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Originally Posted by pinkynose
I'm having some possible AHA moments this morning but want to make sure I am not over reacting.
I am not sure if some of my symptoms are autonomic so I am asking for your input if I should push for a sweat test and if so which one?
For many years before I had any burning or what I now know as SFN sensations I had boasted that I hardly sweat. I could come out of a spinning class surrounded by people who were soaked in their own perspiration and I would have a small damp spot on my back. It's not that I was incapable of sweating it's just that the circumstances would need to be extreme.
Lately my blood pressure has been getting higher. From 90/60 or 100/70 for years to recently 129/78. The lowest it seems to go is 117/70 or 80. To all my new doctors this is not a concern, but to me it needs to be compared to what it was.
I have not gotten a dx for SFN not even idiopathic, not for lack of trying. Do I pursue this or am I being a over reactive?  |
Funny about the sweating part. I've never been a heavy sweater either. I don't personally know what the point of the sweat test is really. I didn't ask for it. I have some pretty nasty autonomic problems that are worse some days than others. I was diagnosed with SFN by skin biopsy and tilt table. There is absolutely nothing they can do unless they find a cause anyway so it is no better than the fibromyalgia diagnosis that was made in the first place. The only reason for a confirmation of nerve damage is good to have is know that one isn't crazy, especially when they look so well and can be so debilitated.
Sometimes I wish I didn't know that there was actual damage because it just sounds terrible.