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Posted by candyguru
 - November 16, 2013, 07:22:41 PM
My wife has demographism / solar urticaria. 
Posted by YouKnowWho
 - November 13, 2013, 10:55:42 AM
DS2 has highly twitchy skin, uticaria, etc.

We have two things happen with spts - either we cannot get anything to react (including histamine) or it goes insane.  I swear our doctor does the testing anyway for poos and giggles.  He tends to base true results off the blood test.
Posted by notashrimpwimp
 - November 10, 2013, 08:12:07 PM
Is that where your skin develops welts from pressure and you can write on your skin? If so, I've been diagnosed with it and my skin tests remain pretty accurate with a few false positives. My controls remain as they should be. I will have to ask my allergist along with all the questions I've been saving up.
Posted by krasota
 - November 10, 2013, 11:47:46 AM
I can't do skin allergy testing unless it's the dead of winter.  Otherwise I just react to everything, including the negative control.  So lowering my allergen load is essential if I want skin testing.  I don't really have any need for skin testing at this point in my life, though, so it's a non-issue.
Posted by CMdeux
 - November 10, 2013, 09:23:40 AM
Yes, me-- which is why I haven't bothered with SPT for shellfish.   Sure, it'd be positive.  And probably 50-50 odds that so would the negative control and everything else, too.

Posted by Macabre
 - November 10, 2013, 08:51:40 AM
Not dx but I seem to get something like this when my allergy load is high and I forget my daily meds.
Posted by twinturbo
 - November 09, 2013, 03:55:30 PM
Is anyone else in this unfortunate category of diagnosed dermatrographic urticaria? Ideally in regard to SPTs.