If possible I wanted to ask people's thoughts, opinions, suggestions...
For basically decades my mother has suffered a recurring problem that seems metabolic, and is absolutely debilitating when it occurs. She can be fine for months, even years, but suddenly gets heart racing, shakiness, feeling weak, low body temperature, nausea - which affect her for hours or days until she recovers. Bowel movement can be one of the things which can help recovery to be quicker, but in general it seems to be 'wait it out'.
She also mentions unusual symptoms sometimes around these episodes, such as she may often get a feeling of water running down her nose just when one of these episodes is going to start. Another strange one is that she far more frequently gets electric shocks off anything metal during such times.
It seems to be 'something' knocking her sympathetic / parasympathetic out of whack, and I've long thought she's had a physical problem wih her vagus nerve (when she was at school she had an accident on a vaulting horse which certainly damaged her neck - although she recovered I've always wondered if that has caused an issue which sometimes can compress or interfere with her vagus nerve as it passes through the vertebrae, and trigger those episodes).
Those symptoms were once triggered by an osteopath working on her back, and again by a reflexologist working on her feet (in the area associated with her back), so there seems 'something' physically wrong.
Most recently she was suggested to get a cortisone injection to help reduce some knee inflammation, and...wow. It has completely knocked her fir six, it's been two weeks to try and get back to normal.
So cortisone injection triggering massively may support that it's an issue with nervous system balance...but what to do?
In the past I've suggested trying things to boost metabolism / help settle down nervous system, so warm bath, fruit juice, meditation, those kind of things, but they don't help. If cortison can be a trigger, could an antagonist perhaps be helpful? Progesterone?
Any suggestions helpful. She's seen many many doctors, who have come up with basically nothing, so looking around for any ideas she could try, or if anyone has experienced anything like this?
Many thanks
For basically decades my mother has suffered a recurring problem that seems metabolic, and is absolutely debilitating when it occurs. She can be fine for months, even years, but suddenly gets heart racing, shakiness, feeling weak, low body temperature, nausea - which affect her for hours or days until she recovers. Bowel movement can be one of the things which can help recovery to be quicker, but in general it seems to be 'wait it out'.
She also mentions unusual symptoms sometimes around these episodes, such as she may often get a feeling of water running down her nose just when one of these episodes is going to start. Another strange one is that she far more frequently gets electric shocks off anything metal during such times.
It seems to be 'something' knocking her sympathetic / parasympathetic out of whack, and I've long thought she's had a physical problem wih her vagus nerve (when she was at school she had an accident on a vaulting horse which certainly damaged her neck - although she recovered I've always wondered if that has caused an issue which sometimes can compress or interfere with her vagus nerve as it passes through the vertebrae, and trigger those episodes).
Those symptoms were once triggered by an osteopath working on her back, and again by a reflexologist working on her feet (in the area associated with her back), so there seems 'something' physically wrong.
Most recently she was suggested to get a cortisone injection to help reduce some knee inflammation, and...wow. It has completely knocked her fir six, it's been two weeks to try and get back to normal.
So cortisone injection triggering massively may support that it's an issue with nervous system balance...but what to do?
In the past I've suggested trying things to boost metabolism / help settle down nervous system, so warm bath, fruit juice, meditation, those kind of things, but they don't help. If cortison can be a trigger, could an antagonist perhaps be helpful? Progesterone?
Any suggestions helpful. She's seen many many doctors, who have come up with basically nothing, so looking around for any ideas she could try, or if anyone has experienced anything like this?
Many thanks