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Well, yesterday my wife & I went to see the new Dark Knight movie featuring Heath Ledger & Christian Bale. It was a great movie, and they did a great job with it. Don’t worry, I won’t be giving any spoilers in this post =).
I like the superhero type movies, such as Batman, Spider-man, and Superman. I really like that Smallville show as well. Superheros are often exaggerations of real human strengths & weaknesses. They have super powers, but usually also have weaknesses or flaws.
If you think about it, I guess we are kind of like the incredible hulk. When he gets stressed or angry, he turns into a big green guy. Instead, we just itch when we get hot. Or maybe we are like Superman, and our “kryptonite” is heat…
Anyways, the great thing about the theaters is that most have a really cool temperature inside, so I didn’t have to worry about breaking out in hives. But as a side note the popcorn is outrageous ($5.10 for a small, and $3.50 for a bottle of water-YIKES). My wife & I decided to pass (we are cheapskates).
Cholinergic Urticaria & Diet Update
As far as the hives, I am actually starting to see some real results right now. I don’t want to get too optimistic, but they seem to be getting less & less reactive on my new diet-and this is not just a placebo effect. For example, about a week or two ago, I could simply walk outside or be sitting in my apartment, and I would break out BAD and almost instantly. Literally I was having reactions about 5 times a day. But now, I am driving in the car, walking outside, and I can even do sit-ups without a major reaction. I am just getting a slight prickly sensation on occasion, and that is fading more & more as each day goes by.
So I am happy about the Cholinergic Urticaria symptoms improving, and I am going strong on the Gluten-free/milk-free diet. I hope that they continue down this path & I can be cured. But if not, I will keep trying new things.
Also, the rash I had on my finger is now pretty much 100% gone. Furthermore, my skin seems a little less dry in a lot of spots where it was dry previously. For example, I always noticed that my cheeks had a slight red look to them on the sides of my nose. It isn’t very noticeable, but it is always dry & slightly red. This seems to have gotten less noticeable, and my wife even said so. So this is making me think that the diet could be really making a difference, since that is the only thing that has changed in the past few weeks (and I have not been going outside more often or forcing sweat).
So overall, seeing the less reactive results & feeling better is giving me a lot of motivation to stay on the diet. It actually isn’t that hard at all this time, because I have tried to find a lot more gluten free/milk free foods that taste yummy. So in terms of taste (and cost) the diet isn’t much different than my usual diet.
I just can’t wait for a few more weeks & months to pass so I can have a definitive answer on whether or not this diet will cure the cholinergic urticaria. I am hoping & praying it does. As I mentioned before, some people I have talked to online that had other types of pressure related hives were cured after altering their diet to gluten free, but it took about a month or two for these people to see the full results–and now no longer have breakouts of hives. So only time will tell if this will help the cholinergic urticaria.
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This post was written by Ben on July 21, 2008
