Originally Posted by
csi56
I was initially skeptical when I read, "I am allergic to cold..." but I googled it, and it's a real syndrome:
Cold urticaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . Sorry you have to deal with such a thing.
I will be down south without a bike during Passover week, and I expect to leave while it's in the 40s and come back to the 60s. I've had quite enough of this winter.
Yeah, I understand the skepticism. I was fine with cold (didn't always like it, but no health issues) until I was 56 (a couple of years ago)... Ironically, I first started to notice the issue in the summer. I started itching a little when I was wading in the ocean, then a month or so later, I was holding a can of soda, and my hand started itching terribly, like I had poison ivy... after my hand warmed for a while, it was OK. But I did some research, thinking that it was strange enough that it might be a symptom for something else (my first fear was some sort of cancer or something). A month or two later when my throat started closing up while eating an ice cream sundae, I knew I had a problem.
Fortunately, being careful, and using antihistamines has helped a lot, but I do avoid cycling because I have had an asthma attack when temps were just below 50.