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Re: Heat Intolerance

Posted by Ravyn, Lady Heresy on July 29, 2004 at 05:38:29:

In Reply to: Re: Heat Intolerance posted by Abhi on July 21, 2004 at 19:27:16:

I not only have heat intolerance, I also have severe weakness in limbs(can't keep my arms up long enough to wash my hair in the shower, or walk back from the mailbox without cramps in my calves and muscle burn)and I have Lupus--which is photosensitive. so basically I dress in black and join goth groups and just give in to the vampiric lifestyle(LOL!---half-kidding)
I am getting to the menopause age now so I am not sure what symptoms belong in which category--but for atleast 10 years I have also had night sweats, and very very bad burning of the palms of my hands and soles of my feet on waking up in the mornings.
The stimulants cause extremely painful mouth sores and tongue swelling, and for the first time in my life I have to wear reading glasses(blurred vision).
I don't know if this is just getting older or if it is symptoms of N w/C. The C has definitely gotten worse for me as I get older. another somewhat embarrassing symptom that I hesitate to bring up with the doc is that since I have been put on muscle relaxers before bed(they DO help with the SP)I wake up in the morning unable to tighten the appropriate muscles in order to -ummm- 'use the bathroom', especially if any muscle straining/tensing is needed.
The heat intolerance is so bad that I sometimes go two weeks or more without leaving my house at all, not even walking in my own yard. Humidity kills me---I mean as in sending me to the hospital in an asthma attack and thinking I am having a heart attack. It has even been suggested that I have CHF(altho I do not think so---just the heat intolerance because I have no problem in air-conditioning or with unusual edema.)
I have heard that MS is very heat intolerant too. So is it just the auto-immune connection I wonder?
I wish there was some relief! I am a prisoner of my own body and often feel trapped and almost desperate. It is starting to 'get to me'. I worry how my nerves will hold up thru menopause with these stresses, my mother did not fair too well in that area. I am noticing more of tendency toward unreasonableness in myself(stimulants do not help that either!) but I can not take anti-depressants because so far everything I have tried has made the C worse(and I have tried everything). Anyway I am not depressed, just stressed.
Ravyn

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