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Cold urticaria

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threeeggsontoast · 19/05/2025 08:28

Just wondering if anyone else has this? I had it for years but it seemed to become more obvious in my 30s so I now take Fexofenadine 180mg on prescription every day - that’s made a huge difference to my life.

Previously, I’d walk down the freezer section in the supermarket and would break out in hives. Or sometimes just waking up on a cold morning to an unheated house, it would start before I’d barely got out of bed. It came to a head one hot day when I was driving with the air conditioning on. My feet and legs got so insanely itchy that I had to pull the car over as I didn’t think it was safe to drive while I wanted to tear my skin off!

Now have anti hists by the bed and it’s the first thing I take every morning. It rarely bothers me now, though if it’s a very cold day or if it’s a hot day and I am suddenly exposed to a fan/AC, I can feel my extremities getting hot and tingly. But it’s much better than it was.

No one believes me when I say I am allergic to the cold. 😝

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Fitzcarraldo353 · 19/05/2025 08:47

I had idiopathic urticaria for years on and off but one of my triggers was cold. So annoying!

Now I'm on HRT my urticaria have disappeared so I actually think it was one of my first perimenopause symptoms.

SquashPenguin · 19/05/2025 20:24

I have dermagraphic urticaria and no one believes me when I say I’m allergic to myself! Well my scratches technically but it’s still me that caused it! Strangely enough the only time it doesn’t happen is when I’m in hot and humid conditions. I’ve had it all my life but it’s so annoying!

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