Vitamins for inflammed blood vessels?
 

Hi everyone, ( I also posted over in autoimmune)

I had my doc appt yesterday and I will followup and post the detailed outcome.

But it seems that I had a test result come back very high...hs-C reactive protein.

Doc says all my pain and burning is from inflammation in a layer of all my blood vessels. Hence why it is all over my body.

Anyone have any advice? Since it is a cardiac test I looked online and got...stroke..aneurysm..heart attack.....ACK .:( But doc said the test can capture all inflammation in the body so I dont think it has progressed this far but I want to start taking care of right away. She definetely thought however that a layer of tissue in my vessels is inflammed. I asked is it vascultitis and she said no its vessel inflammation. And I can tell they are inflammed and boy it hurts. I made appt with rheumy anyway as double check.

Doc also said I have severe malabsorption issues, candida infection and leaky gut. Gave me Diflucan for one month (will test liver to make sure ok during it)

I said...well I am an overachiever aren't I?

Doc said I need high doses of Vit C, and Folic Acid and Vitamin D (which was abmyssmal). Also gave me b12 shot since she said at the doses I have been taking of the sublingual that I should be higher. Took the Folic acid (5mg) last night and Wowza I was up all night and thought I was having a heart attack.

Thought maybe drinking some aloe would be good.

So any suggestions welcomed. I am following up with rheumy and a cardio doc just to be safe. Now if I could only make this go away.

Thanks....I am on fire from the inside out.
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here is an article on inflammation in the body:

http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2002/...port_c_01.html

I would take the folic acid in the morning... 5mg may be too high for you tho, so if you do not adjust to it, mention lowering doses to the doctor.

Can you take aspirin? The reason I ask is that I get that "burning" now and then and 2 AlkaSeltzer knocks it right out. But AlkaSeltzer has aspirin in it, and that is not for "everyone"...

Thanks Mrs D.

The 5 mg of folic acid was too much so I went to homeopathic store and bought the more bio available form in a 800 mcg twice a day. Also added 1500 of vitamin C (750/2x a day). And they said selenium was good for thryoid antibodies

It's like a burning and I can feel the blood vessels spasm too. The area gets warm and then I will get chills (guess the body trying to cool it down) and then it hurts like spasms and like a vise. Last night it got all the way up my arms and I worried it might get to my heart and then what.

I dont think i can take asiprin because I take cellebrex although i dont know if the cellebrex is doing anything for me. I do wonder if its keeping the inflammation down. Wow thats means it could be higher without the cellebrex wonder if I should take more.

I am scared:( can't get to doc till tuesday

Thanks for the tip mrs d :hug:

Oh and Mrs D I doubled my fishoil too. I sure hope this inflammation goes down

A couple of things from your article were good...

A chronic inflammatory state, as evidenced by elevated C-reactive protein, results in significant damage to the arterial system.

THis is what scares me.

But I have been on a diet in the last 6 weeks, serious diet and have dropped my cholesterol 80 points on diet alone from 315 to 234. I sure hope all that free cholesterol is not swimming around my blood causing problems.

Autoimmune disease and some types of arthritis chronic aare orms of low-grade inflammation. The immune system mounts defenses that go beyond what is necessary, reaching an elevated plateau where inflammation becomes damaging to otherwise healthy tissues...well I have Hashi's...does that mean that it is causing damage to my arterial system?
Fat cells literally pump out C-reactive protein, which could explain why being overweight is so bad for the heart...maybe this new diet burning fat is causing mine to go up? I know grasping at straws.

Low levels of the steroid hormone DHEA have been correlated with increased C-reactive protein levels

Wow the doc said I had very very very low DHEA and should supplement it. ONe of the reasons my sex hormones might be low too. She thinks perhaps adrenals are tired and not enough energy to operate sex hormones


High levels of hs-CRP in the blood also seem to predict prognosis and recurrent events in patients with stroke or peripheral arterial disease.

Sure hope I do not have PAD - periphal artery disease

Thanks again, I was just talking out loud.

I sure hope that if I have hurt the circularoty system that it is fixable or controllable. Sigh :(

Hello Shelley
I am a retired Doctor. If you take a) the right 'proteolytic enzyme' and b) at the right time your will have full inflammation control.

Shelly
 

My Dr. said the vi could be from my Sjogren's Syndrone so i'm doing
what Mrsd saids and seeing both Derma. Dr, this week and Rheumy
next week dang iy's alfull. :mad: :mad: I'm not just way i look all
over. :hug: ouch Sue