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EnglishRose:
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--- Quote from: EnglishRose on December 01, 2018, 02:22:03 PM ---Do u know where your peripheral neuropathy comes from?
Back issues?
What are your symptoms?
Peri was okay except from the start ... just as well as it lasted ten years !
I think I'm now hitting menopause.. feel like crap 💩 physically and mentally four days. Keep checking my pants when I go toilet hoping that the very mild spotting results in a long overdue period.
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Hello again,
I don't know where the neuropathy comes from, neither my 5 doctors... fibromyalgia, carpal tunnel syndrome, ME/CFS, chronic pain syndrome, Ehlers Danlos syndrome, other connective tissue disorders have all been 'diagnosed'.
My main symptom is burning skin (hands, arms, feet, legs, upper back). It's extremely debilitating. It began in February and now it comes and goes as it pleases. I've done tons of tests and been prescribed tons of meds, Venlafaxine, Duloxetine, Cyclobenzaprine, Biotin, Curcuma, amongst others. I have decided to stop all medication and supplements, very confusing. I only take B12 now because I'm veggie.
The Nephrologist has diagnosed a big kidney stone and she thinks that it has been caused by excess supplemental vitamin D (I wasn't aware at the time that I needed vitamin K2 and magnesium along with it, neither my doctor).
My peri also lasted 10 years, but it was not ok... it was a long and winding road of ups and downs (I thought I was bipolar) and when menopause was approaching, I collapsed. I'm exactly 2 years postmeno now. Let's say that the last year of peri was the worst possible nightmare I have ever experienced. Then, 3 months after hitting menopause, the neuropathy started. On the bright side, morning anxiety, insomnia, feelings of impending doom, random bursts of sadness, anger, insecurity and crying have calmed down.
That's why I'm sure you'll be fine once you cross the menopause bridge. Not that you'll have your old life back. That'll never happen but you'll be able to breathe and get to know your new self better (although your old body will always remind you to slow down).
Conolly X
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You poor poor girl. My heart goes out to you. Truly.
Nothing I can add as it's one of the few areas I haven't googled the Hell out of. Lol
I hope you find some relief soon x
EnglishRose:
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--- Quote from: CLKD on December 01, 2018, 01:44:41 PM ---My restless legs were cured by eating lots of bananas - lack of potassium. For 5+ years I ate 2/3 small bananas daily and didn't have problems, then I went 'off' bananas :-\. Within 3 months symptoms had returned. I have found some really tasty ones in recent weeks otherwise I take 2 Nurofen an hour B4 bedtime which helps.
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I read that CLKD on other posts and went rummaging in my medicine cupboard a few nights ago found some potassium glucanate tablets. I prefer bananas I think, meant to ask hubby to buy some... I'll keep taking the tablets though. X
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Oh! Bladder irritation?
Please please don't take potassium tablets unless you've been tested and prescribed them recently. Potassium is a very dangerous one to supplement by pills, best to get it in food. Incidentally if you google potassium-rich foods bananas aren't the best. Coconut milk I think was very good x
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EnglishRose:
--- Quote from: CLKD on December 01, 2018, 08:26:05 PM ---Why take a supplement when potassium is readily available in bananas and cheaper! And coconuts do not have MILK regardless of what the current trend suggests. They have water which I love ........ creamed coconut is different, DH uses a lot in Indian cookery - the water has been removed and it's been squashed and I can't get enough of it. Hate the desiccated stuff though :D
Mind you, there are bananas. And there are bananas :-X
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I couldn't find bananas in my medicine cupboard 😆😄
After the above post I'll stop using them now and buy bananas 🍌
EnglishRose:
--- Quote from: Jari on December 01, 2018, 12:38:26 PM ---Hi EnglishRose. Have you tried Epsom (magnesium) salts in the bath. 4 big handfuls I've found works really well for anxiety and leg cramps. Leg cramps could be due to lack of calcium/magnesium. Are you taking supplements?
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Hi.
I've just started taking magnesium but no not used Epsom salts...I don't get much in the way of true cramps,,,now again I get it in my toe... horrible.. y toe points right down..,you can't separate your toes like fingers so it's weird to see and truly painful happens usually before a period...
My restless legs currently is awful.. I'm kicking and wrapping my legs around each other...
for years I've never been able to sit in a chair without fidgety legs so I sit like an Indian, both legs up. That stops the sensation of rls.
Never had it in bed before so it's a new pain.
Hurdity:
Hi EnglishRose - I didn't know you had gone! That was quick!!! I did a double take as there is another English Rose on here but she hasn't been on for a while, and then a different one (EnglishRose) was also on here at the same time also called peterspots who came and went a few times - but not a member any more I don't think...
Anyway now I know who you are (roseenglish!) - I just wanted to say having read your story that many of your symptoms are classic menopausal hormonal symptoms/anxiety and depression. The fact that they were cyclical and you did not experience anxiety or depression before menopause points to that and you should never have been given anti-depressants in the first instance.
As you have said from blood tests your oestrogen is low and the most important thing is to get this level up as soon as you can in the hope that you feel much much better. If you are peri-menopausal then you will still get cyclical fluctuations unless you suppress your cycle through very high dose oestrogen or the contraceptive pill ( there are a couple more suitable for peri-menopause) but you might be too old for these?
I had a quick glance through the posts and there has been a lot of talk about supplements etc - and I think you were talking about eating different foods that contain what you are looking for? That is definitely the way to go rather than supplements unless you know you're deficient. In any case a good diet will sort out most things provided you're not in any of the groups with digestive problems like Crohns etc or on proton pump inhibitors like Omp....zole.
Do also read the posts of memebr GypsyRoseLee - she suffered enormously throughout peri-menopause with menopausal depression which came and went dramatically as her hormones fluctuated. She's much better now - though oestrogen treatment (I think she might have started anti-depressants too later but I can't remember). Certainly you should be working primarily towards a hormonal solution in the first instance.
I can't help with the interstitial cystitis side of things but there are plenty of members who can advise on this condition and these symptoms.
Anyway all the best :)
Hurdity x
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