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Old 04-13-2015, 04:08 AM #11
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I notice you listed niacin in your supplement list.

If you are taking real niacin ...that can cause skin paresthesias and tingling flushing etc.

Niacin in the form of niacinamide does not cause this reaction.
Thank you for your knowledge. I have read many of your posts, or did so prior to joining. you are a light and inspiration to many.

I am glad to say that I'm taking niacinamide forms
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I noticed some muscle wastage across upper pecs, forearms, biceps, which has been arrested by B1 incrementation.

Added iron on noticing some breathlessness after running.

Added zinc and drinkable (non acidic) vit C.

Right then... Past three days, very very few paresthesias.

Friday - no paresthesias, but incredibly fatigued. Longest sleep in months, woke up to wanting more sleep.

Saturday, Felt about 50% of the degree of yesterday's fatigue. Managed to do some light runs. Felt like hell afterwards. did a bodyweight circuit, 100 lunges in 6 minutes ( 40, rest, 40, rest, 20) made my legs feel like lead. Then followed up with 30 minute stationary bike cardio dealy 4 hours after that.

Sunday, A lot less fatigue, some vague tingling in left sole, very light "cobweb" feeling back of right hand. Very brief 5th cranial nerve region feeling of being touched by a ghost (on cheek).

In the middle of completing a two hour work out.

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Some days I am symptom-free. Other days, left sole paresthesia (especially after sitting with some compression of sciatic nerve in the site of hamstring), right ulnar nerve paresthesia (numbness and tingling of right two smallest fingers) last for hours. Hanging right arm by my side relieves the odd sensation. Sitting on a chair other than the one I am in now relieves left sole tingling to some degree.

Chronic myopathy was also present (prior to paresthesia onset of April 3). Glad to say that this situation is now resolving with muscle mass returning to left biceps and muscles of the forearm. (Noticeable bilateral loss of muscle from quadriceps, gluteus; gastrocnemius and anterior tibialis - with right side more affected). Pectoralis major: noticed bilateral loss of muscle in the course of a week, which is now resolving.

Persisting with thiamine (and all other vitamins as listed earlier in this post).

I'm glad to say that, generally, there is nothing new to report, in terms of symptom progression. Very mild compared to the first two weeks, if present at all.

Noted in journal (sorry, exact publication forgotten) that very marked muscle loss and paresthesias including sensory loss and depressed deep tendon reflexes slowly resolved (after 15 months, with 6-week inpatient hospitalization of pt. Hx of alcohol abuse). The pt was in a far worse state than I am in.

Considering my condition to really be dry beri beri with chronic myopathy already present.

Romberg's sign not present. Tinel's sign present three days ago. Cannot seem to make it occur again.

No liver signs at present - with no palmar erythema, ascites or abdominal swelling; no obvious jaundice of skin.

No kidney signs.

No signs of hypogonadism or hyperestrogenism.

Apparent fat deposition in places where muscle atrophied seems consistent with myopathy.

Only concern: thiamine malabsorption is present in cases of liver disease. So it is important to regularly check thiamine to ensure correct storage and phosphatization.

Sudden reduction of paresthesias and consistent levels of paresthesias with regular absence of symptoms seems to very very generally indicate that liver function is within normal limits.

Biggest concern right now - when will these tingling sensations get lost? Time, time, time. Time is so narcissistic.

This is now 3 weeks and 4 days after initial and rampant onset. Can jog upstairs, can exercise (on good days) for 3 hours, can carry load in storming conditions for two hours. (Walking, jogging elicits tingling in both soles, not very different from just normal sensations of having "used" my feet).

Pushups are easier. A pump (physiological engorgement of muscles with blood through exercise) is easier to elicit now. Was almost absent before, which was curiously odd.

Sleep is easier to come by these days. But for the last three nights I have been giving a "running commentary" in my dreams, which is very exhausting. A lady in one dream was gathering flowers, or something, from a garden bed. And there was I hovering in the dreamscape ether above her, and narrating the scene. Very odd. But these things have happened to me before and always abate. I work with a lot of people for long hours in a day and I often go to bed exhausted without having first properly unwound. So not unusual I suppose if I continue to analyze and provide narratives on the other side of life.

Um. That's all, I guess. Rough notes only. I am tired today. (Which is a good sign in this case).
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Low grade and continual paresthesias - L sole, L middle fingers, Right smallest fingertips. No signs on waking. Seemed to be onsetting at about the same time every night. Possibly onsetting later and later as the weeks roll on.

Arms are coming back to old form. Upper legs and especially left calf show some muscle loss. Upper legs- muscle loss above outside knee joint. Calves and anterior tibialis both legs show signs of atrophy. Expect they will suddenly re-appear just as my arms re-appeared. No strength loss. Have commenced intensive exercise for legs to promote (re)growth by stimulating hypertrophy pathways.

Maintaining vitamin regimen with addition of 1000IU Vitamin E daily in two doses.

