Chills And Feeling Very Cold

[IceLizard]

Hi everyone,

I am having trouble with a new symptom and wonder if it could be part of dysautonomia. I had to drink Moviprep for a colonscopy last week and it caused me to feel very cold and have chills even in a hot room. I had to abort the procedure due to my reaction to it. The problem is that it has been over a week and they have not completely gone away. I have no abnormal pain or fever, just chills that travel throughout my body and the feeling of being very cold. Maybe the Moviprep was a trigger for a bodily reaction? I am not sure but I will ask my doctor tomorrow. Anyone else have anything like this?

[rubytuesday]

Hi, IceLizard.

I was just at my cardiac specialist in dysautonomia today (the one who inserted my pacemaker). I was describing incidents to him in that I have no fever (but I run low temps typically) but I abruptly feel really warm (not hot flash--I'm post menopausal and those were/are definitely different) followed by profound weakness, muddle-headedness and profuse sweating to the point sweat is dripping off of my hair, off of my face, my clothes drenched thru to the point of needing placed in the washer to cleanse out the sweat and not sit/mildew as soon as I am physically able, and requires showering to get all the sweat washed off of me once the teeth-chattering chilling subsides. He told me that in some of his patients that do not faint, these symptoms are their 'signs' of their blood pressures dropping. He said that in my case, had I not had the pacer, I would be out cold and not notice what is happening, but with the pacer and being upright and conscious, this is my body's response as the blood pools from the vasodilatation and the body/pacer struggle to get that blood pumping back up to the heart/brain. He had no doubt it was connected to my dysautonomia. I have so many sensitivities to medications, latex and environmental elements, and the specialists believes there is a link with the complex immune deficiency in these reactions. I didn't test positive for the mast cell reaction when I was all broken out with large red itchy weepy welts from latex. (But again with the immune system being compromised and now on gamma globulin, I've learned the blood tests are not always accurate).

I hope you find answers from your doctor tomorrow. More importantly, I hope you feel better and that it was just some fleeting virus or something passing quickly by.

Blessings.

ruby

[Raisin]

Hi IceLizard. I see on drugs.com that unusual cold and shivering are listed as side effects of Moviprep. But, that being said, I wouldn't think it would last that long? Good idea to check it out with the doc. They may know what exactly causes that side effect re electrolytes, interactions and/ or if it truly is a side effect or an interaction or something else altogether. Good luck! Let us know how it goes.