Comments on: Need DOCTOR in PEORIA ILLINOIS who will listen about my hives.? http://www.antiaging-vitamins.org/need-doctor-in-peoria-illinois-who-will-listen-about-my-hives.html About Anti Aging Treatments, Vitamins, Medicine, Antioxidants, Skin Care, Products, Diet, Food, Supplements, Laser, Mineral, Omega 3, Herbs, Exercises Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:10:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: sailor http://www.antiaging-vitamins.org/need-doctor-in-peoria-illinois-who-will-listen-about-my-hives.html/comment-page-1#comment-3341 sailor Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:51:15 +0000 http://www.antiaging-vitamins.org/need-doctor-in-peoria-illinois-who-will-listen-about-my-hives.html#comment-3341 I don't know about that type of yogurt but you can get plain yogurt that has not been pasteurized in Whole Foods and health food stores. That is all I can offer on the yogurt issue except do some online research and see if you can figure out how to get a culture of your own going. I had hives for 10 years and at the intensity of what you are talking about. I ended up on serevent or advair(both asthma meds) along with claritin that kept outbreaks from happening. Know another person that uses singulair and zyrtec. In retrospect, I wish someone had prescribed prozac for me to help me deal with how helpless I felt sometimes. What broke the hives for me was going on a strict gluten free diet. I have been gluten free and hive free and medfree for 6 years now. Much better than the fear of an outbreak everyday! Get tested for celiac disease before you go on a strict gluten free diet. But after the testing, try the gluten free diet anyway because you could be non celiac intolerant or allergic to one of the grains or gluten. Also add a gluten free multivitamin and omega complex capsules. The hives quit happening after about a month on the diet. As to doctor recommendations, find an allergist that is willing to work with you to try different meds until you are controlled. Allergists seem to work with the meds more than a gp. Also another source would be the doctor recommended by a celiac disease support group for your area since they are used to searching for a difficult to diagnose condition. www.csaceliacs.org should have a group in your area or at least the state. Good luck and if you have questions or just need someone to chat with, contact me through here. I don’t know about that type of yogurt but you can get plain yogurt that has not been pasteurized in Whole Foods and health food stores. That is all I can offer on the yogurt issue except do some online research and see if you can figure out how to get a culture of your own going.

I had hives for 10 years and at the intensity of what you are talking about. I ended up on serevent or advair(both asthma meds) along with claritin that kept outbreaks from happening. Know another person that uses singulair and zyrtec. In retrospect, I wish someone had prescribed prozac for me to help me deal with how helpless I felt sometimes.

What broke the hives for me was going on a strict gluten free diet. I have been gluten free and hive free and medfree for 6 years now. Much better than the fear of an outbreak everyday! Get tested for celiac disease before you go on a strict gluten free diet. But after the testing, try the gluten free diet anyway because you could be non celiac intolerant or allergic to one of the grains or gluten. Also add a gluten free multivitamin and omega complex capsules. The hives quit happening after about a month on the diet.

As to doctor recommendations, find an allergist that is willing to work with you to try different meds until you are controlled. Allergists seem to work with the meds more than a gp. Also another source would be the doctor recommended by a celiac disease support group for your area since they are used to searching for a difficult to diagnose condition. http://www.csaceliacs.org should have a group in your area or at least the state.

Good luck and if you have questions or just need someone to chat with, contact me through here.

