Re: Sulfasazaline & Trembling

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Hi everyone,

My RD called me back yesterday to suggest two things:

1) Stay OFF the Azulfidine

2) The trembling is probably caused by the fibromyalgia

Well, duh!

Thank you, , for writing:

> I agree. It does sound like a symptom of low blood sugar.

>If you don't have any testing equipment and it happens again,

>try drinking a 1/2 cup of orange juice. If it's low blood sugar,

you will notice an improvement in how you feel very quickly.

>If this does work, ABSOLUTELY SEE YOUR DOCTOR.

> Hypoglycaemia is nothing to fool around with.

I will certainly keep that in mind. I usually drink fruit juice or

hot spiced tea all day long as well as a lot of water.

Thanks a for reminding me about the sugar levels. My RD has

been doing a lot of lab work, including UA which was negative for

glucose. I'll have to dig through the older lab sheets to check

further.

Thanks, too, to the one who reminded me about checking thyroid

levels. My RD has palpated it (I have a neck that just draws

attention from doctors ever since I was a student nurse because

it's short and the muscle have to kinda bulge into the space. It

became quite common for a dr just walking down a hall to order me

to " turn around " so he could check my neck with my back to him. )

It has been almost 3 weeks since I've taken the Azulfidine and I

am feeling like a worthwhile HUMAN again. I began feeling MUCH

different on Sunday after being off it for 2 weeks. I seem to

recall others writing that it made them feel like they had flu.

I'm tolerating noise better during the day until early evening.

But the trembling is still with me. I've got the 'butterflies in

formation' and the sounds in my head are forming into chords and short

tunes. So I now have music where before it was just annoying noise.

A phrase from an old song: " There's a whole lot of shaking going on! "

Another of my 'personal' experiments is to see what happens if I get

good sleep at night with the assistance of Ambien. I'm convinced that

that is one key to coping with P, PA and fibro. I have noticed a

definite improvement in the general achiness.

NOW, I've got to get the cholesterol levels down. I watch my diet

fairly closely, so I'm now working in more exercise. It has been warm

enough to work in the yard and garden and now that the depression has

lifted, I'm " in the mood " to get some work done.

Patty B in a lovely Pineywoods of East Texas

The redbud trees are just gorgeous with their color and the dogwood

trees are beginning to open their blooms. Some of my petunias are

already blooming. I LOVE SPRING!!