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Originally Posted by Gildedlily
Hi Everyone
Great to find this site. I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction on here.
I've been diagnosed with small fibre neuropathy after I was poisoned earlier this year. I wondered if there are people on here with neuropathy following exposure to toxic substances. My neurologist has been great and she is referring me on to a professor who specialises in SFN. The thing is, although she has been able to explain why I have the pain, numness etc in my limbs, there are other symptoms which are very distressing which I don't have answers for yet. The worst is a weird kind of numbness around my throat, which comes and goes. Also, I seem to be very sensitive now to things which didn't cause problems before. Eg if I drink alcohol it really aggravates the pain, plus last week I was in a room where someone was doing some cleaning with solvents, which were quite strong smelling. That night, my symptoms went into overdrive and it took me two days to back to some kind of normal, although now with this, things are not normal anymore.
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I think you need to find an environmental physician who can
deal with this more creatively. There are several ways to remove heavy metals. Some doctors use chelation, IV or oral, plus some supplements to speed the detox.
How did you get poisoned?
We have a PN forum, but I don't recall a poster who was definitely diagnosed with arsenic poisoning. (even tho this happens).
Since arsenic affects mitochondria, some supplements that help restore mito functions may help you.
These are acetyl-l-carnitine, CoQ-10 and r-lipoic acid, and biotin.
(some drugs and toxins cause neuropathies by poisoning the mitochondria of cells)
We discuss these at our neuropathy forum here:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum20.html
Some chemical sensitivies may remain as reflexes following an exposure. I myself react to ammonia that way, I get bronchospasms (and my exposure was back in the early 70's).
I keep an albuterol inhaler around as insurance. If I go to a public store that has just stripped
their floors, I can get an asthma attack. Gasoline and diesel will also set me off.
There is a connection between arsenic and alcohol:
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/co...full/164/2/194
When alcohol creates "pain"... this is also a cardinal symptom for lymphoma.
It can be a sign of it, before any others are noticed.
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