Good luck with your surgery April. That’s really a big ordeal you are dealing with.
Have you ever considered an elimination diet to help you figure out what’s causing your hives.?
It could be anything but as far as food items go, an elimination diet along with a food journey can really help you pinpoint what it could be.
The foods which you think might be trigger foods you should eat as much of it as you can in one day and log in your results.
Doing a search on food allergies, the elimination diet will show up if you’d like to try it.
Again, good luck with your surgery and discovering what’ is causing your hives.
Best of luck with your mammogram and colonoscopy April, hope the results from both of them are favorable. That's too bad about the hives, sounds awful. Could it be from plants or bushes where you live? Keesha has good advice on the elimination diet, I think most people start with wheat and dairy. Could it be a detergent or soap you're using? Did you ever get hives where you used to live?
Keesha, Sea, thanks for the suggestions, I do have some idea of some of the food items that cause my hives as well as environment, chemical. The problems is the list just keeps getting longer. Soon I'll have to be wrapped up in a bubble. I won't mind the bubble as long as I can roll around in it though. :rofl1::rofl1:
There are so many food spices I can't let even touch my skin like red pepper, cloves, and many more I can't eat. Can't go near bleach and some other cleaners or. I have a neighbor who if I sit on her patio for more that a minute, the hives come out immediately, if I my arm brushes against the wood cabinets in my apt, I break out. I'm careful with bath and laundry products as well, no fabric softeners or dryer sheets unless I use natural products/make my own.
I've been going over in my mind what the most recent food item I might have eaten that could be affecting me and it may be some flavored coffee I had recently picked up. I rarely drink coffee, but love the flavored kind so thought I would give it a try. I'm not sure which cause the lump that I had under my chin which the doctors made me come to the hospital immediately to have examined, it was growing and I guess they were afraid it would at some point start blocking my airway even though it was on the outside, but because it grew so fast so big, they didn't want to chance it. That's when they prescribed two kinds of meds which just ended up causing issues of another kind, so I stopped taking them. However, being in so much physical upset lately, I've started back just taking the milder one zyrtec. Without the med, I couldn't find any peace at all. Still doesn't completely clear up the pain but, it did shrink the hives. Last time I had it this bad was back in April after a camping trip, I had sprinkled pepper flakes around the outside and inside of my tent, bit mistake, by the time the trip was over, my skin was on fire and bumps and hives were everywhere.
For now, I've stopped drinking that coffee, I'm more of a tea drinker anyway these days..
Thank you ladies for the concern, the other test are just routine.
