for bernadette - was severe spinning etc

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Hi Bernie,

I am no expert or have experience with these severe symptoms. However,

your daughter sounds so miserable I just had to respond.

I have read a lot about food allergies because I have some. I wonder if

getting checked out for food allergies might be an option to

investigate. The reactions you describe as being directly attributable

to food intake is one clue--the body is rejecting something. Another is

the digestion problem--undigested food, heartburn, constipation. These

can be signs of severe food allergies, since the body can lose the

ability to properly process food or various reasons if a food allergy

is severe and longstanding, One of the results is also an inability to

absorb sufficient minerals and vitamins, including iron. A severe food

allergy, undetected, can really mess up the system. A really good

allergist might be of some use, though from what I've read, most people

discover the cause on their own, with the help of others who have had

similar experiences, or with the help of alternative healers. It seems

to require some careful detecting.

Lenore

in Seattle

> Has anyone had these and what was the cause and or treatment.  We can't

> seem to figure out what would be effective treatment.

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> Approximately once of twice a month, when my 17 yr old eats a larger

> heavy protein, or fatty meal she will wake in the night with severe,

> severe spinning dizziness. When little (7 or 8) she would describe this

> as being in a tornado.  Each time, she is sweating profusely and

> pyjamas

> are wet, yes wet, had to be sweating long before waking..  She is pale,

> pale, pale and sometimes gets dusky, unable to focus eyes due to

> dizziness.  She has extreme, extreme nausea, is shaking and can't bear

> to be touched, says even her skin is crawling.  She is extremely upset.

> Sometimes, she will throw up sour smelling partially or undigested

> food.

> I have learned to treat the episode by giving her gravol 50 mgm po

> before she throws up or after, if unable to swallow it soon enough.  It

> is very difficult for her to make herself swallow the gravol and water

> with so much nausea.  The other thing that helps is domperidone 10 mgm

> which I usually get her to take before the gravol.  She has domperidone

> 10 mgm prn up to 4 times per day ordered. If she has any nausea after

> an

> evening meal I will get her to take domperidone then, and often before

> bed in an effort to prevent occurrences which are so frightening to us

> both and so horrible for her to endure.  The episode usually lasts 10

> to

> 20 minutes and she is totally exhausted afterwards, falling asleep in

> total exhaustion although she is too frightened to return to own bed.

> Often, her muscles in arms and legs and neck will be achy, stiff the

> next day.

>

>   She gets full very quickly at meals and eats small or tiny amts.at

> all

> meals.  Problem is she seems to be eating less and less all the time

> and

> few vegetables and almost no red meat, or any meat for that matter. Hg.

> is borderline.  She used to like salmon, but now the odour of it causes

> nausea.  I know her protein intake is inadequate but protein food is a

> major trigger for nausea or turning her off a meal entirely, but

> particularly triggers these nighttime episodes.  The other contributing

> trigger is a more physically active day...say if we took her to the

> swimming pool that day and she came home hungry and ate more than usual

> for her.   Right now she lives on Mr. Noodle, sometimes made into egg

> drop soup, or Kraft dinner with extra Cheese Whiz in it, the odd half

> banana, half peanut butter sandwich.

>  

> On weekends, when she does not need to focus and take LA Dexedrine that

> totally kills her appetite, she can eat bacon and eggs plus a better

> dinner.  These episodes occur almost entirely on weekends with larger

> food intake....also 2nd day of her period, or when she has a virus.

> Unfortunately, snack foods like salty pop corn, potato chips and

> cheesies are fairly well tolerated but perhaps it is the high salt

> content that allows for digestion of these foods in view of her Low BP

> and Orthostatic Intolerance.  On 5 occaisons she has had episodes while

> awake and up that resulted very quickly in vomiting, almost projectile

> in nature.  She also has some heartburn, usually experienced on waking

> in the morning and she has always been a constipated kid from infancy.

> My sister was amazed I never had to deal with any gooey, messy diapers

> and the leaking down the leg, not once.

> It seems to me like food is staying in the stomach too long, not

> getting

> out of it, or not being moved along through the bowel adequately. Has

> no

> loose B.M.'s or wind.

>

> Doctors thought that she could be having sleep apnea and she just had a

> sleep study indicating no apnea but restless leg syndrome which we have

> both known for years.  She also has some deep sleep with lots of

> dreaming (rem sleep)...so sleep apnea is not the problem.  I was

> tempted

> to hold her Dexedrine and take her for Chinese to trigger a night

> episode during the study, but episodes are so horrible that even I,

> tough mother that I have had to become could not bring myself to do

> this

> to her.  Might have been better to have forced myself to do so,

> however.

>

> Mike, do you have any polarity or acupressure methods that I could try

> and how often does one have to do them to get continuous results?  If

> anyone has had similar a pattern, and investigation that yielded

> answers

> plus effective treatment it would be so great to hear.  Sorry for the

> length, but I felt best to provide the full picture as she had a

> painful

> rigid untouchable abdomen with daytime episode last Sun.  Rigid,

> painful

> abdomen is new aspect but resolved after 40 min. with domperidone and

> when nausea and dizziness subsided.

> Thanks in advance for all suggestions and similar experiences.

> Bernie

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