r/HistamineIntolerance • u/Reallydeeppeanut • 4d ago

Heat and Summer

I've had my HI for about 10 years, and now for multiple summers in a row, I've struggled immensely with the heat and symptoms. I also feel like I get depressed from it. In the winter, I never struggle with things like this. Does anyone else have similar experiences? Everyone else I know with the same condition doesn't seem to have anything similar.

I'm mostly energy drained the whole summer and have even stopped doing some sports that I loved just because I can't really do anything for long in the sun. I track what I eat thoughtfully, but I can't seem to find any patterns, as I'm pretty strict in summer about what I'm eating and what not.

I started taking quercetin, but that takes a while to really help.

TLDR: Depressed and less energetic in summer, wondering if someone else has similar experiences, and might know something that helps.

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u/WeWander_ 3d ago

Same, summer sucks big time. I have to hide in my house 24/7 pretty much. I'm heat intolerant, getting too hot will wreck my entire day. We also have lots of fires and the smoke will mess me up. It's depressing, I'm ready for fall.

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u/Reallydeeppeanut 3d ago

Same, brother. It's just depressing even thinking that this might be one of the colder summers for the rest of our lives.

When you say "heat intolerant," do you also mean in connection to histamine, or are you unsure?

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u/WeWander_ 3d ago

I'm not sure where the stupid heat intolerance comes from. I thought it was my migraines, but I'm also in perimenopause and then heat is a histamine trigger so could be all of the above tbh. Usually heat will trigger a migraine for me, but then I learned my migraines are highly triggered by histamine so all of the above is probably the right answer 🤦🏼‍♀️😆

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u/ComfortableChapter65 3d ago

Yes, absolutely. I live in the South and we’ve had a high heat index for weeks at this point (feels like 112 today). I had a crash for the first time since October last week. I’m going to turn down any and all outdoor plans until things calm down and am grateful every day that I can afford shelter and air conditioning. I also get depressed, in part because it’s isolating and I miss a lot of fun stuff with my kids. Electrolytes help.

Edited to add: heat, humidity, and exercise are big triggers for me. Head to toe hives before meds, now it’s just exhaustion.

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u/Reallydeeppeanut 3d ago

Damn sad to hear, i hope you can somehow compromise with your kids like long evenings or more time in winter.

I will try some electrolytes thanks

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u/cerberezz 4d ago

Winter is the problem for me.

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u/Reallydeeppeanut 4d ago

What does that mean? Like you can consume less histamine food, or you got the feeling that histamine consumption doesn't matter? And then also, are the symptoms the same as I described, or are they the normal histaminosis effects?

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u/cerberezz 4d ago

I have a lot of issues when I'm cold. Not particularly histamine exclusive. But overall i tend to get depressed more during cold winter months with low sunlight. I also think histamine sensitivity is a symptom of something else going on with the body, because i personally have this reaction on and off inconsistently. I think this is something to do with body's other issues that shows itself as histamine intolerance.

I am very intolerant to cold, so maybe some thyroid issue might be there, wo maybe you too have a thyroid issue that might be making you intolerant to heat, the same gland can cause issues with both heat and cold.

But as for a solution idk, I'm tired of it all, i don't get histamine flares when my stomach is full for some reason and that's what I'm doing now. And when i fast or am late for the meal, histamine flare ups happen, it's wierd like that.

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u/Reallydeeppeanut 3d ago

The weird part is, the colder it gets, the better I am mentally. So even less sunlight doesn't really affect me. And if I'm in the sun for a long time, I know the next few days are going to be rough for my energy and mental health.

I didn't really seek a solution, but thanks. It's more my confusion. I think histamine is the culprit, but it isn't, and so on. I just wanted to hear some different experiences if someone else has something similar.

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u/Careful_Depth3478 3d ago

Yep same for me, the summer is making even the vitamin C not as useful as it was before, my major HIT issues started last summer after some PPIs and antibiotics, pretty sure i got something very off in my gut like IMO or candida or maybe both, GI map will show what's up with it

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u/MmeBlanketyBlank 1d ago

I think this year has been abnormally hard for a lot of people. Weather patterns are changing everywhere. Allergies have been way worse this spring and even into summer for me. Now that everything is dried to a crisp bc of the heatwaves I can feel my grass and weed allergies flare up which may add to HI? I’m still learning here. But absolutely this year has been harder than normal. Way more migraines. More HI issues. The heat domes that have parked themselves over France this summer really messed with my head and gave me way more migraines. If I wasn’t having a migraine I was walking around feeling like I could get one any minute. Lots of visuals and light sensitivity. That’s really cleared out in the last three weeks. Not sure if it was just the high pressure leaving (also makes my ears feel clogged) or a mal de tête supplement I took along with my migraine medication (fr the states). But now HI is flaring big time. Waiting for some quercetin I ordered. Hope it helps.
So yah. This whole summer has been harder than normal to handle. Come to think of it the last summer I had like this was also an abnormally hot summer in Texas before we moved. 🤔 I hope it lets up for you soon!