]]> By: auraraine http://www.antiaging-vitamins.org/need-doctor-in-peoria-illinois-who-will-listen-about-my-hives.html/comment-page-1#comment-3340 auraraine Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:10:12 +0000 http://www.antiaging-vitamins.org/need-doctor-in-peoria-illinois-who-will-listen-about-my-hives.html#comment-3340 I totally sympathize with you. I have had chronic hives for 6 years. I have gone all over the country trying to find a treatment that would help. I live in Wisconsin and have gone to mayo clinic in Minnesota and after seeing that doctor for a year with no results he referred me to Allen Kaplan, an allergist in South Carolina who is supposed to be the best in the country for urticaria, to no avail. He is also a reference given on the thunderworks site. What has been explained to me is that almost all cases of chronic hives are idiopathic and they will never find the reason, it is an autoimmune problem where histamines are being released for no apparent reason. I do have hypothyroidism but was told that no evidence has really shown that there is a connection. The only thing that has ever had the slightest effect is prednisone, and believe me I have been on every medication that they could think of, nothing has worked. Since your insurance covers you anywhere in the state, I would suggest that you make an appointment with an allergist at Rush Presbyterian in Chicago. I knows its a long drive from Peoria, but there is no sense in wasting your time with a GP. They might need you to have multiple appointments at first, but they will run every test available to rule out any underlying conditions that may be causing the hives. http://www.rush.edu/rumc/page-1099611551289.html I hope you find a solution, I know it becomes very depressing and is not something you ever get used to. It's hard for others to realize what a really horrible condition this is to have. God bless Oh! I was looking for the yogurt that you mentioned and ran across this blog where she had a picture of her yogurt culture. Someone said they thought it was actually a Kefir culture, which led me to this: http://food.lifeisround.com/kefir-how.html Take a look and see if this is what you are talking about, I would love to know if this is what you were using to help your hives so that I can try some! I totally sympathize with you. I have had chronic hives for 6 years. I have gone all over the country trying to find a treatment that would help. I live in Wisconsin and have gone to mayo clinic in Minnesota and after seeing that doctor for a year with no results he referred me to Allen Kaplan, an allergist in South Carolina who is supposed to be the best in the country for urticaria, to no avail. He is also a reference given on the thunderworks site.

What has been explained to me is that almost all cases of chronic hives are idiopathic and they will never find the reason, it is an autoimmune problem where histamines are being released for no apparent reason. I do have hypothyroidism but was told that no evidence has really shown that there is a connection.

The only thing that has ever had the slightest effect is prednisone, and believe me I have been on every medication that they could think of, nothing has worked.

Since your insurance covers you anywhere in the state, I would suggest that you make an appointment with an allergist at Rush Presbyterian in Chicago. I knows its a long drive from Peoria, but there is no sense in wasting your time with a GP. They might need you to have multiple appointments at first, but they will run every test available to rule out any underlying conditions that may be causing the hives.
http://www.rush.edu/rumc/page-1099611551289.html

I hope you find a solution, I know it becomes very depressing and is not something you ever get used to. It’s hard for others to realize what a really horrible condition this is to have.

God bless

Oh! I was looking for the yogurt that you mentioned and ran across this blog where she had a picture of her yogurt culture. Someone said they thought it was actually a Kefir culture, which led me to this:

http://food.lifeisround.com/kefir-how.html

Take a look and see if this is what you are talking about, I would love to know if this is what you were using to help your hives so that I can try some!

]]> By: chip193 http://www.antiaging-vitamins.org/need-doctor-in-peoria-illinois-who-will-listen-about-my-hives.html/comment-page-1#comment-3339 chip193 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:27:10 +0000 http://www.antiaging-vitamins.org/need-doctor-in-peoria-illinois-who-will-listen-about-my-hives.html#comment-3339 My wife went through this a few years back. Thankfully, her's did resolve after a miserable summer. Like you, she did the soap/detergent/food logs and came up with nothing. She was seen by an allergist as our PCP was at a loss of what to do. A biopsy of one of the hives was done and it showed autoimmune urticaria. It sounds like you have the same thing. Do you have thyroid issues? Lupus? I ask because the there is some research that shows a connection between all the autoimmune diseases. Here is a website that may just help: http://www.urticaria.thunderworksinc.com/pages/whatis.htm Insist on a referral to an allergist. And good luck. Let us know how it goes. My wife went through this a few years back. Thankfully, her’s did resolve after a miserable summer. Like you, she did the soap/detergent/food logs and came up with nothing.

She was seen by an allergist as our PCP was at a loss of what to do. A biopsy of one of the hives was done and it showed autoimmune urticaria. It sounds like you have the same thing.

Do you have thyroid issues? Lupus?

I ask because the there is some research that shows a connection between all the autoimmune diseases. Here is a website that may just help:
http://www.urticaria.thunderworksinc.com/pages/whatis.htm

Insist on a referral to an allergist. And good luck. Let us know how it goes.

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