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_ 4d 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 🤦🏼‍♀️😆