Please check blood pressures for Autonomic Dysrelexia during periods of sweating, even if no other symptoms. There is a condition called "Silent Autonomic Dysreflexia" when no symptoms occur. Although, sweating would be a symptom and therefore not true "silent". When I was a SCI fellow at Kessler we did a study on silent AD during bowel programs. We took blood pressure the entire time during the bowel program. We were surprised how many people had silent autonomic dysreflexia during bowel programs. So, we identified that it happened and was not rare. We did not conclude what to do. Questions remained: Does this need to be pretreated before the program?
Here is a link to the study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12474185 Hope this helps. Glen House, C7 complete 23 yrs On Nov 9, 2012, at 7:59 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Based on those symptoms.. what has your doctors advised? > Best Wishes > > In a message dated 11/9/2012 1:25:01 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > I've been having sweating issues for like 12 months now. Not sure if it's a > bowel or bladder issues, but I assume it's one of them. Nothing else makes me > sweat like this. At first I thought it was my SP incision. It was bloody and > "prouding' (skin folding back on itself.) The sweating starts when I sit all > the way up. I thought having my abdomen fold right on that area was the > problem. But it has heeled up and it hasn't stopped the sweating. It really > got bad this week and this might be from having harder stool. That can cause > it too. But that's been fine for months and still the sweating. I know my > stool is not formed together well. I've been trying fiber drinks, but so far > no help. Anyone have issues with their intestines cramping and causing > sweating for no known reason? Sometimes it feels like I'm going, but nothing > is there. Gas can cause this in me and any sweating from a bladder issue will > cause gas in me. So I just can't find the cause, because any sweating bowel > or bladder causes the same feeling. I had my bladder scoped months ago and > everything was fine, but I'm going to ask for another one. I also had a > colonoscopy around that time and was fine. Though I don't want that again. > > One thing about my SP, sometimes I get a very bad stabbing pain in my > abdomen, like double over pain. Can be stool, gas, but sometimes it's my > cath. It will be draining fine, move fine, but changing it and the pain goes > away. Like it's in a sore spot. Anyone else have these issues? > > I just don't know why for many months I can only sit about 80% of the way > up, or I start pouring sweat. When everything else looks fine. > > Thanks, Greg >
