Started taking All Out Sweat yesterday stacked with ThermoAmp. The Blue Hawaiian flavor is great, and clean energy and heat!!
One issue, both days I have broken out into hives and had to take Benedryl. I have used ThermoAmp in the past with no issue. I looked over the All Out Sweat label a few times and nothing stands out.. any thoughts?
Are they hives in the sense of raised up from the skin or in the sense that the skin is red and splotchy?
Now, for my reply here, I'm not just directing it at you, but going into a lot of detail for anyone that may read this now or in the future in an effort to help them understand if they experience this with these or any other products.
The reason that I'm asking is there are a couple of different things that it could be.
Possibility 1: There may be something in there that you had an allergic type reaction/histamine response to.
Possibility 2: There may be one or more ingredients that you had a flushing type response to that mimicked a histamine response or may have even triggered a histamine response.
Allergies and allergic reactions are a lot more complex than people realize; and sometimes people can have a histamine response to something that they may not have at other times depending on a variety of factors. Example - maybe you're allergic to ragweed and you were outside more the past weekend and it gets your body's histamine response revved up and then you take an ingredient that you may would not have a reaction to or only a minimal one - the combination of the factors could cause you to think you're allergic or more allergic to something than you are.
Also though, let's say that in the same scenario, you do something or are exposed to something that gets your histamine receptors revved up and then you take Beta Alanine and maybe you only normally get tolerable tingles from it but that time it gives you really bad tingles. It's not so much of an allergic response to it as it would be your body just already being all worked up and responding in a way that is is aggravated by multiple factors.
From an ingredient standpoint, here are some of the likely culprits if it were to be those:
- Beta Alanine - in All Out Sweat - known for tingles and sometimes itching. (Remember that outside factors could make a response to it worse than normal sometimes).
- GBB - in All Out Sweat - this ingredient causes some people to really heat up and some people get splotchy when that happens. And if something else were already going on, I could see how this would exacerbate it.
Going back to the allergy/sensitivity part at the top, I'll use me as an example. There are times where I can drink a case of Truly's and not turn red at all but then there are times of the year depending on the airborne allergens that I turn so bright red from just one you'd think I would glow in the dark. This is just one of many examples of things like this happening to me.
I have a lot of allergies and sensitivities to different things and there are some things that bother me sometimes and sometimes they don't, and this is likely because of other things I've been exposed to that bother me around the same time period. Plus, I have a super sensitive histamine response so that just compounds the issue for me.
I hope that all of this helps and makes sense.
...particularly when you know considerably more on the topic. We have yet to find anything I'm allergic to. Thanks for chiming in 
