tomcat
12-29-2007, 06:59 PM
Hi all, I've just found this website.
I was diagnosed with APS a few years ago after a severe bout of vomiting and dizziness hospitalised me. After much mucking about with various doctors I am now finally settled and managing my treatment. I'm now on Prednisolone, Amlodopine and Aspirin.
I've been very surprised at the vagueness of the iminologists at my local hospital, they seemed to have little or no knowledge of this condition when it was first diagnosed and had to lookup most of what they conveyed to me.
For some time now I have noticed that if I get a cold or some other sort of infection I get the symptoms of the infection but I also get wierd side effects. Within a matter of a day or so of getting the cold I will start to get sudden 'attack' for want of a better word, these come on quite quickly and I get sick/slightly dizzy, very weak, and also very hot(cold sweat). This will last for a minute or so, and I can have as many as 10 a day if I'm really ill. I've been told that I can adjust my medication to compensate when I get a cold, and this does seem to help keep these 'attacks' at bay. However, none of my doctors can give me a straight answer as to what they are, I thought they might be TIA's but I'm not sure. Has anyone else had anything like this?, or know what it is?.
I was diagnosed with APS a few years ago after a severe bout of vomiting and dizziness hospitalised me. After much mucking about with various doctors I am now finally settled and managing my treatment. I'm now on Prednisolone, Amlodopine and Aspirin.
I've been very surprised at the vagueness of the iminologists at my local hospital, they seemed to have little or no knowledge of this condition when it was first diagnosed and had to lookup most of what they conveyed to me.
For some time now I have noticed that if I get a cold or some other sort of infection I get the symptoms of the infection but I also get wierd side effects. Within a matter of a day or so of getting the cold I will start to get sudden 'attack' for want of a better word, these come on quite quickly and I get sick/slightly dizzy, very weak, and also very hot(cold sweat). This will last for a minute or so, and I can have as many as 10 a day if I'm really ill. I've been told that I can adjust my medication to compensate when I get a cold, and this does seem to help keep these 'attacks' at bay. However, none of my doctors can give me a straight answer as to what they are, I thought they might be TIA's but I'm not sure. Has anyone else had anything like this?, or know what it is?.