The Interaction Between Coeliac Disease, Hay Fever and My Stroke
I had the stroke about twelve months ago and I thought that by now I would be starting to feel better, but as time goes on, I seem to be feeling worse and worse.
Take today, I got up just around six and felt reasonably good after about eight hours of sleep. I used the hay fever spray on my nose, but when I left home about eleven, I felt that the optimism of the early morning had disappeared. My left shin was tight, as it often is and my nose was blocked solid with the hay fever. After lunch with a friend, I returned to the Angel to do a bit of shopping and could hardly walk back from the bus to my house, such was the tightness in my shin and the pain in my left arm. I checked my e-mails and then lay on the bed, where I fell asleep for a couple of hours. I feel reasonably bright now, although there is a pain in the back of my left shin. What is strange is that I only get pains in my left shin and left arm. I know that was the side of the stroke, but I’ve always had occasional pain in my left arm from where a bully broke it at school and over the past couple of years, I’ve had pain in the back of my left shin, since I trod on a razor shell on Holkham Beach. I couldn’t be sure, but these pains could have been worse in the spring, or should that be hay fever time.
In trying to find out what is wrong, an MRI Scan has shown problems in my neck, where a nerve might be trapped. But it’s nothing serious that good physiotherapy shouldn’t be able to sort out.
If I go back a few weeks, when the pollen was low for a few days, all of the pain disappeared. So it does seem that the pain is partly caused by the pollen levels, which at the moment are moderate. But then they have been for several weeks.
Another point is that at times my gut feels not quite right. It’s almost like being glutened and it feels as though something not too nice is upsetting my digestion. In some ways, it’s something that may have plagued me for years. So do histimines created by the pollen upset your digestion system? Especially, if you’re a coeliac.
I have a feeling that the only solution is to take a gluten free cruise.
The Anonymous Widower 
The trapped nerve needs to be sorted out, organise physio straight away. I wish I had! I will now remove my “bossy head” and ask if you could be breathing in wheat pollen. I have no idea at all about the answer. The question just crossed my mind.
The reason for more aches and pain is Spring is often that we suddenly do more – I know you walk everywhere, but in the warm spring sun you probably walk further than in nasty cold wintery days. The aches and pains will settle in due course when your body is used to doing more. The pollen could have been low because the weather was wetter, I dont know what the weather in London had been like.
Comment by liz | July 12, 2011 |
My phsio is on the case and if the doctor hadn’t gone for an MRI scan, then he would have recommended that I see an orthopaedic surgeon.
The pollen in the south east has been bad this year. My racehorse trainer has had horses go down with hay fever this year and even AllergyUK have told me they’ve had calls from horse owners. As I said the cruise is probably the only cure.
Comment by AnonW | July 12, 2011 |