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MadamMim2013

jk0 wrote: »

As you guys know, I have a fairly isolated life beetling away at my flats, so I guess I don't come in contact with germs regularly...


So any time I go somewhere people are sitting close, I seem to pick up germs from them. Last Christmas I got quite a bad cold from a bus journey. The one where I abandonned my car at gridlocked Savacentre.


Recently, I had to go to the doctors regarding loosing feeling in a couple of toes. (He has no idea what the trouble is.) However, as usual, three days afterwards I started a runny nose & sore throat.


Any thoughts, regarding my toes, or avoiding people's germs?

Hi.. Just a thought..
I began losing the sensation in my toes, fingers and eventually face.. Along with no immune system (caught everything going and shingles!) brain fog, fatigue.. etc..
Took them a long while and with my Aunts insistance I got the Dr to check my B12 level it was through the floor, turns out I had pernicious anemia (runs in the family for me) that said, it could be that your B12 level is really low, that and (or) your vitamin D.. You'll have to specifically ask the Dr to test for these as its not part of routine bloods.. Worth a shot?

DigForVictory

I think immune systems need that peck of dirt, but I scout & so get a happy dose most weeks. Otherwise saline, soap & please see your medic about toes! You only get 10 & it's really tricky getting shoes if you start misplacing toes. Hoping the reason Why is manageable, if not mendable!

Me, I get sore throats most winters. Sometimes quinsy (red tonsils, yellow spots), sometimes a good try at tonsillitis (red, big, breathing OK Just). Our practice nurse has introduced me to Covonia throat spray which tastes every bit as vile as you might imagine but properly targeted gets at the sorest bits, so my appearances for antibiotics has fallen.
To my annoyance a son has also "discovered" this & is "splashing it about" rather more than I budgeted for - I had to buy a new bottle! I have made it clear that if I catch him using it as a bioweapon on his brother I'll do Something Nasty, then left his imagination to finish the sentence.

Eldest has given me his ipod nano since he no longer uses it! It's now been wiped & is having a stack of audio books loaded onto it to lend to youngest, who is struggling to find audio books he can work to. Walk, yes, work, not so much. I thin he's onto a hiding to nothing for working & audio books myself (other than as a noise masker), but a good book to walk back from school to is much easier.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Nonnadiluca wrote: »

What are you doing with my husband?😀

Sorry about that. Currently attempting to dissuade him from 'teaching' himself the tin whistle by teaching him to play the Blackadder theme on recorder instead. Still somewhat hellish, but not quite as piercingly agonising as the former instrument of torture when he has no concept of breath control, embouchure (or pitch, timing, how to hold it, fingerings for notes....). Sometime I really do wish he'd stick to being the Guitartwat of the house. [studiously ignoring the bit where I have learned piano, flute, bodhran, drums, keyboard, clarinet, guitar, bass, ukulele, mandolin in addition to my original instruments of recorder and trumpet....]

jk0 wrote: »

As you guys know, I have a fairly isolated life beetling away at my flats, so I guess I don't come in contact with germs regularly...


So any time I go somewhere people are sitting close, I seem to pick up germs from them. Last Christmas I got quite a bad cold from a bus journey. The one where I abandonned my car at gridlocked Savacentre.


Recently, I had to go to the doctors regarding loosing feeling in a couple of toes. (He has no idea what the trouble is.) However, as usual, three days afterwards I started a runny nose & sore throat.


Any thoughts, regarding my toes, or avoiding people's germs?

I'd look at making sure I got sufficient vitamins - being inside a lot means you're likely (as all of us are in this [strike]Godforsaken[/strike] Land of milk and honey) to have very low Vitamin D and you might not be getting enough other vitamins in your diet. I'd also check my shoes aren't tied too tightly. And then I'd go back to the GP for him to exclude stuff like diabetes and give all the medical advice he's qualified to give.

As per germs, it's what happens outside sterile bubbles. Washing hands, using hand gel & getting the flu jab and any other vaccinations that you've missed or are out of date can only do so much, but sometimes it can be enough.

jk0

Thanks guys. Some interesting thoughts there. I will buy some of that First Defence stuff.


Regarding my toes, I am changing all my shoes today, just in case any are pressing somewhere.

thriftwizard

What are you doing with my husband?��

Sounds just like mine too! Yet he's also the man who will throw out anything in the fridge that is one day past it's sell-by, even when I've said I'm planning something with it. Or anything that doesn't have a sell-by, because I've cooked it myself. Sigh...

DigForVictory

jk0 wrote: »

Regarding my toes, I am changing all my shoes today, just in case any are pressing somewhere.

From an MS perspective, please see that medic first? As shoes are expensive..

mardatha

jk0 that might be B12 , as MM said, ask to be rested for pernicious anaemia and ask for the actual number of your B12, it should be above 70. It might come back at 24 and they'll still tell you it's "fine" - don't believe them lol, it should be around 70. My hubby has had PA for many years and he had the numb toes thing.

littlemoney

mardatha wrote: »

jk0 that might be B12 , as MM said, ask to be rested for pernicious anaemia and ask for the actual number of your B12, it should be above 70. It might come back at 24 and they'll still tell you it's "fine" - don't believe them lol, it should be around 70. My hubby has had PA for many years and he had the numb toes thing.

The B12 result number will can vary from one laboratory to another. In my area a test result below 190 is deficient. The important thing is for the reading to be at the top end of the range.

Jk0 you need to ask your doctor to test for B12 and vitamin D. If you lack one, often the other is also low.

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DigForVictory

Noone we know is holidaying in Jordan. around Petra are they?

As flash flooding is tricky to prep for other than learn to swim & keep your ID stuff waterproof.

Then sacrifice a sock (if you only have 2, locate someone else's) to make a water filter & be Very British about boiling said water before drinking. Adding tea adds charm but the results may not cooperate with toothpaste - may you not need to worry about this!