my grandma is 72yrs she have burning feet,palms... - Thyroid UK
my grandma is 72yrs she have burning feet,palms and back more at night . she wont get sleep at night. she is suffering only blood pressure.
If the doctor has done a thyroid gland blood test, please get a print-out from the surgery with the ranges and post them for comments. If she hasn't had a blood test ask for a full thyroid function test to be done. Also Vitamin B12, Vit D, iron, ferritin and folate.
Symptoms may be diagnosed by GP as fibromyalgia. One of the symptoms is:-
Symptoms of fibromyalgia typically include:
Feeling of pain, burning, aching, and soreness in the body
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I'm sure either b5 or b6 can help with this in high doses.
This is a link which may be helpful. Especially B12 in the elderly.
Could be Grierson-Gopalan Syndrome (basically burning feet). This is what GP notebook says:
gpnotebook.co.uk/simplepage...
"may be associated with nutritional/endocrine causes e.g.
vitamin B deficiency
diabetes mellitus
renal failure (dialysis patients)
hypothyroidism"
"first line investigations include FBC, ESR, U+Es, B12, TFTs, fasting glucose"
These are the things she should try and get tested. As Shaws has said, B12 deficiency very common as you age.
