Tingling - The path to recovery

[Francy66]

I'm beginning to have problems in opening the forum and also writing is very slow. What about starting the third chapter? Coriecl, give your contribution!

[cup12]

Is everybody pretty confident that this is only temporary?? I'm worried.

[gen49]

PCP - Primary Care Physician

[coriecl]

Francy and I have both recommended sedatives to sleep through the night. It definitely helped us both; it's hard for your body to repair itself if it doesn't get enough rest.

I would definitely recommend Vitamin b12 sublingual tablet, as well as, a Vitamin B complex. My Jan 15th posting: I wrote down what my naturopathic doctor recommended to me. If you decide to do the same regime take the PM doses with dinner or else it might energize you too much to sleep. The nutrients brought my energy and mood up.

On Tingling - Chapter Two, I explain how a friend of mine had the same symptoms as us but the one neurologist she saw said she had a "virus". She tingled off and on for 10 months but it eventually went away. This was 5 years ago so don't give up hope thinking that this is permanent. It just means you need to take optimum care of yourself and seek out therapies or ways to help yourself heal. Some people are seeing acupuncturists, chiropractors, or massage therapists, others are practicing relaxation or yoga, some are seeing holistic/naturopath doctors, most are taking nutritional supplements and eating healthy diets.

Other people have mentioned bubbles or hot-spots under the skin. My friend had the same thing too. I've read that it's nerves repairing itself...which is a good thing!!! I had digestion problems in the beginning but I did force myself to eat fruit, vegetables and soup and my appetite did come back. I also read that Cathy does juicing.

I keep reading about PCPs. Can you tell me what that is? I'm assuming it's a medical doctor but I'm not familiar with the acronym.

[cup12]

So I just got back from my PCP. A complete waste of time! She just sat there and stared at me as I bawled my eyes out and told me she has never heard of such a thing. I even printed out some posts from this forum to show her to prove that others were experiencing the same thing. She told me there was nothing she could do and to go back to the neurologist and she would refund me my 20$ copay...how thoughtful.  I went to the health store and got a cal/mag supplement along with a gentle detox...hope it helps!!

[gen49]

This is the perfect venue to vent all of your feelings and frustrations because we have all been there.  Finding this forum helped me a lot.  Any time you post a message, know that someone is listening who has experienced the same or similar things. If you take time to read all of the posts, you will find it informative even though we are all different. I had to look for a new PCP as well.  The one who highly recommended I get the shot in the first place denied it was the vaccine and left the scene.

[jc77718]

cup12: I had the shot on Oct. 26th and still having twitching and tingling. It has got alot better though. Just hang in there because people have been on here for awhile and alot are completely recovered it just takes awhile. And remember everyone is different I am sure size and immune system all plays a part in this. Just to let you know there is another discussion called tingling swine flu vaccine chapter 2. If you click on my name you can click on chap. 2 and it will take you there. It has more people about where you are at with this point of the reaction. One thing that I always try to remember is the word TEMPORARY! Because this reaction is temporary. That is proven with all the people that have gotten over it. Take care, Julie