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Just some additional stuff in the last few days. Very intense pain now over all my face, shoulders, hips, thighs, ankles, hands and feet. #8+ most places, I suppose. This may be neuropathy, but I would bet on Vasculitis or my chronic lymphocytic leukemia and anemia. I keep up my 4,000 daily limit of acetaminophen, and grease my hands and face with psoriasis cream with aspirin. Tried Mary Jane once, but wrecked our car in the driveway because I could not find the brake pedal. Took morphine once, after a spine surgery, gave me such nightmares! Was convinced I was being help in jail in Butte, Montana. Hands, arms and face have about 1,000 1/4" diameter gray spots where the purpura vasculitis has sprouted in every spot I have ever had some broken skin from med needles or from pimples or blisters. Now both upper arms covered with pimples. My left arm, which I burned severely on a hot steam pipe 60 years ago, is now covered with a large patch of macular skin. Mac skin looks like this:#########. High kappa and lambda proteins, BUN, ANA are high. Bleed everywhere: Any skin break, nose, mouth, eyes, penis, anus, everywhere. Both kidneys failing, liver failing, lungs filling with "stuff", esophageal cancer started with Barrett's. Upper eyelids both now partially cover the pupils. Lower eyelids both now red with purpura. Takes me about two hours to get up in the morning, do meds, shower, breakfast. Doesn't leave me much time for dancing. But Mayo and OHSU said I don't have any problems. Heart fine, but blood pressure dropping and pulse speeding up and palpitating heavier. Brodmann 24 and 9 in the brain seem to be fading with the attack by Gelsolin fibrils. Ears have heavy macular skin around the rims. Bridge of nose, between the eyes, is flattening out as the skin sags from the forehead. And my glucose, read by my Libre machine, is climbing steadily. But, thanks to the good docs who have had me on methotrexate (.8mg weekly) for several years, I don't have any problems that would even be noticeable at Mayo, OHSU, or the other places I have gone.
That's great, thanks Karl. I hope you've managed to find some relief as that's a lot of symptoms to manage. Yeah, I'm clueless as to what I'm dealing with. I've definitely noticed my teeth becoming more fragile, I've got a large cavity that needs sorting asap. I'm trying not to pin my hopes on these bloods, as many have stated the difficulty of identifying the condition.