Published on 12, July, 2020
Hey everyone
Just putting this out there as I have always thought I was different when I was younger but didn’t have an awful lot of traits. I had chronic urticaria from say age 20 - 24 this is an extreme allergic reaction, I had intolerance tests with no cause. I was put onto very strong medication which had to be monitored. I put it down to stress but never really thought about the connection between autism and this. I do still get this now but hardly ever but I just wondered if anyone else has had the same experience or similar?
This started a few years after I started really struggling with panic attacks, these all seem like stress factors to me (I feel so blind)
Thanks for reading
Might be useful to investigate the connection to histamine and mast cell activation syndrome. I had a skin test for common allergens many years ago. I had no visible reaction to any of the allergens, but they used a priick of histamine as a positive control, this came up like Mt Vesuvius, but was ignored. I had and still have very sensitive skin and come up with urticaria rashes to virtually any form of skin irritation. If I absentmindedly rest my chin on the back of a hand, a few minutes later I will have an itchy nettle rash on my hand from irritation from my beard that I had not noticed at the time. I also have solar urticaria. If I am in strong sunlight for more than about 20 minutes I come out in painful and itchy rashes, on any area of exposed skin, except for my face.
For myself I do not think that these are allergies as such, allergies have to involve an immunoglobin response, but are non-specific. Like having the back half of an allergy but the specific response to a defined trigger is missing.