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My family expects me to keep going. I am allergic to over 50 medications so I can’t take anything. I am now taking IVIG but the doctor is just now experimenting with it.
I have autoimmune severe axonal sensorimotor peripheral polyneuropathy. Dysautonomia. Small fiber neuropathy, Cardiac autonomic neuropathy (it moves into your organs because you have nerves there) so my blood pressure goes up or down my heart rate is either bradycardia ( too slow)or tachycardia (too fast) this causes me to pass out, gastroparsis, seizures, Sjogrens and Lupus. It’s frustrating you just do not plan in advance. I have learned when I feel good I get out and about when I don’t feel good I don’t do anything.
I don’t feel my hands so I am constantly cutting myself and due to the motor neuropathy I-have tremors so my husband cuts up my food and sometimes has to feed me and I have a cup with a lid that I don’t spill water on me. Yes, it’s frustrating because one thing that frustrates me is when people tell me they know how I feel but they have nothing wrong with them. Oh yeah then you have lower back problems
My legs are starting to drag,I have dizziness and nausea

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Hi,
I'm on the same path as you, but not as advanced. For me my entire digestive system is compromised from throat to the other end. Like you I savour the better days and try to cram in as much as possible while I can. On bad days I sit and watch endless movies, mostly through the eyelids while I wait it out. Touch wood my heart has evaded the effects of Dysautonomia although it has tried to get me a few times. I get moments of temporary paralysis which affect the lower body and can leave me standing frozen and unable to move or tempt a muscle to move, fortunately they are short lived and pass. My motor skills are deteriorating which I find difficult to handle having been a watch, clock and instrument maker most of my life. Recently I woke unable to speak or think of how to speak, it tool a few moments but it passed. I have diabetic neuropathy creeping up my legs and in my hands, I can not tell you what I'm standing on or handling without looking. I only get internal tremors so far and do not get nausea but I'm cursed with vertigo and tinitus constantly. I try not to let my health issues get to me by working every moment I can, hard, unwilling to surrender to this devastaing disease.
I understand and feel the frustration myself dealing with my Dysautonomia.
Cheers

Yes!!! Nothing wrong with them at all and it just pusses you off!! 🤬🤬🤬!! I’m sorry you’re going through all that. I have tremors to. And neuropathy in my feet & hands. I drop a lot of things & i can’t cut fresh vegetables & stuff because they’re to hard but i can still cut my food as of now. But I do throw my fork across the table occasionally 😂.