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Old 12-20-2015, 08:23 PM
Sirfy80 Sirfy80 is offline
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Heart Possible small fibre neuropathy

Hi First time posting hoping to get some advice really. I have been having a number of odd symptoms following a hair transplant in June this year. Around 48 hours after the procedure which was done under local anaesthetic and is supposed to be minimally invasive I collapsed before boarding a flight and was told I had lowish BP and possible throat infection and was cleared to get on the flight.

On the flight home I had an extremely high heart rate throughout (anxiety I suppose) but for the following month I was extremely fatigued to the point where I couldn't stay up for more than an hour or so but was also struggling to actually sleep at night. I saw various GPs and even when to A&E as everytime I stood up I felt like my legs were going to go from underneath me I couldn't sleep at night and had extremely high heart rate especially at night I was told simply this was anxiety and I just needed to relax.

After a month or so the fatigue and brain fog started to lift but I found I would wake up at night and either my arm or foot would be completely numb. This happened for around a week and since have noticed a number of symptoms including pins and needles in hands and feet along with some burning in ankles and wrists this has developed into burning of the soles of feet and painful wrists to the point it's quite difficult to do every day normal things driving , opening bottles. I also no longer sweat except from armpits and occasionally from legs if it's very warm other things I have noticed are constant fullness in ears , loss
Of libido and loss of night time and morning erections , hair loss on toes , constantly cold, headaches which I did not have previously, around 2 stones of
Weight loss, heart palpitations in middle of night, anxiety in social situations, slight loss of balance. Despite my symptoms have still been advised by a number of
GPs , consultants and a neurologist that this is anxiety. Blood tests are all normal as far as I have been told and can tell except for testosterone which is 6.4 this however increased to 7.7 recently so have been told it's sorting itself out so no need for any intervention.

I have been offered anti depressants , pain killers and sleeping tablets but although the pain is quite bad at times have declined until I can hopefully get to the actual root cause hopefully.

Apologies for the long post but wanted to give full details to get some opinions on what if anything could have caused this as previous to the procedure I was perfectly fine . I also took prednisolone and anti biotics cefuroksim which was switched to Flucoxacillin as I suffered an allergic reaction to it. Could the procedure or any of the meds cause small fibre neuropathy ?

I don't know where else to go with this as my GP isn't really interested anymore and neither is any other doctor I have come across .

I have started some supplements recently b12 methyl cobalamin sublingual , Curcumin , omega 3s . I have also ordered benfotiamine and R ala which should arrive this week. Haven't noticed much difference as yet but not sure if these will help as haven't been able to determine a cause as such.

Many thanks for taking the time to read this
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