Help for my grandmother

Other conditions
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Hello,

I am contacting you on behalf of my grandmother who is suffering from a number of issues and advice from her regular doctors is not coming up with a decent solution. I have asked her to write down from her point of view the problems and here it is:

Ailments:

Diabetic

Chronic Obstruction Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Super Ventrical Tachacardia (SVT)

Epileptic till the age of 50

Woman of 80 years

Description of complaints:

Buzzing, stinging numb swollen feet and legs.

Walking on any type of flooring is painful even carpeted flooring and feels like either the floor is cold, wet, oily or even feels like cold satin cloth.

I cannot wear slippers or socks of any description on my feet as they give me a weird sensation, although I have one pair of shoes that i can tolerate for a few hours.

My clothes feel cold and sometimes oily when getting dressed.

My body temperatures seem to have gone awry. At times i feel as if i am in a sauna and then suddenly i go very cold.

I feel the draughts tremendously indoors, the small amount of air movement by myself or other people seems exaggerated as if the air is being moved around me. This does not feel quite the same with wind or breezes when i am out on a windy day.

I always have to have an electric blanket on at night (although on a low setting).

I have to have toilet seat covers on because the seat feels icy cold even when it’s not cold in the room.

I get electric type shocks darting all over on my body about 6 times or so every day.

I have runny eyes, and am hypersensitive smell to perfumes, deodorant, toothpaste, soap powder, coffee, newspapers, shiny junk mail, cooking smells. cling film. leather seats in car. Everything listed have a very very powerful smell and I have to avoid contact with any of these.

All this this has a depressive feeling on myself and others as i feel like i am alienating myself from other people because of course they can’t smell what i am smelling.

i try to maintain a good diet with my five a day.

My last blood test showed i was slightly low on Magnesium so now eat spinach and almonds every day.

I wish there was somebody out there who can help me get to the bottom of my health problems. I get very sad and weepy as i feel i am locked in to this strange body. I have had numerous tests done and have had appointments with many specialists all to no avail.

Medications:

Omeprazole 20mg

Diamicron 60mg

Metaformin 500mg

Asprin 75mg

I really hope you may be able to give us some advice on things to do, people to see, who to contact or anything that could help her and give her some relief from the problems.

Kind regards,

Neil

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Hi there,

I have some similar symptoms but not all of them. Mine link to the smells being overwhelming and the cold inside where it feels like someone has stirred the air cold. I also am sensitive to sounds where i feel really poorly from these extra sensory feelings.

I am writing to say i understand how isolating it can be as i too feel like that sometimes. I think people struggle to understand how unpleasant it feels to be able to smell things they can't. I can often smell very unpleasant smells too that others can't and wish i couldn't!

I have one foot that goes cold but not the other, on that foot i also get a numb toe, tingling and sometimes shooting pains. Mine link to a car accident and i too have had many tests to no avail. There's been nerve damage after the crash but nothing available to change anything.

I had a nerve conduction test in my legs that showed nothing although one specialist could feel the different temperatures of my feet had no explaination. I think it is extremely frustrating to have issues like this and not have an answer and have had to just put mine down to the accident with no remedy available.

Hope someone else can help with the cold oily sensation.

Beverley

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Appreciate your response.  My grandmother was thrilled to hear about someone else with similar problems to her, as she has felt rather alone with it over the last few months.   That honestly didn't sound right but i'm sure you know what I meant.  Thankyou so much for sharing. I hope you and her both find some relief and soutions to everything. I am hoping some other people may be able to chip in on here with some ideas.

Thanks again.

Neil

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Hi Neil,

Glad it helped a little. Hope you get more replies for the other issues soon.

Beverley