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Hello Folks,
It's been some while since I last posted, but I didn't forget you.
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I've looked through a few of your posts and do want to add a few bits relative to multiple posts and psoriasis.
Geographic tongue is an uncommon type of psoriasis, as psoriasis does not usually affect the mucuous membranes. The operant word there is usually. It usually doesn't affect the interior of the nose either. But mine has done both and yours can too.
Psoriasis can be much worse than you can imagine by what it usually does. Often it accounts for arthritis, but the interior inflammation it can account for eventually is even more dangerous. Many people with long-standing psoriasis need to have multiple heart valves replaced. I'm in that condition now.
The best things I've read about psoriasis indicate that you should eliminate grains from your diet at a minimum. I did that until I had really bad gallbladder problems and went back on a standard diet.
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The other reason to post is that I want to mention my theory that some folks here might have had a stroke to the pons area of the brain. For sure I have had one, verified by CT scan and then a MRI of the brain.
I'm also very sure that I've had more than one stroke to that same area of the brain, because some of the symptoms were identical to what I experienced in October, and also likely in July of 2014 (I sort of think I recall the date but it might have been July of 2013).
If you go to bed one night and you're functioning about the same as always, at least in the relative recent past, but wake up the next morning feeling that you must have gained 100 pounds overnight or something like that, that's how you feel if you're lucky enough to still be semi-functioning.
That symptom was unmistakeable. It's a strain to get your muscles to work with a stroke to the pons area. I kind of think that it often affects the heart muscle too. (My ejection fraction went from 30% one year ago to 20% this January. It seems like it hit me overnight in October, the same time I happened to see the hand ortho doctor for a change in hand sensitivity.) I also have had chest muscles issues and bladder issues with the most recent stroke.
My cardiologist scoffed at the idea of chronic fatigue syndrome a year and a half ago.
If I hadn't had extra symtoms this time with speech (not pronouncing words well or easily), I likely would not have called the doctor, who sent me to the emergency room.
The point: some of you could be suffering the same way I suffered thinking that other things (there are plenty of serious issues for me) could easily account for my tiredness. I never in this world thought STROKE. But now I know that I had them.
Bottom line: it wouldn't hurt to try taking an aspirin every day. You might also try taking Lipitor or a similar anti-cholesterol medication (though I had a terrible time with that and have had to skip that strategy). Just in case you might have had a stroke, to make a repeat less likely.
By the way, I notice that multiple people here have had trouble typing correctly. I've always had a very few typing errors - nothing remarkable and easy to correct. But I've struggled since my stroke, to put it mildly. Corrections are difficult, there are so many errors. My handwriting, once rather easy to read, is awful now. I'm expecting the bank to start worrying about an imposter signing my checks...
I may not have anything else to post. Google stroke to the pons area of the brain and you'll pull up some stuff that will seem familiar to some of you.
Best wishes, Mary
It's been some while since I last posted, but I didn't forget you.
==
I've looked through a few of your posts and do want to add a few bits relative to multiple posts and psoriasis.
Geographic tongue is an uncommon type of psoriasis, as psoriasis does not usually affect the mucuous membranes. The operant word there is usually. It usually doesn't affect the interior of the nose either. But mine has done both and yours can too.
Psoriasis can be much worse than you can imagine by what it usually does. Often it accounts for arthritis, but the interior inflammation it can account for eventually is even more dangerous. Many people with long-standing psoriasis need to have multiple heart valves replaced. I'm in that condition now.
The best things I've read about psoriasis indicate that you should eliminate grains from your diet at a minimum. I did that until I had really bad gallbladder problems and went back on a standard diet.
==
The other reason to post is that I want to mention my theory that some folks here might have had a stroke to the pons area of the brain. For sure I have had one, verified by CT scan and then a MRI of the brain.
I'm also very sure that I've had more than one stroke to that same area of the brain, because some of the symptoms were identical to what I experienced in October, and also likely in July of 2014 (I sort of think I recall the date but it might have been July of 2013).
If you go to bed one night and you're functioning about the same as always, at least in the relative recent past, but wake up the next morning feeling that you must have gained 100 pounds overnight or something like that, that's how you feel if you're lucky enough to still be semi-functioning.
That symptom was unmistakeable. It's a strain to get your muscles to work with a stroke to the pons area. I kind of think that it often affects the heart muscle too. (My ejection fraction went from 30% one year ago to 20% this January. It seems like it hit me overnight in October, the same time I happened to see the hand ortho doctor for a change in hand sensitivity.) I also have had chest muscles issues and bladder issues with the most recent stroke.
My cardiologist scoffed at the idea of chronic fatigue syndrome a year and a half ago.
If I hadn't had extra symtoms this time with speech (not pronouncing words well or easily), I likely would not have called the doctor, who sent me to the emergency room.
The point: some of you could be suffering the same way I suffered thinking that other things (there are plenty of serious issues for me) could easily account for my tiredness. I never in this world thought STROKE. But now I know that I had them.
Bottom line: it wouldn't hurt to try taking an aspirin every day. You might also try taking Lipitor or a similar anti-cholesterol medication (though I had a terrible time with that and have had to skip that strategy). Just in case you might have had a stroke, to make a repeat less likely.
By the way, I notice that multiple people here have had trouble typing correctly. I've always had a very few typing errors - nothing remarkable and easy to correct. But I've struggled since my stroke, to put it mildly. Corrections are difficult, there are so many errors. My handwriting, once rather easy to read, is awful now. I'm expecting the bank to start worrying about an imposter signing my checks...
I may not have anything else to post. Google stroke to the pons area of the brain and you'll pull up some stuff that will seem familiar to some of you.
Best wishes, Mary