Most aggravating and troubling part of this - persistence of paresthesias, even though not as intense as April 3. And noticeable loss of muscle. Tone is okay, now. Some flaccidity before. Better tone now. Muscle loss seems to happen very quickly, and comes back very quickly - I noticed this pattern a while ago during main part of the fight with myopathy.

Some abnormal sense of pounding in extremities - toes, esp fingers, when vigorously used - including trying to play guitar earlier.

Twitches in right upper pec and right tricep.

(Acute myopathy -dx approx Feb 2014. Chronic myopathy from August 2014 - very approximately).
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Your notes are insightful...thought you should know. Helpful to others, keep at it.
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Dubinin... Please don't use iron products unless you have tested low in iron at the doctor's office. Excess iron in males, has been linked to heart disease and attacks.

And to make things better for your muscles and nerves, magnesium may help. SlowMag, one twice a day, is good to fix low levels of that. May heavy drinkers become low in magnesium over time due to the diuretic actions of the alcohol. Caffeine also has the same effect.

This is my magnesium thread:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread1138.html
Soaking in epsom salts baths may help too. Or using the lotion, Morton Epsom lotion, on target spots, will work too. But it is not designed to use all over the body. Apply it to feet one day, (tops not bottoms), calves one day, thighs, the next...and rotate. It is really a wonderful way to relax muscles and provide the body with some magnesium that way. I use it every day myself. WalMart, Walgreen's and online at Amazon. (not all stores carry it yet).
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Your notes are insightful...thought you should know. Helpful to others, keep at it.
Thank you very much! I wondered if it might be helpful to anyone. It is always a hope. I know what it is like to look for answers
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Thank you, Mrs D. There is plenty of research to suggest there may be links between heart disease and dysfunction and too much iron. It is also a reason why a doctor I know donates blood regularly - too much iron.

I was taking magnesium and then when I ran out after one month, I did not buy it again. But, I will. We will see if it makes any difference.


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Dubinin... Please don't use iron products unless you have tested low in iron at the doctor's office. Excess iron in males, has been linked to heart disease and attacks.

And to make things better for your muscles and nerves, magnesium may help. SlowMag, one twice a day, is good to fix low levels of that. May heavy drinkers become low in magnesium over time due to the diuretic actions of the alcohol. Caffeine also has the same effect.

Thank you for the link to your thread. Topical applications interest me.

This is my magnesium thread:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread1138.html
Soaking in epsom salts baths may help too. Or using the lotion, Morton Epsom lotion, on target spots, will work too. But it is not designed to use all over the body. Apply it to feet one day, (tops not bottoms), calves one day, thighs, the next...and rotate. It is really a wonderful way to relax muscles and provide the body with some magnesium that way. I use it every day myself. WalMart, Walgreen's and online at Amazon. (not all stores carry it yet).
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Up and down. Up and down. All I see is the see-saw sea.

For the past four days, paresthesias were set back to a dull fuzziness, and were absent after rest/sleep in prone position. I thought I was going to go nose-up and leave these war-grey clouds of obtuse fuzziness! Wrong! Nerve conditions are apt to play Loki.

Left sole, right toes, very tips of left middle fingers and very tippy tips of right smallest fingers, right toes every so slightly fizzy, not even fuzzy. And,

Today, awoke without a symptom. But my old ghosts returned, elicited on standing and walking. Only today did I have a minor crisis with left sole paresthesia becoming more intense (approx 40% as intense as on April 3). Left outside shin was numb for around an hour (had been sitting for 2 hours to write with inner knee unconsciously pressed against one aspect of the weird desk at which I sit to write). Standing and walking and sitting upon the glossy porcelain throne elicited immediately left sole paresthesia (which was relieved when raised buttock. O the games Dubinin plays in the can room, cannery(?)).

Oh, wait - Wednesday: Could not properly bench press - weakness on right side with noticeable loss of right upper pec muscle (a one-and-a-half inch long and inch wide area near sternum served by lateral pectoral nerve). Even pushups (without feet elevated on chair) were difficult.

After changing to higher dosage of vitamin B1, mystery of the prodigal pec was resolved in 2 days. Pec now feels about normal again. As weird as that sounds.

Still upper body weakness, with 5 elevated-feet pushups feeling like I had already done 80 before their number. Troubling. But, I'm not truly worried. It will come back. Won't it? If it does, I will bench press again. If it doesn't, I will sit and eat vitamin filled cheese cake and look fat for a while.

Quads are still smaller than they ought to be. Calves are slightly diminished. Have commenced regular lunges and squats to activate hypertrophic pathways to counteract the atrophic process. May or may not work. Let's hope it does, lest I forever more be called Needle Legs.

Will add upper body rehabilitative program to that bunch of odds and bods. Will perform whatever pushups I can, halve the number, and do that number in three sets each day and add to that number daily. And look up cheese cake recipes.

What a chirpy Dubinin, even while feeling a million buzzing demyelinated axons screaming for death or mercy- and hoping that either comes first. One must keep their wits in place, though; as long as wits are able to tenant this skull.
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