Delayed Pressure Urticaria

Ok how does one "learn" to sleep on one's back and not move?  Woke up this morning, having slept on my stomach a bit and I look like I took a punch to my upper lip...

Hi there, Just wanted to add to this posting as, finally, after 10 years of hell suffering from DPU and angioedema - particularly my hands and feet I am 99% free of it! I just lost 4 stone and have already caused less pressure on my feet when I walk around I know - but my diet is so much healthier now. Lots of fruit and veg and very little bread and pastry, no fizzy drinks and lots of water. Also found out I was extremely low in vitamin D. Had to take a prescribed high dose to get the levels back to normal and now continue to take over-the-counter multi vit each day to maintain. The combination of these 3 things has changed my life! A slight return of symptoms this week though with the over-indulgences of Christmas...

@moshihut.

Your DPU is clearly a sensitivity to chemicals, most commonly found in bread and bake goods, but they are also in everything out of a package, and flavored drinks. You can probably eat and drink what ever you like, you just have to eat whole food products. No phosphates, nitrates, lecithin, magnesium sterate, potassium sorbate, or anything you recognize as non food ingredient that you couldn't use if you were to make it homemade. I'm pretty certain if you just stay away from preservatives and emulsifier chemicals your DPU would be cured.

Hey Guys, first time posting this anywhere. I believe I am part of the club. The worst is if I sleep face down, my face starts to swell up. I play sports and sometimes I get rashes on the areas that make contact with something else (under my legs and arms and on my hands). I did find that my reactions are worse when I am stressed out. There was a time when I was really busy/stressed at work and it seemed that I was getting it all the time. It all started when I was in my junior year of college. That was also a very stressful time. Let me know if anyone else has seen this correlation with stress.

THANKS SO MUCH

 

hello maybe i can help....i had the same thing for 16 years 

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Hi guys, I just found out about this today after having my life get de-railed for 4 months.

I work at a very well known biotech company as a biotechnician on a manufacturing floor.  Three months after starting work, in January, I noticed that my hands would be itchy when I went home.  I thought it was me being unsafe with chemicals.  But after about a week and a half, the mild irritation suddenly blew up to incredibly painful, burning hives on my palms.  

A worker's compensation case opened up for me and we all thought I was allergic to the nitrile gloves I was using.  But the next week, I was told to do any work possible that doesn't involve the use of gloves when my feet then started to exhibit the symptoms.

I was removed from the manufacturing floor and have been stuck behind a computer since then, not even doing my own job that I dreamed of having. 

They first suggested that I visit my PCP, who took a biopsy and ran a blood test.  All she said was that it was urticaria (well duh), and that my eusinophils and neutrophils were high.  She suggested Zyrtec and Atarax and sent me off.  A few days after taking the medications, I was returned to the manufacturing floor, only to break out severely within 3 hours of working.

I was removed from the floor for about a month, while I waited to have an appointment with a Dermatologist from UCSF.  I'm now under study by him and another doctor because they've never seen it before.

It wasn't until yesterday when I wore a pair of tight shoes did the symptoms finally present themselves off the manufacturing floor.  I did a Google search this morning, "Can tight shoes cause hives," and suddenly I finally have an answer.

I just hope they believe me now...

I have the same thing, it has been 3 years now! i am 29 yearsold, the only thing can avoid this is takin allergy pills, and you right Drs have nothing to do for it,
A friend of mine is actually an allergy Dr and thats what hes doin, we tried everything! I was like a lap rat to him.

Hey man, Any update with you case?! Please let me know coz i am suffering here with the same issue .

I've never had any allergies to anything( that i know about). i have never had any kind of serisi sickness! And 3 years ago i got this shity thing , im 29 years old .

Dear Would you please send me the contact for this Ayurvedic Medicine Doctor. My hives started 3 days back and I usually find it increased when I wake up in the morning and mostly the hives are on that side on which I was sleeping

I just had my 61st birthday.  Thought i'd google why my hand was suddenly getting itchy with little bumps for no reason. Found this site. I've had hives or itchy small bumps that can turn into big giant still very very itchy bumps that are terrible looking on my forearms. Sometimes they have been on the top of my hands. Once on my upper arms. These usually happen after I've been in the hot sun. 

Lately I've been having what another girl at work also has... seems like if some kind of pressure is on my forearms, then my skin gets red and raises up and gets itchy with tiny bumps. 

The first time I ever had hives on my arms was when I was in my early twenties. I doesn't happen very often...until lately. 

I've been lactose-intolerant for the last 13 years, not realizing it had anything to do with Gluten-Intolerance. Finally figured it out a year and a half ago. I wish I had figured this out sooner because putting off knowing it was gluten for 10+ years has caused me to now have some food intolerances that I wish I didn't have. I done lots of research on celiac and gluten-intolerances. It is the basis for many many conditions from big skin problems to smaller ones, to gut/digestive problems, to cancer, to brain problems like ADHD, Bi-Polar and Schizophrenia, to osteoporosis, and many worse conditions.......and if you don't stop the gluten and eat healthy leafy greens and fruits, and less starches from grains and sugars, you'll end up with worse conditions. Wheat is not good for people to eat.... think of it as Frankenwheat. It is too big of a protein molecule to digest, and so it creates havoc in your gut.

Some people have no symptoms until they have cancer..and this is the cause. Some people ignore their symptoms. Some people can't find an answer to their problems. But our bodies are an ecosystem that needs good fuel to not get sick, otherwise if we put junk in, even if it's  good organic whole wheat bread..its still a grain. And humans did not evolve by eating grains.  The reason it's all affecting us worse now is that we humans have been changing wheat for the last 50 years or so. We've been trying to force it to make more wheat to feed the world. But now it's like it's more evolved than we are!!! And the gluten in it is four times stronger than it was. Don't eat it. There are other gains but fruits and veggies will make you well. It does take 6 months for it to get out of your system BTW.

What makes more sense? Glutin intolerance or sensitivity to chemicals that are in everything with glutin? You really believe that some naturally occuring food product protein like wheat is to blame, after we have been using it for thousands of years? Or is it all the non-food chemicals in all of your bread? I'm starting to believe that they tell us this glutin BS to get you distracted from the real cause, chemicals. Is it really too simple for everyone to understand? Take a look at a loaf of bread. Do you recognize the majority of those ingredients? No. Well neither does your body. It's REALLY that simple. Remove chemicals from your diet and your DPU will be gone in 3 days.

I'm a 43 year old female and have had DPU since the age of 25.  Drs first thought it was allergy related but now are thinking it is autoimmune.  Have also tried meds other than steroids since they are so hard on the body.  The DPU has come and gone many times over the years.  I have noticed though as I get older the reactions are much more severe and take longer to disipate.  Curious from all the research online, has anyone been tested for h. pylori or any other micro organisms, and or parasites?  Since some of these get into cells and cause the body to attack itself it seems like it might be a plausible cause.  I'm going to be tested for h. pylori will report on results.

I agree with the chemical hypothesis or just that our foods have been genetically modified to keep longer on the shelves or look prettier or be disease resistant. These gmos are what I think are to blame for many allergies and other disorders such as celiacs. We recently started growing our own heirloom foods and hope that it might improve my condition.