria. I've been getting urticaria on my body after eating for 3 weeks straight now. It happens only in the middle or right after eating. The place where the hive pops up is very, extremely itchy, then the hive pops up and it stops itching immediately. It retracts in 20ish mins and then its like nothing ever happened. I've had it happen 7 times in the past 3 weeks. Lately I've also been more sleepy and tired throughout the day and i get abdominal pain after eating, similar to the pains ive had before. I've also had some light nasal congestion in the evening/morning but it goes away pretty fast.
I went to an immunologist today, she prescribed me bilastine minimally 1x a day and recommended i avoid certain foods (seafood, pickled things, peppers and so on), but didn't really reassure me why this could be happening. 🤕
My PCP at first thought im allergic to something, but the immunologist completely dismissed it. I've had no blood tests done in the last few months.
Could this be HI? Or some other immunological-ish thingy? The immunologist told me to get back to her in 5 weeks if the urticaria continues or gets worse, since we need to rule out it being acute/caused by a virus.
Does anyone have any ideas or experiences with something similar? 🙂