Mesothelioma Symptom: Autonomic Neuropathy
Mesothelioma Symptom: Autonomic Neuropathy
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Autonomic Neuropathy
Autonomic neuropathy is relatively common in my world of medical care. 50% of those who come to my office have it because they have diabetes. Many people don’t know they have autonomic neuropathy because they are unaware that they have the symptoms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic_nervous_system
This is Wikipedia’s anatomy of the autonomic nervous system and it is defined by dysfunction of one or two of the nerves of the system. These nerves act in a “Yin and Yang”, acting in a push and pull fashion against each other normally. When the relationship becomes dysfunctional, one of the two nerves dominates and causes symptoms.
What are the symptoms? For starters in such a wide ranging set of nerves working in multiple areas can have multiple actions. The two nerves are called Parasympathetic and Sympathetic nerves and their actions work on the alpha and beta function that dominates each nerve.
The list is,
Excess sweating or markedly decreased sweating.
Tears may diminish and eyes become dry.
Blood pressure makes wild swings up and down.
Delay in stomach emptying.
Severe constipation.
Uncontrolled diarrhea.
Can’t urinate.
Can’t control urination.
Decreased pulse, increased pulse.
Pupil dilates, pupil contracts.
Relaxes or contracts coronary arteries
Impotent
Johnny Cash was the most famous individual I know who spoke openly about his diabetic autonomic neuropathy problems but most individuals dismiss the symptoms by attributing it all to “getting old”.
A good friend with “tough” type 2 diabetes refused to ever get tested, saying “I don’t need that” and “I feel fine”. I felt he was very symptomatic despite his protests. That was over ten years ago and we had a different testing system then. He was found dead in bed a month later by his family while on vacation.
Sudden death is the most feared problem of autonomic neuropathy. When the call comes to increase your heart rate with your cardio exercise to some higher level perhaps you don’t necessarily need to it. Sudden death may occur as the first symptom of autonomic neuropathy, not just heart attacks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSYS
Above is the Wikipedia link to the device we use. I was contacted by the ANSYS Company some time after the device company we used went out of business. The genesis of the device lay in the continued medical understanding of wave form analysis and how it can be used for more than evaluation of cardiovascular disease.
The intellectual start began with Individuals from
Switzerland, Israel, US and India. It was approved by the FDA over a year ago and its use is growing very fast outside the US.
With my involvement early in the course of development, I began using products known to be useful in other neurologic states. We have had very good success when the etiology of this is diabetes. If the neuropathy is due to some other disorder it takes longer and could be as long as 6 months. With diabetes it usually is 6 weeks before normal. As would be expected, Type 2 Diabetes is more common but when neuropathy is present with type 1, it may be more resistant to reversal. Not everyone may recover.
In the last several weeks two young men went to normal after treatment. Both had excessive sweating since grade school and often wondered how they happened to receive such a “blessing” since they had no underlying disorder. One still wonders how his wife could ever have been attracted to him; he was at a “full sweat”, soaking his shirt within minutes of showering.
It finally is their time.
See Dr. Joe, The Uncommon Doctor, at www.endocrinemetabolic.com
