I needed something that didn't exist
After I found out I had histamine intolerance, I went looking for help. What I found were contradictory food lists, information scattered across dozens of sources, and very little that actually helped me in real life — at a restaurant, on holiday, on the bad days. I had a diagnosis, but no way to actually live with it.
I was tired of feeling alone with it
On top of the symptoms, there was the weight of not being believed. "It's just stress." "It's all in your head." The mental load of doing the math on every meal, of constantly explaining myself, of feeling like the complicated one. I knew I couldn't be the only one.
So I started gathering
Everything I discovered that helped me — a trick at a restaurant, a safe meal, a connection I noticed between sleep, my cycle and my reactions — I wrote it all down. Slowly, the chaos started to make sense. And the things that helped me seemed to help the other people I talked to, too.
What I want MyHistamate to be
The place I wish I'd had from the very start: practical, human, written the way one person talks to another. Not medical advice, not endless lists — just what genuinely works, drawn from experience. And, soon, an app that does some of the work for you.
I'm not a doctor, and I don't have all the answers. But I've walked this road, and I'm still walking it — and if I can make yours a little easier, then MyHistamate has done its job.
A practical trick: if you're just starting out and feeling overwhelmed, don't try to understand everything at once. Begin with one single thing — a safe meal, a journal, one article — and build from there. That's exactly how I did it, one step at a time.