Not your typical allergy -- Estrogen

Are you taking estrogen supplements? Please don't even mention or think about suicide. Stress will make your allergies worse. I sympathize with you since I, too, suffer from allergies. I am not sure if I was experiencing an allergic reaction to estrogen, but before I completed menopause, I used to wake up in the middle of the night scratching my skin raw. This happened every month, about ten days before my period. It would last for several days and then stop. Some months were worse than others. I would take a cool shower during the outbreak and sometimes use an icepack. Benadryl helped, as well. I wonder if you tried to cool your body with showers and icepacks if your symptoms would become more tolerable. By the way, I never took estrogen supplements, so I must have been reacting to my own body. Now that I no longer have periods ( I am 61), the monthly hives have stopped. I hope this helps you.

In answer to your question. Yes, I also have developed an estrogen allergy. I think I was always sensitive to estrogen before it became miserable and like you had headaches every month but estrogen allergy did not happen till I became older.

I tried taking some natural estrogen supplements like Red Clover which was okay but made me gain weight like crazy. Then I tried to use an energy supplement that had licorice in it and that caused a horrible rash and weird skin conditions that appeared to be anything from sarcoidosis to glanuloma annulare, psoriatic arthritis or contact dermatitis. The glanuloma annulare was triggered by an allergic reaction to rubber, latex or nitrile gloves. All of the gloves have estrogen mimic chemicals in the materials. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9699867. I also became allergic to my rubber thong shoes and a bra that had lining in it with material made from some kind of chemical. http://madamenoire.com/605228/are-the-chemicals-in-your-bra-making-you-sick/
https://debradeangelo.com/tag/rash-from-victorias-secret-bras/

The list of places where you can absorb excess estrogen is long. If you lived before the industrial age, most likely you would not have an estrogen allergy. Now we have a pervasive onslaught of chemicals and xenoestrogens from the environment so that our estrogen levels are not normal in any way shape or form. There is the estrogen you were born with then there is the estrogen that comes from the toxic environment of man made products. As Women age they become estrogen dominant and often have too much estrogen. Because of all the envriomental factors coming into play now, that is going to happen at a much younger age and all estrogen related cancers will increase as well as all estrogen related autoimmune disorders.

What to avoid:
http://rachaelpontillo.com/xenoestrogens-12-ways-avoid-24-ways-spot/

Autoimmune disorders caused by estrogen dominance:
http://www.functionalps.com/blog/2012/03/25/autoimmune-disease-and-estrogen-connection/

Last but not least. How to balance out all that estrogen and get some relief. I am just going to list the supplements and leave you to research, choose and experiment on your own. I can't really flat out tell you for several reasons. The most important reason is drug companies make a killing off these autoimmune disorders. They sure as hell don't want you to get better because that will kill their profits. The other reason is drug companies constantly try to kill the competition or any natural herbs, medicine etc. that might help people. This is not intended to treat, diagnose or cure. Just sharing a list of things I found helpful. They will not cure estrogen dominance but some of these things may turn it off so you are not in a constant state of misery, inflammation or facing bigger cancer risks.

Evening Primrose Oil (for inflammation and to reduce breast cancer risk)
Flax Seed Oil (reduces tumor size)
Wild Yam capsules (balances estrogen dominance)
Saw Palmetto (balances estrogen dominance)
Thymus glandular's capsule or tablets (repairs damage to thymus by estrogen and chemical damage)
Hydrocortisone Cream (to relieve itching and redness caused by estrogen/chemical contact to skin

Get your thyroid checked

Other hormones that can become out of balance due to xenostrogens

Thyroid (affected by pthalates in perfumes, plastizers, etc)
Adrenal (becomes out of balance first before thyroid)
Thymus (damaged by benzene's, xenoestrogens and other chemicals

The liver is also affected by xenohormones http://www.womenlivingnaturally.com/articlepage.php?id=73

Hope this helps.

Ooo my! I have the same weird allergy. When I was a young teenager, my doctor suggested birth control in order to regulate my very non-regular periods. I think it was after a week or 2 of taking the pills ,that I began to break out in itchy hives everywhere. It just continued to get worse and I also started to have swelling throughout my body and a fever and felt kinda ill. Seemed to link to the pills so we switched to a different brand. Same thing began to happen so I stopped taking them. Then he suggested the patch ,because it's absorbed in the body different or something. Days later I began to break out in hives all around the patch. So my doc said at that point the only common denominator was the synthetic hormones themselves and he wasn't sure if it could pose a problem if or when I got pregnant. However I've had 2 boys and was fine, thank goodness! But I often wonder if that would have been a different story if I had a girl. Idk
Mostly when I mention BC on my allergic meds ,they just kinda look at me like it's not possible, until I describe the reaction.