Insight for Gut & Hand Eczema Flair Ups
***I just want to post and see if anyone else is experiencing similar symptoms or have in the past?***
For the past 5 years or so, I have developed gut issues. In the beginning, it was chronic bloating, gas and with on and off constipation and minor diarrhea about 75% of the time. I never really knew what would set me off. In correlation with all that, I was dealing with chronic hand eczema flair ups. ALWAYS in the same spot (That webbed area between your finger and thumb on my right hand).
I went to the doctor and was put on various creams, and was told it was due to my previous job of 14 years (cosmetology, which made sense at the time). As for my gut, I was told that I needed to take probiotics. Soon after that, I had a terrible flair up of full body hives and went to an allergist. It was then I found out that I had a milk protein allergy - this was three years ago. The allergy was something I had as an infant, grew out of it during my childhood and it resurfaced the year I turned 30.
I completely cut out dairy, obviously, and slowly but surely the hives went away and I was starting to feel less bloated and the hand eczema started going away. Until it came back....
I no longer deal with hives, thank goodness, but I still get gut triggers about 30-40% of the time, and still no idea what causes it. Its random and I go back and forth between regular, constipated and slight diarrhea. At the same time, I have realized that every time my gut acts up, the hand eczema appears, in the same spot as it always has. When I am in a flair up, it typically goes away at night, I wake up and about 30 minutes later it pops up.
I have been back to the allergist and I am negative for a all other foods allergies, my doctor has ruled out crohns, lupus, diabetes etc (in fact my blood panels are always perfect), and all they want to do is put me on antibacterial medicine to kill everything and rule out gut bacterial imbalances.
I am skeptical.....and do not know what to do.
I have switched probiotics to an anti-bloat/gas one and started taking digestive enzymes with heavier meals. But I do not really know if its doing anything.
I appreciate whoever reads this and takes the time to at least let me vent out loud!
Any insight would be helpful!