Lots of weird stuff going on, would be so grateful for any direction or advice...
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barbara98940 pamela02500
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Also there was an interesting article on Tuesday 1st March 2016 in a UK newspaper called the Daily Mail about how herbs can reduce inflammation and have all sorts of other beneficial effects (proven by clinical trials). You should be able to Google it.
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And thanks, I'll definitley goodle the herbs, I'll try anything... if it wasn't for inflammation I'd be pretty healthy. Most of all I really want my diagnosis, too long with all this weirdness.
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JenniePoobah pamela02500
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Have you tried going gluten free? /Been evaluated for celiac?
All my best,
Jen
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JenniePoobah pamela02500
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Sounds like your Cardio is a total jerk. I'm so sorry you were treated that way.
Here is what I found out from the two cardios I went to: Because my heart is fine, they are less concerned about the BP and HR fluctuations. BECAUSE there is so much fluctuation, they are limited in what they can do, because what they do to help the highs,will make the lows lower and vice versa. (So by fixing one problem, they make another worse.) Generally they don't become concerned until it HR is over 100 or below 60 the vast majority of the time. Mine go as low as 44 and as high as 121, but mostly it is between 60-100, so that doesn't trigger concern. Same for BP. Low as 93/57 and as high as 175/106. I have had sinus bradycardia (rhythm too slow) twice and been diagnosed with sinus tachycardia after wearing a monitor for a month. I still don't know any more than you do. Our symptoms tell us more than the doctors in these cases. (grin)
I learned on my own that these times of fluctuations (up or down) can make my oxygenation go down. This results in me feeling quite bad. So, that is something else to consider. Take some slow deep breaths and see if the symptoms get better. The truth is, they are aware of very little that can cause this. I, personally, suspect these symptoms are secondary to the other problems.. i.e., caused by other problems, not a heart problem per se. It seems to me that it is a kind of autonomic dysregulation - like being cold when no one else is, getting low grade fevers for no reason, hot/cold patches on your skin, etc.
I, too, have been treated like a hypochondriac, told it's all in my head, and treated like I'm stupid. You're not. It's not. And you're not.
Good luck Pamela.
Jen
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JenniePoobah pamela02500
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Hi Pamela! How are you feeling? Are you getting to the root of the problems?
You know, when I read your post it really spoke to me. I've been having varying levles of problems since I started college almost 30 years ago. Most of it they haven't figured out. Only since last year have they started making sense of some of my symptoms. I, too, have idiopathic angioedema. I too have BP & HR highs and lows. I have a lot of muscular pain in my thighs and upper arms and lower back. I have intermittant swelling (sometimes huge) in my legs, feet, arms, hands, face, gut. My gut is a frequent offender (swells every day to different degrees). My previously annoying allergies have grown to monstrous proportions in terms of the sheer number of the allergies and the severity of the response. I have been diagnosed with oral allergy syndrome and my gut biopsy shows blunted villi - so they are evaluating for celiac disease. In addition, my IGG is growing more deficient over time. I'm now down to 614 (700 is the normal low cutoff). My CBC shows I'm anemic. And my iron went from high-ish to low pretty abruptly. I'm also vit d deficient -- all the time. And I have psoriasis of the scalp. I fall periodically. My muscles get weak periodically. I have memory problems. I get really severe fatigue. And I have blurry vision & double vision. I've been evaluated for MS many many times. And Myasthenia gravis and similar diseases. No antibodies (not even to Hashimotos, which was definitively diagnosed by biopsy). It's a mad mad world we live in, isn't it? I think it's something upstream of the main immune processes. Something that makes things downstream go very wrong. But I think medicine just isn't far enough along yet to help those like us who are stringing immune diseases and miscellaneous problems around faster than we can age into them. (wry grin) Thankfully we have each other.
I hope to hear an update! Take care and be well.
Jen