Get your health question answered instantly from our pool of 18000+ doctors from over 80 specialties
127 Doctors Online

By proceeding, I accept the Terms and Conditions

Dr. Andrew Rynne
MD
Dr. Andrew Rynne

Family Physician

Exp 50 years

HCM Blog Instant Access to Doctors
HCM BlogQuestions Answered
HCM Blog Satisfaction

Suggest Treatment For Anxiety And Panic Attacks, Fever At Night And IBS

Hello Dr,

I hope all is well.

I have recently been looking into histamine as a cause for a few of my problems and I would like to get your take on it if you don't mind.

I believe I have a histamine intolerance. Below are a few things I have been experiencing for quite some time now:

1. My skin gets really itchy and when I scratch it, it turns bright red within a matter of seconds. My dermatologist said it is Dermographism although I do not get big welts. I read Dermographism is from the body creating too much histamine. My skin also may not be itchy bit just gets red blotches on it for no reason. I have attached a picture here.

2. I suffer from Anxiety and Panic Attacks.

3. My feet get really hot at night and my body temperature rises.

4. I have a hard time getting to sleep and staying asleep.

5. I blow my nose alot.

6. I wake up never feeling rested.

7. My eyes burn sometimes and I cannot tolerate really bright day light.

8. I have been diagnosed with IBS (although it seems to be getting better).

9. My glucose fasting was 6.1 and suggests pre-diabetes even though I exercise regularly. I am 5' 8" and weigh 128 pounds so I am not overweight.

10. My A.M. cortisol was 743 (so very high).

11. Abdominal pain followed by abnormal discharge (this has been happening on and off for years).

12. PMS

Those are just a few of my symptoms. I know Histamine Intolerance is hard to diagnose so I'm not even sure that I do have it but my doctor seems to thing changing my diet cannot hurt and may be a good thing to try. I have switched to a low histamine diet a couple of days ago and have added the below vitamins into my diet (I may be overdoing it on the vitamins so please tell me if I am). Are these the right vitamins? Should I add or take anything out?

I am taking:

Vitamin D
Inositol
Theanine
Methylsulfonylmethane
Quercetin
Phosphorylated Serine
Holy Basil/Rhodiola
Vitamin C
B6
Marine Algae
Magnesium Byglycinate
Phosphatidyl Choline
Magnesium Citrate

I would really appreciate your thoughts on all of this.

Thank you!!

Best,
Tina
posted on Sun, 25 Jan 2015
Twitter