Parts of my wife are running hot
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Parts of my wife are running hot
Well, it's her finger tips. They tingle and are visibly red and it is causing considerable discomfort.
She is 60 and is very fit, but has high blood pressure which she refuses to take medication for. She is also a vegetarian, though not a vegan and has masses of daily supplements.
She has considered all the usual things like washing up liquid and the like, but I want to be sure that it is not symptomatic of something like peripheral neuropathy. Is there a visible redness with this condition?
She is 60 and is very fit, but has high blood pressure which she refuses to take medication for. She is also a vegetarian, though not a vegan and has masses of daily supplements.
She has considered all the usual things like washing up liquid and the like, but I want to be sure that it is not symptomatic of something like peripheral neuropathy. Is there a visible redness with this condition?
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Originally Posted by Loose rivets
Well, it's her finger tips. They tingle and are visibly red and it is causing considerable discomfort.
....peripheral neuropathy. Is there a visible redness with this condition?
....peripheral neuropathy. Is there a visible redness with this condition?
Originally Posted by Loose rivets
has high blood pressure which she refuses to take medication for.
Supplements (for which, on a balanced diet, there is no need) won't help.
The "abandon conventional medicine" crew have a lot to answer for.
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In the abscence of any systemic disease; probably Raynauds: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raynaud_disease
Any ergot's in the supplements she's taking?
Must be mad not to take treatment for hypertension: chronic debilitating serious disease so avoidable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertension
Any ergot's in the supplements she's taking?
Must be mad not to take treatment for hypertension: chronic debilitating serious disease so avoidable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertension
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That's about right...This is a woman that runs on gunpowder and would soon stab herself in the eye than listen to me.
Having read the posts, I will again put forward the arguments for taking medication. I think after 41 years of seeing me taking all sorts of pills, she is worried that it might have the same effect.
Having read the posts, I will again put forward the arguments for taking medication. I think after 41 years of seeing me taking all sorts of pills, she is worried that it might have the same effect.
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I had something similar,my fingertips got red and swolen everytime i touched something cold like a can of coke or beer...etc,it just started one day and disappeared a year later,i have no idea why,i still get it though some times but not so often.
I am not a doctor and i rarely visit any doctor apart from ent but my advice is that she should eat normally,being vegetarian in my opinion is very unhealthy.
I am not a doctor and i rarely visit any doctor apart from ent but my advice is that she should eat normally,being vegetarian in my opinion is very unhealthy.
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Originally Posted by european champion
I had something similar,my fingertips got red and swolen everytime i touched something cold like a can of coke or beer...etc,it just started one day and disappeared a year later,i have no idea why,i still get it though some times but not so often.
I am not a doctor and i rarely visit any doctor apart from ent but my advice is that she should eat normally,being vegetarian in my opinion is very unhealthy.
I am not a doctor and i rarely visit any doctor apart from ent but my advice is that she should eat normally,being vegetarian in my opinion is very unhealthy.
Really, tingle was the wrong word. Burning is the better description.
As for being a vegetarian. (35 years) Well, she's in her sixties, seems to be on ‘red-line' all day long--looking after the g-children, dogs, house etc. When we travel, she throws airline baggage around as though it weighs nowt. Define unhealthy.
However, I am worried that underlying factors are stacking up on her. I spent some time last night taking BP with conventional equipment to compare to the Walgreen's mini one. I never got the same reading twice, (I just think that I was not able to interpret the sound accurately enough.) but 170 / 100 seemed to be typical.
I don't want to sound like something for Agony Aunt, but it's a strange time of life. In the period between her age and mine I have gone from very fit to...quite the opposite. Most of my problems stem from lumber pain and not being able to run, but the toughest part is the psychological side of the sudden change. I guess I'm trying to fend off the same thing happening to her.
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Er, grand-mother.
I got a good link thanks to google to fine-tune the sounds that I should be hearing for the traditional type BP apparatus. I can see how these sounds are created, but I'm getting such variability. Of course, I probably have just not got the knack, but our 6M medical BP checks never seemed to take more than a few seconds. After about a minute of careful adjustment, I can't hear for the protestations of the Rivetess. Must try harder.
I got a good link thanks to google to fine-tune the sounds that I should be hearing for the traditional type BP apparatus. I can see how these sounds are created, but I'm getting such variability. Of course, I probably have just not got the knack, but our 6M medical BP checks never seemed to take more than a few seconds. After about a minute of careful adjustment, I can't hear for the protestations of the Rivetess. Must try harder.
