Re:PURPLE FEET and CIDP

[Guest guest]

Dear Imran,

 

Thank you for this link. It is filled with information. What stood out was

the following paragraph below. For the first time in my life I told the

Doctor that I was not able to get up from squatting without using my hands to

push myself up. She just smiled when I said that and did not see it as a

symptom.

 

With the weakness in my legs and sometimes my arms.....and the purple color

in the feet and more redness in the hands, the increasing number of spider

veins in the lower legs, depression, stress, and a sense of feeling stuck, not

having an outlet for a life purpose (not being hired as a Health teacher) I

feel myself working overtime trying to save myself from being sucked down the

drain. I feel invisible and invalidated and it is becoming a harder struggle

to go on with life. Iam beginning to lose my backbone and fiery disposition.

I am only 57 and living alone. I have had many losses in my life. I don't

want to be alone and I want a teaching job, but nothing is happening.

Fighting depression has become my number # 1 job. I dont take meds for it. I

just want a friendly face in my life and some companionship and a good job. If

stress can cause CIDP, that is amazing to me. I do everything to be

positive, productive and useful, and I am not moving in the direction that I

have

been trained to do at this age. I just graduated college at age 54. I am

running out of smiles as the time clicks away and my education is not being

utilized in the way I hoped. I have to force myself to anything and the

depression and I battle one another daily. I am not going down this way. I

refuse to

go down this way. I have to force myself to get dressed because I have no

where to go and no one to meet.

 

Today I will see the Nutritionalist at the free clinic. I am going to write

down this information from the site you gave cause my printer is broken. I

have to winterize the house and get on the roof and on ladders. I have not

been addressing the WEAKNESS in my legs I just thought I was out of shape and

overwhelmed with the amount of hard work I have to do on my own due to lack

of funds. I thought the high blood pressure was from severe stress.

 

Thank you so much for this link. I need to find out if there is a test for

this by reading further.

 

Linda

 

snippet

<<In CIDP, early in the course the person has to use their hands to go

upstairs or rise from the squatting position, these are signs of legs becoming

weaker. Some have difficulty to maintain their blood pressure, burning

sensations like, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy. Complex regional pain syndrome

is more

likely to be CIDP. >>

 

 

_Autoimmune diseases and Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy

(CIDP) support group_ (http://www.cidpusa.org/)

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Dear Linda,

If you have difficulty getting out of a chair you are along with CIDP likely

to have polymyositis, which means inflamed and weak muscles in the hip.

 

Even if you have stayed positive, pollution and a bad diet which we all get no

matter how hard we try. As years of chemical farming has spread pollution and

chemicals in every soil around the world. The polar bears and Dolphins in the

Artic have chemicals in their blood. So do all of us.

 

The pollution is causing the disease. So help yourself read the e-book from

www.cidpusa.org.

 

We have to detoxify, reduce inflammation and get rid of germs to stay healthy.

 

Ron

 

 

 

 

 

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