Hello, I have been following this site for a couple of weeks. I was recently diagnosed with Hashi's and have been having a horrible bout of hives for several months. I had hives for a year about 9 years ago, so have probably had this problem for some time. I am not getting much relief from my antihistamines either. I read your blog, and tried the Pepsid. My hives went away for 2 days, then came back with a vengeance. Do you take the chewable pepsid, or the pill form? What mg is your pepsid?
Hi, sorry I have not replied. I havent been on here in a while. I will have to research the study I found. I was taking atarax and pepcid and my hives went away.
I recently went to a thyroid specialist and he took me off armour thyroid and put me on synthroid. Its only been 3 weeks so I cant say too much about that yet.
The atarat and pepcid cured my hives. If you look up h1 and h2 blockers, it will give you a list of what meds they are. I will see if I can find the study and send it to you.
I take Zyrtec and Flonase.
I also take Zantac. I have Pepsid, but don't take it as it doesn't help heartburn much.
So are you saying I should return to the Pepcid?
What about my Zyrtec? Should I switch to Benadryl?
This is wonderful information! Do you have the internet link for the study?
:) Tamra
I have posted before about having hashi's and the hives. I found a study done that I explained in a comment above. Just thought I would touch base and give you all an update. It is sept. 30 and still no hives.
I was a very healthy person before becoming very ill over a year ago. I ate healthy. I exercised about 5 days per week. I was my ideal weight. Then I had a stressful episode with family issues last summer. That's when I got this rash on my head along with extreme fatigue, and the doc said I had Shingles without testing my rash. I kept getting this so called 'Shingles' monthly and I became more ill. My D dropped to an 18. My rashes were even worse.
Now I am on Synthroid and able to exercise again. My scalp rashes are better since I went to a dermo and he gave me Nizoral.
Now I keep breaking out in these hives on my right side, but it's not as severe as when my D was low. I am taking several vitamins, including B12 and D.
Tamra
This subject is very interesting. So many of us with Hasi/Hypo have skin problems. I had hives that were pretty much confined to my face and neck area for many years, during my 20's and 30's. I could never figure out what the cause was, it seemed to be triggered by stress. It went away for quite some time. Then 3 years ago I was told I have Hasi's. I didn't have a hive problem at the time, but I have had in the past 2 years...mine are usually in small bunches. I noticed a pattern with rising TSH..I'll get an intense ITCH, when I scratch, it gets worse and I then get tiny hives, and the more I scratch the wider the area of little hives gets. Must be associated somehow. It seems that if we can have so many other skin related problems--I also get boils in strange places when things aren't right.and we've all had the dry skin thing!!! Makes sense to me that the hives and hashi's are related.