Itching of short duration.

[Grad1202]

Does anyone have experience of DH lesions showing up every few days but only ithing for a short time? 

[apprehensiveengineer]

Are you currently gluten-free? Did you have the rash while you were still eating gluten?

I have found that though I still get flares, that they are much less itchy now than when I was eating gluten on a daily basis. My words come with a grain of salt as I have not had my rash biopsied (I am however, quite confident it is DH).

When I was eating gluten, I was so itchy that I could not sleep and had trouble concentrating on stuff during the daytime. I fantasized about burning my skin off/bathing in bleach (obviously I did not do either of these things). I was basically beside myself itchy. It was worse at night, but also exacerbated by sweating. I would sometimes stop in the middle of a run to scratch because I couldn't take it.

I've been gluten-free for 3 years, and super, super gluten-free for almost 1 (ie. minimal packaged food, no eating out etc.). The rash still itches, but tapers off much faster and is much less intense.

If you're already gluten-free/have a celiac diagnosis, getting the rash biopsied might not be all that useful (have to be eating gluten to ensure positive result). If you get other skin conditions ruled out and still have the rash, it might mean that you need to be more careful about being gluten-free. In my first two years gluten-free, I followed the general recommendations for those with celiac disease, but found that I couldn't fully shake the rash. Advice from this forum about being more conservative/careful helped a lot.