Regaining normalcy

I’ve been dealing with this continuously for the last two years, I’ve had high dose antihistamines which didn’t work, I’ve had cyclosporine which worked until I adapted to it and after repeatedly increasing my dose, wrecking my immune system and giving me joint pain so bad I was on a wait list for hip surgery, which said pain then went away within three weeks of discontinuing the cyclosporine and I now no longer require surgery.
I thought I had tried everything, everyday was a constant battle of my body trying to sweat but it not happening effectively, causing a flare up and requiring removal from the environment I was in, or at its worst multiple cold showers at night whilst trying to sleep because I would overheat during the night.

I’ve been doing an infrared sauna every second day for the last 2 weeks. I get the initial itchy “pre flare up” feeling within the sauna, that typically starts at around the 6 min mark, and then from minutes 6 to about 15 that “pre flare up” tingle/itch moves around my body until each part that gets it eventually starts sweating, by the 15 minute mark I am sweating freely and I can comfortably sit in the sauna as long as I am physically able to, I usually aim for 30 mins minimum, up to 45-1hr if time and my hydration allows for it.

In everyday life I now can start sweating much more easily, I do still get the “pre flare up” itch/tingle but it never progresses past that and I end up being able to sweat.
I haven’t woken up at night to have to have a cold shower for over a week now; and my baseline threshold for heat and external heat stimulus is much higher, and my baseline to actually start sweating seems to be getting lower with each sauna.

I’m hypothesising that continued sauna use will lower that baseline threshold enough and allow my body to actually sweat much more easily, and that I will eventually no longer get the “pre flare up” tingle/itch.

Just thought I’d send this lil update, as my doctors, specialists and everyone else I had seen had labelled me as “treatment resistant” and none of the medications I was given worked for me.