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Loss of appetite, mild to severe full-body itch, headaches, what's the punchline?

( Symptoms may or may not be related.)

Diagnose me! A few weeks ago, once fall really started to hit my backyard, my appetite began to change. I'm eating less, in both amount and variety.

Occasionally, I start to get a small itch. Ignorable, but then it begins to spread until suddenly I'm doubling over in pain and itching most everywhere above my waist for about 25 - 45 seconds. This generally follows a little after a sudden change in exertion. I normally sit around, but if I suddenly start acting up and around, I'll burst into itching. No rash left from itching. This started about the same time last year and continued into mid-early spring.

Lastly, I have mild insomnia and chronic headaches ranging from a little congestion to a small migraine.

Any diagnostic types getting any ideas?

Update:

Also, before any of the symptoms occurs, I had either severe pneumonia or the flu, but I was on death's door for a few days, if that's any help.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Hi,

    I am always impressed that there is oftentimes some good advice and good links from people helping others through Yahoo_Answers.

    You have possibly become allergic to something or might be suffering the symptoms from lean nutrition to your organs which is my own disease, although I truly hope I can become totally healed of it.

    Itch and rash problems can be miserable and will always get worse if not resolved, so I would strongly encourage you to see a ‘good’ doctor about it and become a ‘good’ doctor yourself from sites like the following is the best ‘advice’ anyone might give you today. [SEE: <> http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/skin-rash/SN00016 AND http://dermatology.about.com/cs/dermphotos/a/dermg... <>]

    IF you are interested I will share what I have learned from my own and others itch and rash problems with the hope it might help you today or someday in your future.

    I have seen them all to be either all nutritional and ‘dryness’ related or partly nutritional and/or viral or bacterial or fungal or parasitical lice etc or an allergic reaction to some things that are toxic in one’s food or air or skin applications or meds. If meds are needed Monostat 7 for yeast infections has worked for me for moist jock itch regions also, since it is the same antifungal that is in most jock itch meds.

    So some people like myself react allergically to the chlorine or fluoride that is being re-absorbed through the skin after the hot water washes out all the skin oils or to a skin lotion or meds or toxins in one’s foods. In addition to toxins in these things I have also become allergic to the Vitamin Palmitate enrichment within milk products. I suggest organic cow’s milk or organic goat’s milk for babies until they can be weaned to solid food like green beans, lentils, or boiled/de-acidified spinach.

    When my liver started to become severely weakened from bad nutrition and too many mineral supplements that were toxic and I never knew it, the first sign was rashes and itchings when I became a little warm under the covers at night, in the backs of my knees and inside the arms that eventually spread to other places.

    My own problems with my fragile liver began to become ‘very’ severe after several months of eating considerable nutritional yeast that had much too high of copper %DV's. After having a severe copper taste for several weeks I eventually recognized that the base grains %DV's did not have near as much copper. So I concluded that the super high copper %DV’s was not a non-toxic plant source of copper within the grain, but was a toxic metallic copper from the pots the yeast was brewed inside.

    IF I may let me explain further why if I were you I would make the choice to look for "toxic-triggers" and to reduce them in order to allow the skin/organs to become stronger.

    In the past I also have had many problems with asthma and with skin rashes and itchings. I have learned that all the things that trigger these problems are very very toxic to everyone's health and I have learned to ‘run’ from them.

    I also 'eventually' learned that my nutrition was below what it needed to be, so that I could easily have an allergic reaction to something that was toxic, AND my skin and/or lymph and/or kidney and/or liver organs were not strong enough to deal with it quickly, so the rash/itchings were a continual 'warning.'

    I have since learned that better nutrition will make the skin and 'purifying' organs and entire body stronger in order that they can more easily deal with toxins that we all might have a hard time identifying and running from. (Google browse: “Pellagra-Wikipedia” beriberi scurvy & rickets)

    I know this from my own experiences with myself and others since these were also my triggers and when we are all under stress we usually consume-apply things that are more toxic to us, whether alcohol, cigarettes, pharmaceuticals, or eating too many calories or high- glycemic calories from carb-sugar-starches.

    Toxins include chlorine and fluoride in the drinking and shower water, or pesticides preservatives nitrates chemicals synthetics or enrichments in foods, or pharmaceuticals you have consumed or applied on your skin, or molds or smoke or aerosols.

    It took much research and money and sufferings to learn that all of my triggers were due to poor nutritional choices. My hope is that you will learn from my past experiences for the sake of your future health and longevity and would methodically look for your own triggers and would thoughtfully consider the nutritional component and then make the choices to become stronger.

    My best to you,

    A1 – nutritionist

    Source:

    IF you are interested, I feel I have become a quasi-expert on rashes and pruritus itchings after many years of off and on flare ups. So to do my part to make a difference in the world I now take a little time each week to help others understand why better nutrition is so important, and I have posted much of my own story via the link at: <> http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200910...

    <>. I hope you will have learned something today from my own mistakes and would not duplicate them. My best to you and yours. A1- nutrition

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

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    Source(s): Eczema Solutions http://teres.info/CureEczemaForEver
  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Possibly Swine Flu

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    4 years ago

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