Approx once a year I find that something I have eaten for dinner at around 7 or 8pm won't digest. I will wake up unusually early from deep sleep around 4 or 5am with a stomach ache, then itching starts on the palms of my hands, then soles of feet, then chest, neck, forearms, and I mean so intense itching and swelling I want to scream. I have to either make myself sick or diarrhoea to get rid of it, and once that has been done it clears quite rapidly, but leaves me weak for the day. In the past it has been beef, or fish, or a fatty Thai meal with beer. Fats and alcohol slow digestion apparently, so if the food is stuck in the wrong part of the system, i.e still in the stomach after 8hrs, it is rotting in the wrong place and gives this reaction. That is my theory, partly backed up by what I have read online. Maybe it is a build up of toxins from several previous meals. It is a reaction to something. Other times I can eat the same things and be fine. Last night though, i had reheated tinned fish, mackerel and sardines and at 5am I burped and they had not digested.. yuck, then I had 3 hours of hell before it cleared. Perhaps unrelatedly, I occasionally get a swollen eyelid at the beginning of hay fever season in the Spring as a reaction to the pollen in the air. There is a cause for most things. Too much tuna gave me eczema, I am allergy prone.
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It happens to me too! All of a sudden I'll feel either my lips or cheeks and the inside of my mouth start to swell. My lips will get so big that I look like a baboon and they are almost the size of hotdogs! My cheeks on the other hand swell up on the inside, making me look like a chipmunk! This usually reaches maximum swelling in about 3-4 hours after the initial swelling, then from there is just gradually goes away! I haven't been able to pinpoint a particular food, medicine, or anything else that is consistent with the swelling. It does seem to happen during times of stress or anxiety! It used to freak me out, but I really don't stress over it now unless is happens to hit me at inconvenient time! Any sound advice or facts relating to what I've described would be fantastic!
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I've posted before but here's an update. No medication we have tried has helped my husband. I turned to natural medicine and don't know why I didn't sooner. He's been trying Parsley, concentrated in a pill form. Natural diuretic. One of his triggers is manual labor for his hands. We did yard work last weekend and he was fine. Fingers-crossed, hope it keeps working.
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No, the only diagnosis we've ever gotten that wasn't proven wrong is idiopathic angioedema.
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I'm having the exact same thing happening to me. And no explanation of what's going on. Pls help me
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I am a dingle mother of 4 and the sane exact thing has been going on with me for 2 years im so scared i just want answers i have bern to the hospital and they can tell me anything i feel like im dyin its painful im not myself it was just happening once so often now it everyday i need help for my kids sake!!
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From the amount of people experiencing this, it seems to be pretty common, which makes me surprised that no one seems to know what it is. I've done my own research into Angioedema, Granulomatous Cheilitis, and Urticaria, and I'm convinced it isn't any of those things. And I don't think it's anything to panic about.
I've experienced this myself several times over the past 5 years to differing degrees. I have itching/swelling on bottom of feet, ankles, wrists, palms and upper lip.. though not always all at the same time. Sometimes it's just a few areas... sometimes I get the lip, other times just the hands... sometimes it begins with itching... other times there's swelling without itching.
Because I had once been diagnosed with eczema a few years before experiencing this, I assumed there may be a link. I found that taking Cetrizine Hydrochloride seemed to help the swelling go down. Other times, it seemed to go down on it's own, which made me wonder if the Cetrizine actually worked. Either way, it tends not to last more than a day. It also seems to occur more commonly in the night, so that I wake up with the swollen areas. It's happened enough times that I can sense when it's coming on. If I notice late at night that my wrists are itchy and slightly swelling, for example, I might take some Cetrizine, which seems to put a stop to it, and I wake up the next day with no itching or swelling, so again, this might be helpful or it may be coincidental.
If Cetrizine helps, that tells me it might be an allergic reaction, but I've noticed that this occurs so randomly that I can't trace it to anything I've eaten or to other environmental factors. But what I have also noticed is that it tends to happen almost every time I'm sick with a cold or sinus infection. I've experienced it without being sick, but almost always when I am. In fact, I experienced this twice during my last sinus infection. So there may be a link between sinus inflammation and this strange phenomenon, not that's necessarily related to the sinuses themselves, but perhaps to the same pathogen (?).
This condition seems to remain mystery. But hopefully, my input helps in some way, if simply to relieve some of the fear you might have. I hope we do find an answer.
I've experienced this myself several times over the past 5 years to differing degrees. I have itching/swelling on bottom of feet, ankles, wrists, palms and upper lip.. though not always all at the same time. Sometimes it's just a few areas... sometimes I get the lip, other times just the hands... sometimes it begins with itching... other times there's swelling without itching.
Because I had once been diagnosed with eczema a few years before experiencing this, I assumed there may be a link. I found that taking Cetrizine Hydrochloride seemed to help the swelling go down. Other times, it seemed to go down on it's own, which made me wonder if the Cetrizine actually worked. Either way, it tends not to last more than a day. It also seems to occur more commonly in the night, so that I wake up with the swollen areas. It's happened enough times that I can sense when it's coming on. If I notice late at night that my wrists are itchy and slightly swelling, for example, I might take some Cetrizine, which seems to put a stop to it, and I wake up the next day with no itching or swelling, so again, this might be helpful or it may be coincidental.
If Cetrizine helps, that tells me it might be an allergic reaction, but I've noticed that this occurs so randomly that I can't trace it to anything I've eaten or to other environmental factors. But what I have also noticed is that it tends to happen almost every time I'm sick with a cold or sinus infection. I've experienced it without being sick, but almost always when I am. In fact, I experienced this twice during my last sinus infection. So there may be a link between sinus inflammation and this strange phenomenon, not that's necessarily related to the sinuses themselves, but perhaps to the same pathogen (?).
This condition seems to remain mystery. But hopefully, my input helps in some way, if simply to relieve some of the fear you might have. I hope we do find an answer.
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I have same problem. If you find a good treatment please inform me. I will be very thankful.
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This has been happen ending to my wife and I think it is caused by her high blood pressure Meds. Specifically Lisinopril. I would be interested to find how many of you are using this?
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Yes sadly I am having these symptoms as we speak(type). First my elbow, I was in a back yard so I figured it was a mosquito bite; 2/3 of my arm had swollen up. Now my ring finger is swollen and itchy, I scratched and it flared ridiculously. I am also having random flared rash spots I also believed to be mosquito bites. I really want to find out what this is I have a 1 year son who I don't want in harm's way!
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