I suffer from Depression, but I don't believe that it is related to my CU.
Posted Sep 24, 2018 by 6000
During the colder months, I find this absolutely impacts my mental health when I feel confined to the house. It also impacts the way I feel about my ability to exercise as when I do, I react to the sweat cooling on my skin which also can make me miserable.
In some people I have heard that it becomes very hard for them to deal with. I miss being outdoors in the cooler months but it does not cause me to be depressed I just found things that I can do. I also miss ice cream and cold drinks but again I just found new things to fill the gap for those as well.
Parents noticed my hives at age 5. Got several allergy tests, including food tests. I remember at one time they thought I was allergic to hotdogs. Somehow they figured it out.
At age 14 I hopped out of a pool and had welts all over my body. My uncle (a Dr) said it looked like Raynaud's disease. Later a skin speciliast diagnosed it as Cold Urticaria. I tried anti-histamines for a while but hated the side effects. I prefer t...
i didn't experience any symptoms of cold urticaria until I was 8 years old. I grew up in Upstate Ny and spent a lot of time playing outside and in the snow. The first time I ever had a reaction, I was sledding with a few friends, and went inside and ...
I've had OCD my whole life, but when I was 7 or 8, I started getting constant headaches. I went to lots of doctors, and they still can't figure out why I get so much unbearable headaches. Around the same time, I developed Cold Urticaria