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So, I noticed the tingling in my hand and foot were very related to the kind of food I was eating. The last week or so, I've cut tomatoes and onions from my diet, and I've seen a big improvement on the tingling front.
Not so much change on the swollen foot or hand department, but I'm starting to wonder if the "chronic infection" at the base of my first root canal (not the recent one, the one just behind it) may have started with the first tooth filling, which came just before my foot began feeling swollen.
It would be nice to have it all related, to be tied up in a bow.
Still. In the meantime, I have to live in my body.
Today, I saw a dietician about starting an elimination diet - basically testing my food chemical sensitivity. It's a temporary measure, just to tide me over the period while we're working out what's happening with the tooth and the gum infection.
I'm probably going the 'moderate' option. However, even that's pretty restrictive - basically everything with flavour and everything I've been using for flavour is out. But it should clear my system of the food chemicals which have been causing the tingling, and I need that space so long as I'm coping with the tooth and the hand and the foot.
In a moment of terrible irony, those four weeks after the RC when I was more or less on ibuprofen around the clock? That may have contributed to the salicylate intolerance. So, tingling if I did and nerve pain if I didn't. Joy.
I'm not taking any medication right now; mostly it's down to a throbbing/swollen sensation in the upper jaw above the teeth, occasional tingling in the RH/RF, and some proto-headaches occasionally threatening my attention span.
So one of my goals this weekend is working out how to prepare things I can eat without messing up my body.
Not so much change on the swollen foot or hand department, but I'm starting to wonder if the "chronic infection" at the base of my first root canal (not the recent one, the one just behind it) may have started with the first tooth filling, which came just before my foot began feeling swollen.
It would be nice to have it all related, to be tied up in a bow.
Still. In the meantime, I have to live in my body.
Today, I saw a dietician about starting an elimination diet - basically testing my food chemical sensitivity. It's a temporary measure, just to tide me over the period while we're working out what's happening with the tooth and the gum infection.
I'm probably going the 'moderate' option. However, even that's pretty restrictive - basically everything with flavour and everything I've been using for flavour is out. But it should clear my system of the food chemicals which have been causing the tingling, and I need that space so long as I'm coping with the tooth and the hand and the foot.
In a moment of terrible irony, those four weeks after the RC when I was more or less on ibuprofen around the clock? That may have contributed to the salicylate intolerance. So, tingling if I did and nerve pain if I didn't. Joy.
I'm not taking any medication right now; mostly it's down to a throbbing/swollen sensation in the upper jaw above the teeth, occasional tingling in the RH/RF, and some proto-headaches occasionally threatening my attention span.
So one of my goals this weekend is working out how to prepare things I can eat without messing up my body.
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