I've been a casual observer for many months now - my PMR was 'gone' (ie in remission/on holiday/not troubling me) and I had adjusted to Adrenal Insufficiency and a likely permanent dose of Hydrocortisone and Vitamin D.
I recovered from a dose of covid about 3 weeks ago.
On Saturday afternoon I was walking my dogs when I suddenly felt light headed, started sweating, especially sweaty legs for some reason, and started to have heart palpitations. It was cold and raining but I felt feverish and had to take my coat off and lie down on a bench in the park - the dogs jumped on me, licked me and generally barked until I sat up.
I walked home in a bit of a daze with a few stops to sit on a wall on the way. As soon as I got in I was craving orange juice/something sweet and also something salty, then gave myself an emergency injection and fell asleep for 3 hours....
Have been very drowsy all yesterday and today and now feeling much better. Haven't contacted a medic/Dr, so not sure of this was a flare, a crisis or linked to getting over covid. Interested to know if others have had the above symptoms and how they dealt with it.
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I think I would want a test for type 2 diabetes if that happened to me. It sounds like a hypoglycaemic ( if that is the correct term for low blood sugar) episode more than anything, to me. Whatever it was, it needs medical investigation. Good luck!
how scary for you...I think anything like this, which is way outside your normal functioning, should be taken to a doctor asap. A visit to ER at the time would not have been unreasonable....
Sounds very much like adrenals and could well have been a leftover from Covid, or as suggested low blood pressure - and I agree you do need to get medical attention.
Sounds familiar! Had an adrenal crisis myself last week. Local ED , yes not A and E anymore, seemed to think was Adrenal. What was dinned into me was that although I have emergency hydrocortisone must always call ambulance and be observed after having it in case of problems. So I spent 4 hours on a confortable trolley in what I first thought was a freezing corridor but turned out it was me that was cold, when I recovered the corridor turned out to be the usual hospital temperature.
My Fitbit recorded AF during the night before the crisis and I had been aware of it in the days befire. For a few days before I had been either too hot or too cold and very tired. Like you I had felt the need to stopand rest during dog walking.The problem is that by the time I get to see a doctor after these incidents I have largely recovered, however I have been told repeatedly that I must.
That is what 999 is for - you give yourself the jab and call 999 so they can check everything out and take you to the ED if they feel you need monitoring. A GP is next to useless in those cases anyway.
I should have called 999, though I was mindful of (a) the wait for a paramedic [n hours] (b) if I went myself to A&E I'd be sitting for n hours (at least 3) (c) I always feel that is one is not bleeding out of one's eyes, then A&E is vv slow.
After all that - I should have called or got my other half to take me to A&E
If you wave the HC needle at them in triage and say incipient adrenal crisis they would probably look! And if you collapse in the ED, they are there to pick you up!
Pro, Is it GP or consultant that gives you a HC emergency jab to have? Not even an endo mentioned this to me when he told me my adrenals were not working. Just wondering. Tks.
I would have thought the consultant - I don't know. Maybe put up a post asking the question, there are one or two on the forum who have been given them.
The Endocrinologist consultant prescribed this for me as it is made up at the hospital in their labs it can not be done through the GP or at the GP. As I was unable to get to the hospital they delivered it. If I need a replacement I have to go through the hospital.
Sounds more like adrenal insufficiency to me - and you say you gave yourself an emergency injection, I assume of hydrocortisone? Certainly not a flare of PMR - they don't come as short episodes, they keep going.
Yes, correct, an emergency injection of Hydrocortisone Sodium Phosphate to be precise. As unpleasant as it was, I'm thankful it wasn't a return of PMR.
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