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Posted 8/26/2009 2:25 PM (GMT -7)
Just curious if any of you have suffered chronic urticaria (hives) with your thyroid problems?
Posted 8/26/2009 3:44 PM (GMT -7)
Hello,

Yes I have hypothyroidism and have had chronic hives for almost 6 months now. cry

Posted 8/28/2009 10:07 AM (GMT -7)
Actually it was after being treated for Hashimoto's (hypothyroidism) 2 1/2 years ago that my hives began to stop. I had them all of my life.
Posted 8/28/2009 6:53 PM (GMT -7)
I just realized that my zantac (an antacid and histamine 2 blocker) has probably been interfering with my thyroid medication and causing it to lose its effectiveness.  This could explain why I've been feeling so hypo! cry    I'm going to start taking my zantac at least 4 hours after I take my thyroid meds in the morning.  Sigh.  My Dr. didn't tell me these could interfere with eachother, I just happened  to see it on the internet.
Posted 12/11/2012 3:11 PM (GMT -7)
Dear Fed Up with Hives,
Your doc should do an IgE (i think) antibody test for you. My understanding if it is positive or a reactive IgE that helps them confirm autoimmunity. In that case your immune system is is in overdrive. Somehow it has to do with your your gut and I'm taking probiotics and seem to get some relief from the hives. Hives are an indication of inflammation - not cancer or anything as bad as that.
Posted 12/11/2012 3:16 PM (GMT -7)
I'm going to ask my doc if increasing my Thyroxine will help. There seems to be some medical literature with PubMed on the issue. The hives are the symptom and not the cause - the cause in autoimmunity is your helper fighting infection cells cannot tell an invader like a virus or bacteria from your own tissue and they immune system goes in overdrive and stays there. Often this occurs post viral infection of some type or another and no one knows why this reaction is triggered. Some say the proliferation of toxins in our enviornment. - I would agree - our food system is bad in this country. We are exposed to all kinds of chemicals and substances. It is an autoimmune epidemic out there (more than cancer and heart disease I'm told)
Posted 12/11/2012 3:17 PM (GMT -7)
Good to know about the Zantac, I take that with my Thyroid meds and at night. Thanks.
Posted 12/11/2012 3:26 PM (GMT -7)
Correction the IgE test confirms an allergy and ANA test looks at autoimmunity. Sorry , got all those test mixed up. Imagine that. LOL
Posted 1/25/2013 9:29 AM (GMT -7)
i also have hives and hashimotos. hives started out of nowhere about 10 weeks ago. went to the allergist, they said no skin test until i was off meds. they gave me 10 days of prednisone and zyrtec twice a day...didnt help. i woke up with a headache like 8 weeks ago and took an ibuprofen, i vomited immediatley then ended up in the ER with swelling all over my face. allergist said maybe i am allergic to ibuprofen. finally did bloodwork three weeks and my thyroid antibodies were at 1044 and some other thyroid levels were high, not my t3 and t4 though they were normal. so the allergist said its the hives are bc of my thyroid, not an allergy. i went to the endo, started me on 88 mg of tirosint and got a shot of hyrocortisone.allergist told me to take two zyrtecs a day and hydroxyzine every 6 hours it did not work. the hives were completely out of control last week, i had to leave work they were so bad. i took it upon myelf to take two benedryl and i started to swell everywhere, lips, chin, eyes. i ended up in the ER. the allergist called me in a 6 day medrol pack, 2 zyrtec a day, hydroxyzine every 6 hrs and the tironsint. started the medrol on friday night, i woke up clear on sat, but saturday nigh my lip started to swell out of nowhere. woke up sunday morning with mild hives. they were gone mon, tues and wed(wed was the last day of medrol) I woke up on thursday with them and i have them right now. it seems like everything i do aggravates the hives. if i were tight jeans then all hell breaks loose. i read that selenium helps lower antibodies and that zantac will help wit hives. so far today i have taken 2 zyrtec, tirosint, 1 hydroxyzine, 200 mg selenium and i just bought zantacand took two....lets see what happens. im seriously starting to lose my mind..i am miserable.
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