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ter started having severe hot flashes but thought my menses was coming nope the following week they got worse and i started getting elevated rate rate with them and severe insomnia depression emotional etc every dr pointed to menopause i noticed my hot flashes lessened when i would take acetaminophen clearly there was some inflammation happening finally my hubby talked to one of his dr colleagues they said to to add benedryl to my current tylenol pm ritual i did finally managed to sleep all night for the first time in over a month my fitbit still showed that i wake at the same times but not from severe hot flashes just baby ones looked up to see correlation histamine and primrose oil concentrated omega 6s elevate cortisol levels and zap estrogen progesterone and dhea hello i learned not long ago from 23andme that i have histamine issues from mutations and dao and com issues when i read this article about the invisible itching i knew i was in the right place for years i have had terrible itching on my scalp no doctor dermatologist included found anything no rash flaking etc were ever found it immediately stopped after taking antihistamines i take a slew of supplements and really need help tailoring and record keeping i also need quality sleep although i am sleeping better my sleep cycle still shows spikes at the same time every night any advice would be great recommendations on dr to see i don t think i will be able to see one for several months due to the covid 19 but i can start looking thanks in advance reply themenopausehistamineconnection says april 7 2020 at 11 29 am you sound like you re on the right track if you are you won t need to see a doctor at this crazy time start a food diary to keep track of what might be causing you issues and keep reading my blog about what might help thanks for writing stay safe stay well dale reply themenopausehistamineconnection says april 10 2020 at 7 29 pm start a journal write down foods and your reactions and what supplements you take and when and those reactions once you start you ll start to see patterns emerge i ve written a lot about that take a look at the supplements i suggest and search my site for my articles on olive oil you won t need to see a doctor if you solve it yourself which is possible good luck and thanks for sharing dale reply anne says april 10 2020 at 6 08 pm love your blog i m on month 8 of suffering with histamine intolerance it s been a total nightmare i have seen many doctors and had biopsies and blood tests and doctors found nothing prednisone works awesome but i obviously can t stay on this long term i finally went to a functional medicine doctor who explained the high histamine issue and put me on quercetin and other supplements i m still not healed but i m slowly getting better i have added dao supplements to my day and it is very helpful every day is a new day and like many others suffering from this i try to stay positive thanks for the tip about olive leaf extract and ginger root i m going to try both reply themenopausehistamineconnection says april 10 2020 at 7 26 pm i m glad i ve helped search my site for information on olive oil and it s relation to dao formation i didn t want to take the supplements so i researched alternatives olive oil can help thanks for writing dale reply heather dhume says june 28 2020 at 8 02 pm anne what kind of dao supplement are you taking reply themenopausehistamineconnection says june 28 2020 at 8 10 pm just to jump in search my blog for all the articles on olive oil it s a natural way to increase dao i use it every day in my morning smoothie i think it s had a big impact on my management of my intolerance dale yolanda staff says april 21 2020 at 6 54 am hi thank you for this great information i m 49 and have suddenly started having night sweats and histamine reaction i ve also got perioral dermatitis around my mouth which i understand can be caused by histamine intolerance can you tell me what supplements you are taking to help with histamine reply themenopausehistamineconnection says april 21 2020 at 12 20 pm please take a look at the supplements tab on the top of the blog s page you ll find all the information there i hope that helps dale reply janie says may 23 2020 at 3 09 pm i ve once again rediscovered this page i found that i had provided a link to it five years ago on a neuropathy forum in my quest to discover the cause of my body wide neurological symptoms i was so close but apparently had to suffer another five years to believe histamine was the issue i m 58 now i don t suffer the normal signs of histamine intolerance hives usual allergy symptoms gastric symptoms etc mine are neurological and cardiac but i know they are definitely a response to histamine now my comfort level has increased dramatically just by watching my diet the episodes of feeling like i m being electrocuted or burned from the inside out have reduced significantly i did discover that i have one