nhoeg
Kava Manliness
Hello all
Some time ago I posted this thread about some allergy-like symptoms that happened to me chronically after an intense period with stress and daily kava drinking.
Unfortunately the symptoms never went away.
Long story short: I have always had some symptoms the day after drinking kava - a red face and intense vasodilation when I was exercising. I thought it was OK, since it all went away if I just waited a few days. This was the happy days untill I had many hard exams and worries which made me consume a lot of kava. Suddenly, these symptoms godt "stuck" in my body, and I now everyday deal with these symptoms.
- red face (especially cheeks)
- red and dry eyes
- vasodilation
The symptoms goes crazy when I exercise - my face looks like a tomato after a quick run. And my eyes looks like a drug-addict after exercise! But I can live with it in my daily life - however it sill annoys me.
I have been to a dermatologist and I have taken every test possible. I don't have any liver issues or anything - my diagnosis for the red skin is "urticaria" which is hives. He says that chronic hives are stress-related and are hard to cure. I also have allergies for many foods, which probably has something to do with it.
This still annoys me. I do not drink kava anymore (I have done it maybe 3-4 times the last year), since it just makes it worse. There is definitly something in kava that my body can't handle. The sad thing though is that the symptoms are somehow stuck in my body!
I know it is stress related, and I am fully aware of this. I'm taking ST. johns wort to control the bad and stressful feelings, however it is not helping with my red face and red eyes. Life happens and stress also happens.
@violet was friendly enough to send me a lot of info about histamine intolerance which is a possible explanation of all this. However I think the elimination-diet is too rough for me to keep that strict. Eating and drinking is a social thing for me. It is very hard just to eat vegetables and water for 3 months, especially when you live in a dorm with only other students like my self, where eating is the no.1 social thing to do.
I'm pretty lost on what to do. Maybe I should go for the strict diet (trust me I have said this to my self many times).
Really, I think it all comes down to stress. And that is one hard f*cker to completely eliminate!
I still think about how the hell this has happened. Im positive that kava has something to do with it, since these symptoms used to happen after drinking kava. Is it perhaps possible, that I have been drinking too much kava combined with stress, that my nervous system has blocked the histamine-inhibitors forever? I don't know....
Sorry all for seeming like a total wuss here when I'm constantly complaining about these symptoms, but believe me, I am annoyed by this shit. My dermatologist cannot come with a logical explanation on the connection to kava. Maybe you guys know something?
Some time ago I posted this thread about some allergy-like symptoms that happened to me chronically after an intense period with stress and daily kava drinking.
Unfortunately the symptoms never went away.
Long story short: I have always had some symptoms the day after drinking kava - a red face and intense vasodilation when I was exercising. I thought it was OK, since it all went away if I just waited a few days. This was the happy days untill I had many hard exams and worries which made me consume a lot of kava. Suddenly, these symptoms godt "stuck" in my body, and I now everyday deal with these symptoms.
- red face (especially cheeks)
- red and dry eyes
- vasodilation
The symptoms goes crazy when I exercise - my face looks like a tomato after a quick run. And my eyes looks like a drug-addict after exercise! But I can live with it in my daily life - however it sill annoys me.
I have been to a dermatologist and I have taken every test possible. I don't have any liver issues or anything - my diagnosis for the red skin is "urticaria" which is hives. He says that chronic hives are stress-related and are hard to cure. I also have allergies for many foods, which probably has something to do with it.
This still annoys me. I do not drink kava anymore (I have done it maybe 3-4 times the last year), since it just makes it worse. There is definitly something in kava that my body can't handle. The sad thing though is that the symptoms are somehow stuck in my body!
I know it is stress related, and I am fully aware of this. I'm taking ST. johns wort to control the bad and stressful feelings, however it is not helping with my red face and red eyes. Life happens and stress also happens.
@violet was friendly enough to send me a lot of info about histamine intolerance which is a possible explanation of all this. However I think the elimination-diet is too rough for me to keep that strict. Eating and drinking is a social thing for me. It is very hard just to eat vegetables and water for 3 months, especially when you live in a dorm with only other students like my self, where eating is the no.1 social thing to do.
I'm pretty lost on what to do. Maybe I should go for the strict diet (trust me I have said this to my self many times).
Really, I think it all comes down to stress. And that is one hard f*cker to completely eliminate!
I still think about how the hell this has happened. Im positive that kava has something to do with it, since these symptoms used to happen after drinking kava. Is it perhaps possible, that I have been drinking too much kava combined with stress, that my nervous system has blocked the histamine-inhibitors forever? I don't know....
Sorry all for seeming like a total wuss here when I'm constantly complaining about these symptoms, but believe me, I am annoyed by this shit. My dermatologist cannot come with a logical explanation on the connection to kava. Maybe you guys know something?