Well, it seems after a night of the cold sweats and chills my urticaria is all but gone. I suddenly sweat regularly now and only once in 11 days have I even felt the urticaria coming on at all (it used to happen 5 -15 times a day) – and then was when walking down an unshady street in 85 degree weather.
I don’t know what did it – if it was all the sweating I did when sick – oddly it caused me no pain – maybe because I was simultaneously cold with the chills while I sweat. All I know if I am basically disease free (within certain limitations – i.e. I’m still careful and aware).
This also has coincided with me upping my Zyrtex from 4 to 5 pills a day (of course talk with your doctor before trying any medical advice listed here), but for whatever goofy reason I really think it was getting sick.
Anyone else with a similar experience?
Thanks,
Nick
John says
Absolutely. I have no hives when feverish. My theory for what it is worth is that the increased interferon your body makes to help fight the infection stops the reaction that causes the hives too. Of course, I hope when you have been well a few weeks and the immune system returns to normal that you still won’t have hives. I have often wondered if some of the new highly effective Hepatitis C drugs could do the same for CU sufferers. Let’s try that out all you pharmaceutical companies! Maybe now that the warmer spring weather is here you will have some relief for a good long time…OR maybe you are cured for good. We all want that for you!!
Lane says
I don’t know about fevers as it’s been years since I’ve had one, but whenever I take antibiotics like a Z-pack, it knocks the hives out of my system for about six months! It’s what made my immunologist wonder if my body has created antibodies for the histamines, and perhaps a bacterial infection is what started it.
JIM says
I have had the flu for about 2 weeks and the itching is still there if I start to scratch but the break outs are less. I used to get the flu shots but stopped this year and I got the flu but I think the extra stuff in the flu shots fight good cells and might have caused the hives but this year has been better and letting the flu take its course has stopped the itching during the night. Maybe something about letting antibidies fight something rather than just a flu shot to prevent the flu by giving too many antibodies fighting no flu. I havent had the flu for many years so I guess it has good and bad to taking a flu shot. But the sweating is consistant with all of us . We do not sweat on a regular basis. Cure that and we will all be good. I try a low to no salt diet and it seems to help. I love hot saunas and that helps.
Greenwood girl says
Whenever my daughter gets a fever, her hives completely stop for a couple of weeks. I am guessing it keeps something in check by killing it off, but then it reappears. Wish I knew what it was, because heat usually makes her itch more.
Fever settles it down, makes it go away,