solidly researched mutation on the hnmt gene that is almost certainly causing reduced levels of that important histamine clearing enzyme and i also have another mutation on the same gene that may be having even more impact i speculate that low levels of this enzyme vs dao may be why my symptoms are hitting me neurologically i ve read at least one thing that says hnmt is responsible for clearing histamine from your brain and another that says hnmt cleans up the histamine that dao doesn t dr afrin said hnmt is responsible for clearing your body of the histamine your mast cells produce vs ingested histamine but since i respond to histamine in food would that mean my mast cells are producing histamine in response to histamine laden food as if having a poorly understood disorder isn t bad enough i have to have an unusual manifestation of a poorly understood disorder regardless thank you for this site and i m looking forward to reading all the other information here to try to learn more to help myself reply maureen says may 23 2020 at 7 37 pm i m sure you ve already had this checked out but just in case you haven t have you had your b12 level checked a couple of years ago my toes and the tips of my fingers had gone numb my doctor couldn t figure out why so i did some google research and asked him to check my b12 level the test showed that i was extremely low on b12 and probably had been for many years i v been on monthly b12 shots for 2 years and i can feel my toes and fingers again many other b12 deficiency symptoms have also been resolved it s a cheap and easy test that everyone should have during their yearly physicals reply janie says may 24 2020 at 1 43 am hi maureen yes thanks that s one of the first things my neurologist checked back in 2014 and my b12 was actually high i had started supplementing when my symptoms started he told me to stop supplementing and it s returned to normal levels in subsequent testing janie maureen says may 23 2020 at 7 38 pm sorry i meant to also say that b12 deficiency can cause neurological problems and anxiety and depression reply ana says july 13 2020 at 6 19 am this is very helpful for me because i m suffering exactly wat you explain in this article thank you so much i ll take alll your advices reply nydia says july 15 2020 at 2 58 pm been going crazy with chronic itching going thru menopause glad i found your site have had problems sleeping with itching all over body going to try out the supplements recommended thank you reply themenopausehistamineconnection says july 17 2020 at 1 40 pm come back some day and let me know if it s helped thanks for writing dale reply alisca says august 24 2020 at 7 24 pm does histamine effect your mouth during menopause burning itchy sensations dry i have had every test doctors and oral surgeons i feel like my allergies were 10 times as bad this year thanks reply venessa says august 24 2020 at 10 03 pm yes absolutely it does google histamine intolerance and dry mouth the bane of me for the past 2 years there are different histamine receptors all over the body remember histamine is a neurotransmitter so messages are sent all over by these neurotransmitters drinking lots of water can help along with other options if you are on instagram follow dr becky campbell who wrote the book the 4 phase histamine reset plan and follow thewellnesswitches who also give amazing insight reply themenopausehistamineconnection says august 24 2020 at 10 43 pm you can also look at my supplements tab and search olive oil on my blog to look for ways to help get your body back into balance dale l fletcher says october 22 2020 at 7 35 pm exactly what vitamins did you take that information would be invaluable help reply themenopausehistamineconnection says october 22 2020 at 11 45 pm if you look at the supplements tab all the information is there reply bonnie medd says november 29 2020 at 2 50 pm oh you might just be my miracle i m almost 58 years old i went through menopause at 51 with very little issues a few night sweats but no real hot flashes last year november 2019 i woke up one day with horrible hives all over they were more like welts than hives i was hospitalized three times near anaphylactic and treated with zyrtec pepcid and steroids i ve been to allergists and immunologists i ve been to naturopaths and regular md s i literally woke up one day like this and it never went away a year later and i m still dealing with it i ve done all the things low histamine diet healing my gut also many supplements where it s gotten better it has not gone away i wanted to die really you beautiful lady this morning on november 29th 2020 have given me a new hope i will come back to this page and update you once i read through your wealth of information on your blog and start to implement some or all of your suggestions reply themenopausehistamineconnection says november 29 2020 at 4 01 pm such a lovely message i really hope my blog helps you heal i have complete faith that you can please do keep in touch