Symptoms, before

Needing to document what’s up with me before venoplasty, here is as good a place as any. Here we go, stuff that affects me daily, weekly, monthly:

Fatigue

Chronic pain: lower back, arms, neck, shoulder, headache

Numbness: right arm and hand, both legs

Cold hands (mostly rt hand)

Zingers, burning, pins, tingling: both arms, rt shoulder, rt hand, neck, rt leg

Weakness: rt leg, rt hand — difficulty grasping and holding onto objects, frequently dropping things

Whooshing sound inside my head or in my ears — usually when I first get up in the morning

Purple foot (rt side)

Optic neuritis currently resolving rt eye

Floaters in vision (mostly left eye)

Bladder (urgency, frequency, retention)

No dreams

Emotional lability

Loss of sense of taste/smell

Loss of interest in food

Insomnia

Clicking/popping/pain in neck (mostly rt side)

Motion sickness (severe)

Poor coordination

Frequent falls

Knee buckles (rt knee, what a shock)

Sensitivity to heat/humidity

Muscle spasms (mostly rt leg),

Some cog fog/memory problems

Tinnitus

Hyperreactive reflexes in both legs

Other things that might be related? Whiplash injury at age 16, TMJ, TOS, anemia?

In addition, I have developed a sensitivity to hydrocodone, so painkillers like Vicodin or Norco don’t work for me (unless you consider barfing each morning to be okey-dokey. Me, I couldn’t handle it). Neurontin is somewhat helpful for zingers, but it’s also the brain-destroyer that makes me stoopid. And I’m tired of herbal meds that are only somewhat helpful. It’s all a giant clusterfuck.
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