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Hello Everyone! I hope your hives have been giving you some relief. I have had moderate cholinergic urticaria reactions, nothing too bad. However, they have intensified recently.
Of course, I tried my little diet experiment a while back, where I eliminated the milk/gluten and more from my diet. The rashes I got on my body cleared right up, the hives decreased in intensity, but didn’t go away completely.
I then started “REALLY” craving junk food very badly. I wasn’t seeing the results I wanted, and so I quit the diet. I then went and ate all of my beloved sugar, wheat, and other junk foods these past few weeks.
In fact, since being off the diet, I have ate moderately bad! I have had Krispy Kreme donuts, pizza (with real cheese), blizzards from Dairy Queen, ice creame, those little nutter butter cookies (I love those things), chocolate, and much more.
Of course that isn’t the only thing I have been eating. I have had some wholesome food mixed in during meals. But overall, I have been letting myself catch up on the junk food. So I wanted to give an update on the changes I am feeling with my body. Here it goes:
First-I am now paying the price for eating all this junk food. I have been having some uncomfortable gas/cramping. I have had some bouts of very “loose” stool (poop) on occasion.
Second- I have once again developed a small red bump on the same index finger that I always get it on after consuming lots of milk (no big surprise). Also, I have a few other “itchy” type of bumps on my elbow, and a few random ones on my arm and legs.
Third- The cholinergic urticaria (heat hives) is back up in intensity and reactiveness, which I feel must be due to the increase in some chemical due to the increase in milk in my diet (I don’t know if it is histamine, eosinophils, mast cells, or what)??
Fourth- My abs aren’t so cool looking anymore? Wow, easy come–easy go I guess. But I do feel like crap since eating all this junk. It is hard to maintain focus. I can’t sleep as good, and my body just feels unhealthy. That is the thing I love about the diets when I go on them. I get in great shape, and I actually feel healthy (both mentally and physically).
This is no big shocking revelation. As I found out before, cholinergic urticaria, rashes, and my diet seem to have some correlation, however, I don’t know how or what it is. When I finished up this last diet, I had called it quits for a while and decided that diet wasn’t linked to cholinergic urticaria. However, I am wanting to do more testing, if nothing else, it will clear up the small rash on my finger.
At first, I suspected going on the diet could cure or stop the cholinergic urticaria. I didn’t go on the diet as long as I had hoped (I was hoping to see it play out over the course of months, but instead I only survived for about a little over 1 month).
I admit that I was very weak minded during the last few days of the diet. It was going well when I avoided gluten and milk, but still allowed lots of junk food. However, after cutting out the sugar and junk food, the diet became VERY DIFFICULT. It is like the ultimate temptation, and I was wanting the diet to be over so I could eat all of my favorite junk foods again. I was saying to myself, “Okay, this cholinergic urticaria thing isn’t so bad after all…JUST GIVE ME BACK MY JUNK FOODS.
My Junk Food Binge is Over!
Now that I have had a few weeks to get all the junk food I craved, I am going to try some more things with the diet thing again. Here is what I plan to do:
- First- I am cutting out all of the “junk” again. I will once again go gluten free, milk free for an extended period of time. I don’t know how long this will last, but at least long enough to get my digestion back to normal, and for the rashes to disappear.
- I am avoiding white rice. Last time I survived heavily throughout the diet experiment on white rice. It turns out, that may have been a big mistake. White rice is not really white rice at all. It is brown rice with the shell/coating removed, which causes a significant decrease in vitamins–not to mention that sometimes they even bleach the rice to make it nice and “white”. Then what do the companies do? They add artificial niacin (that chemical I talked about that is known to cause flushing), and other things to it so it can have at least some vitamin content. So I am now going to eat only brown rice which has the whole grain and natural vitamins in it.
- I have lots of veggies this time, and I will be eating home grown tomatoes, peppers and more
- I am going to really try to avoid sugar as much as I possibly can. This is so I can also have an “anti-candida” effect while on my diet, just to rule that possibility out. I will not buy any type of anti-candida treatments, but I will follow a mostly anti-candida natural diet. This is the toughest part. The less sugar I eat, the harder the diet becomes.
I already have food supplies, and I am restarting this diet tomorrow. Again, I am going to be tweaking it as I go along, and removing more foods and changing things to see what happens. I will keep everyone posted. Do you ever notice any connection of Cholinergic Urticaria symptoms and food? If so, let us know in the Cholinergic Urticaria forum.
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This post was written by Ben on September 11, 2008
