Skin writing disease — sometimes also called idiopathic dermographism, chronic idiopathic urticaria (CIU), or dermatographic urticaria- can have a plethora of causes. Doctors mark it idiopathic once they are unable to find a cause… and that was exactly my case. The end diagnosis of my immunologist was that it is “genetic” and incurable. Luckily I did not give up and found a cure.
First shock
In my 7 years-long search for curing it, I stumbled across many articles and stories, but I did not find any solutions. I read a lot about similar conditions — sun, cold, and stress initiated.
Mine was purely pressure related, but the solution I found should be useful even for those not pressure related.
The symptoms first appeared in February of 2010. One day the skin on my back suddenly started itching when I was sitting and leaning back in a chair and the more I scratched it, the more it itched.
I visited an immunologist who prescribed me with anti-histamines called Ewofex, it was based on fexofenadine.
It relieved me of the symptoms, so where the skin itched, was kind of 3D and yellow, it became 2D, red and did not hurt/itch. QoL, “Quality of life” elevated — but the cause was still hidden.
By the way, I found that almost all people writing about this disease have very pale skin — yeah, I have not been going outside either at that time ;)
The doctor told me that I should dose every day with the pills and wait until it heals itself. Yeah, right. Like that ever works, just hiding the symptoms and ignoring the cause. But that is western medicine for you.
Going into analysis
I visited a gastroenterologist and immunologist and they did not find anything either (no parasites, no immune-deficiency, just ELEVATED BILIRUBIN and worse than normal C4 complement.).
Elevated bilirubin is called hyperbilirubinemia, or hyperuricemia — both of which are mostly caused by improper liver function.
When you eat so little that your body goes into a catabolic state and starts burning your muscles to obtain energy. In which I was most of the time — when I was playing PC games I did not feel hunger, because my brain was so preoccupied with the games and bombarded by dopamine from the instantly rewarding stimulus.
The immunologist ended it with “The bilirubin in your blood is of hereditary causes. Does your dad have gout? You will too. It’s in your DNA.”
