[sunnydisposition]

Last year i developed food allergy, mostly from dairy. so i stopped eating it. and i was okay. a month after that i started seroquel 50 mg for sleep. and i started taking probiotic to hopefully heal my allergy. and a couple of months after taking it i started eating dairy, little by little. and guess what, i felt perfectly okay after eating it. no signs of itching or hives. so i have been eating dairy regularly as a part of my diet ever since then. I attributed my healing to the proboitics. But a couple of days ago i switched meds, went on ambien, which apparently does not have anti histamine properties. and i started feel itching again. and now im on doxepin since ambien was just a temporary aid for me. and the itching has disappeared again. turns out doxepin too has anti histamine properties. so im wondering, did my " so called healing of food allergy was really just a hoax"? and my psych meds were masking my allergy symptoms giving me an illusion of wellness. Offcourse im getting the food allergy test tomorrow, i'll know for sure when i get the results. But in the mean time, have any one else experienced something like this? any thoughts, suggestions are most welcome and much appreciated.

[*Laurie*]

I have not experienced anything like what you've described, but I think it's entirely possible that your meds helped stop your allergic reaction.

[Misterpain]

Seroquel Is a funky drug 100mg and below it's a heavy duty anti histamine at much higher doses it has its antipsychotic effect , for sleep problems Seroquel is contraindicated just as all anti psychotics are the AASM released a paper about 1.5 years ago telling Physicians to stop treating insomnia that way because antipsychotic medications causes negative changes in the sleep cycle ( circadian rhythm) and sleep architecture, Doxepin is a failed antidepressant from many years ago that has been studied extensively in sleep labs and has positive effect on sleep it has been repatened as Silenor for sleep . Almost all psychotropic medication has an antihistanergic effect in its profile simply because all psychotropic are based off antihistamines. Get Your allergy test! Food allergies are very prevalent and annoying.

[TicTacGo]

Seroquel has a paradoxical effect, as my doctor described. At lower dosages, it largely affects the histamine receptors in the brain and does therefore cause drowsiness.

Like Seroquel, a number of psychiatric drugs have this effect at lower dosages, whereas at higher dosages, other receptors are affected.