Posted by KaraS on July 3, 2004, at 0:25:14
In reply to Re: Itching while taking Zonegran or tricyclics? » KaraS, posted by SLS on July 2, 2004, at 22:25:53
> Hi again.
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> > > Sounds like cholinergic urticaria. Your body produces a histamine response to the heat.
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> > Actually I did read that it is the sweating that your body is reacting to.
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> I think you might have figured it out. After all of these years, it's nice to have an explanation. I thought that it perhaps had something to do with a noradrenergic phenomenon, but your description matches something I found on the Net.
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> http://www.emedicine.com/DERM/topic442.htm
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> Thanks again.
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> :-)
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> - Scott
Scott,
That's a really good article and it looks familiar to me. I think it was also the one that made me decide this was the right diagnosis for me. Lucky us, eh? (though I guess there are a lot worse things to deal with and the article does say that the tendency can go away...)Oh well, have a wonderful weekend!
Kara
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