1st time here. I desperately need help as to why I go numb and loss bodily function and become extremely dizzy if I don't have constant heat on me when I sit or lay down (not moving) I have spinal problems but never was able to get MRI so no specific diagnosis and now have no medical.
I have problems from head to toe including pain and numbness. Some numbness is constant. At times without warning can lose most of feeling in either left or right foot.
Some dizziness is constant.
This has been ongoing and worsening for over 20 yrs.
In 2008 my doctor gave in to insurance company and stop expensive cream medicine that helped reduce pain and inflammation. They didn't want to keep providing for a chronic condition. I was so disgusted I haven't asked for any medication since and have been on my own.
My main help has been heat therapy. Direct heat on me. I had a very bad flu in 2013 that kept worsening and lasted all winter. This was the final straw that I never recovered from. I became very cold and numb without excessive amounts of hear directed at me when not in motion.
As summer heatwave hit I naturally reduced the heat. This caused a severe reaction that lasted 6 days of dizziness, nauseous, vomiting, unable to eat, extreme pain, loss of mental ability to think.
I'm between a hard place and a rock. We are now beginning 100s heatwave. My body can not handle any air conditioning (it thinks I am trying to freeze myself) AND it still wants heat. Yesterday I turned off heat during day and within an hour the severe dizziness was starting back up. Took hours of heat to reduce dizziness. I can't sit for long without severe spasms in neck and spine. I feel like I'm living in a science fiction nightmare.
Sorry for the long explanation.