Good afternoon everyone
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Woke up on 3.7 this morning, probably because of lengthy discussions with the neurologist and shooting down into the village for bog roll.
Anyway, I’m not dying. To explain things, I learnt something yesterday that I didn’t know before. That is, both Ulcerative Colitis, and its treatment (and its preventative) Asacol, can cause peripheral neuropathy. It’s an autoimmune phenomenon.
Now before all this kicked off 4 years ago, I’d just had a flare up of UC treated with Asacol, and steroids. I did tell the neuros in Glasgow, as a sort of by the way, but it didn’t register. Everyone was thrown by the motor neurone only problem - it’s rare in UC and Diabetes.
So what kicked all this off was a rare phenomenon, and the theory is that the Diabetes has slowly chipped away at the damaged motor neurones since, fooling everybody by sticking to the motor neurones. I’ve still got no sensory loss, bit of gastric slowing, perfect eyes and the naughty bits still work.
That’s all what the neurologist worked out, and it sounds plausible.
So here’s the dilemma - do I stop the Asacol because it just might be worsening the neuropathy, and risk a flare up of the UC which almost certainly will?
Is this a great excuse for a pump?
While I ponder these imponderables, have a great day, cos it’s going to get colder. Cast not a clout before May is out
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And you thought Brexit was hard to work out
