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09-28-2015, 10:54 PM | #1 | |||
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Well, I've pretty followed the same road you have. I was on the BCP for about 20 years and never had children. My neuropathy hit the month after I stopped taking them when I was 52. It may just be coincidence, but between the timing of it and the timing of when I flare badly now, I feel there's a hormonal component to this. Having done a lot of Googling on a possible connection, I see a lot of people saying there certainly can be one, but not much beyond that. To date, no doctor I've seen seems to know anything about it. I definitely feel like the very strong "buzzing" I sometimes have in the morning accompanied by a racing heart is cortisol levels. That's the only thing that makes sense. It calms down when I get moving in the morning. The other thing that happened to me is after about 2 or 3 months of being off the pill, my heart went berserk. I started having crazy palpitations to the tune of 1300 in 24 hours when they put a holter on me. I thought it was from the stress of neuropathy. Long story short, it was about this time I wondered about a hormonal cause for my neuropathy, and called my gyn. She prescribed low dose estradiol which did nothing for my neuropathy, but stopped the palpitations within a couple of days. So I know something is going on hormone-wise...I just don't know what. |
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09-28-2015, 06:30 PM | #2 | ||
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Wow, thanks for all this. This is something I've been researching for a long time. It may offer some explanation regarding the mystery of my neuropathy, at least a chunk of it. There are labs that can test for this and many other treatments that may cause more harm than good.
This is one of the labs that offers testing. http://www.iversongenetics.com/emetab-panel.html Last edited by February; 09-28-2015 at 07:24 PM. |
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"Thanks for this!" says: | janieg (09-28-2015) |
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