Wow, good timing Ron, I woke up at about 5:30 or 6 this morning and felt like I was boiling from the insides out and was drenched in sweat, my wife turned me not sure what was going on, at around 6:45, it's was'nt getting any better..so my wife got up to get ready for work and saw my overnight cath bag was hanging down almost to the floor pulling on my cath area, well she hooked it back up to a rail on the bed and drained the urine..then right after that everything started to return to normal and all the sweating and dysreflexia stopped. Sometimes it can just be some simple thing gone wrong, dysreflexia can be a scary thing but I guess it's our quad body trying to let us know things are not right. Dan H.**
On Tuesday, July 1, 2014 11:32 PM, RONALD L PRACHT <[email protected]> wrote: I was talking to a member on the list and wanted to make every quad aware of the danger of disreflexia. If you guys ever get a surgery where you are put out make sure you tell the surgeon that your blood pressure is going to spike and make them read the definition of disreflexia. Also make the person with you in the hospital aware as well. So many people in the medical field dismiss this as nothing but it can kill you very quickly. Even if they don't believe you they will have blood pressure meds ready then to help when it happens. Some will think you are crazy but tell them anyway. Ron