i d love to hear how you re doing dale reply lizsherbourne says december 1 2020 at 5 53 pm gaba and inositol made all my symptoms disappear i didnt have to take both just one of them unfortunately i developed allergies to them so i had to stop taking them i have discovered that there is something else going on aside from histamine from food and drink and it s to do with neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin gaba and inositol are serotogenic and calm everything down neurologically and when the balance tips towards serotonin i could eat anything i wanted and drink wine every day i took gaba initially to calm down my immune system because rhodiola had stimulated it to such an extent i erupted in eczema i was itching too the gaba along with bicarbonate of soda stopped the itching our cocker spaniel charlie was itching like mad at the time too and i gave him small amounts of gaba it didn t agree with him but his itching stopped and never came back serotonin is calming dopamine is excititory there is alot more to it but this is the basic premise of what i have discovered reply ruth says december 2 2020 at 6 38 am that is very interesting lizsherbourne i don t have the itching but i have rhinitis terrible sneezing ear eczema i ve never had allergies in my life before i am 10 years post surgical menopausal i have never tried gaba but i am interested in trying it i was hoping it would help with the anxiety depression that comes with all this reply ronda says february 6 2021 at 4 26 pm hello i have suffered from histamine intolerance for over 10 years and just figured it out recently after many doctor visits research elimination etc the histamine intolerance was definitely triggered by menopause i just wanted to throw something else i have discovered out to everyone i started taking a dao supplement which worked great then i had a routine check up where my b12 levels were checked my b12 was extremely low and this did not make sense to me because i am getting plenty of b12 in my diet this lead me to the conclusion that it must be an absorption problem as it turns out taking a dao supplement can interfere with the absorption of b12 i had to stop taking the dao because being b12 deficient is not something you want to mess with it can cause permanent damage just wanted to put that out there for those that are supplementing with dao to keep an eye on your b12 levels reply mokaydavis aol com says february 6 2021 at 4 41 pm i have b12 deficiency pernecious anemia your ability to use b12 diminishes as you age anyone over the age of 50 should have their b12 levels checked every time you have a physical also if you are taking a supplement that contains b12 your blood test results could be distorted just because your blood test shows b12 in your blood it doesn t mean your body is able to use it because my body doesn t produce product intrinsic factor i will be receiving b12 shots for the rest of my life i can t tell you how much better i feel since i started getting shots a lot of problems i blamed on menopause and histamine problems were cured with regular b12 shots reply jane gilbert says february 6 2021 at 6 28 pm very true regarding your body not being able to make use of it quite by accident i discovered i have low levels of an enzyme called biotinidase without adequate levels of the enzyme you can t make use of the ample quantities of biotin that is available in food severely deficient people can be in big trouble if they don t take a biotin supplement even though my levels are low i wasn t supposed to be affected but lo and behold when i started supplementing my problems with fasting hypoglycemia went away if i went 6 hours without eating i was in trouble but now i can t drive myself into that state no matter how hard i try reply maureen k davis says february 6 2021 at 7 04 pm wouldn t it be nice if medical professionals looked for the cause of a physical problem before they started prescribing powerful medications to treat the symptoms of a problem i self diagnosed my b12 deficiency my toes were starting to go numb and i was constantly tired and dizzy my doctor did diagnose my iron deficiency but i googled my symptoms and asked him to test my b12 level it came back so low he immediately prescribed loading doses of b12 since i eat a lot of meat there was no reason for me to have such low b12 levels so he decided i have absorption problems reply presouz says february 6 2021 at 7 14 pm on the second side of the coin i just wanna let you know that i ve diagnosed myself with low b 12 even though my b12 came back higher by four times and it should ve been but i found out later on can i have mthfr which means my body can t process synthetic b12 it just sits in my body same with synthetic folic acid i had an mthfr677g mutation i started taking natural food grade b 12 and folate and things changed around in a yeat maureen k davis says february 6 2021 at 7 24 pm there are many reasons why some people have trouble using the b12 t...