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Hello,

My mother recently had a hypertensive crisis, diagnosed as heart attack and
mini-stroke.  Her symptoms were:

-Headache night before
-Continuing headache next morning, plus dizziness, nausea, chest pain, and
seizure-like cramping of the right (yes) arm and neck.
– When the ambulance arrived, her blood pressure was 220/190; she was in
hypertensive crisis.
– When they gave her meds to relieve blood pressure, she
was basically fine, and went to the hospital.
– Her blood levels were all fine except for minor increase in muscle enzymes.

At hospital, they examined old MRI (from Carotid artery surgery 6 months ago)
and compared to new MRI and discovered 2 new very small brain infarcts
indicating mini-stroke.  They think the strokes came as a result of the
attack, i.e., that they were not the cause of the hypertensive crisis.  They
then did an angiogram, and found a minor constriction in only one vein leading
to a small chamber.  (I’m not saying this quite right, but it was almost
undetectable, because they removed the angiogram equipment and saw the
constriction on photos and went back in next day to angioplasty that one
spot.)  Anyway, the cardiologist told my dad that that constriction probably
did not cause the hypertensive crisis.

Now.  Here’s the problem.  So we’ve learned my mom has a healthy heart, no
detectable tissue death, and no arterial constrictions, and 2 ministroke spots
caused by the hypertensive crisis … but we don’t know what caused the
hypertensive crisis.

Here’s the question:

What else can cause a hypertensive crisis besides heart attack and stroke?  

My dad will be taking her to endocrinologist, next.  She’s been very cranky
since the carotid surgery – is this a clue?  Is she terrified of things to
come and stressed out by that?  Could she be exhausted by getting up and back
in the swing right after the carotid surgery?  Also, her sister died one month
after the carotid surgery, and I’m not sure she’s fully grieved…

Any and all comments will be most appreciated.  Please e-mail.

Sincerely,

Pat

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Hello,

I am posting this on behalf of a friend who does not have access to the
net.

            Need Medical Advice Desperately  !!!
            ====================================

      My body’s cell oxidation function has been damaged by Chinese Herbs.
  Recently I found out that I could not have any kind of food that
  contains anti-oxidant such as vitamine C or vitamine E because the
  reaction on my body is exactly the same as the herb does.  This discovery
  shows that those herbs are also anti-oxidants which is much stronger
  than vitamine C.

      I need help to answer the following questions:

  1. Is there any organization or Doctor can help me or cure me ?

  2. By what kind of chemical reaction the anti-oxidant can reduce
     the cell oxidation function ?

  3. How can we enhance the body’s cell oxidation function ?  Is there
     any drug or food I can take ?

  4. Where can I find related articles or references ?

  History:

      My eyes felt burning pain and went to see my eye Doctor on January 1994.
  After examination, he told me my eyes are OK and he cound not find the reason
  causing eye burning pain.  

      So I went to see Chinese herb Doctors and they told me the eye burning pain
  was due to my liver oxidation function was too strong.  They gave me some herbs
  to take.  After I tried herbs, my eye burning pain did stop.  However, after one
  and half month, I felt my liver and kidney function had been reduced a lot.
  I could never recover since then and became weaker and weaker.

  Symptoms:  (became more obvious since Oct. 1994)

  1. I can not eat any food which contains vitamine C because the reaction on
     my body will be exactly the same as those Chinese herbs did to my body.
     The reaction was all my organs such as liver, kidney, heart, lung etc.
     becamd weaker.  I would feel cold, immunization system went down, difficulty
     to breath, my heart beating was going to stop, less urine produced etc.

  2. After I ate food, I felt difficult in breathing gradually, difficult to
     move my hands, arms and legs.  I could not even stand up.  The more food
     I had, the worse the situation was.

  3. a.
       My Urine production speed is much slower that before, about 80% reduction.
     b.
       I can not drink over 5 oz water at one time.  My waste area would feel
       pain and had even less urine amount produced.
     c.
       I can not talk due to lack of energy.  If I talked, I would have less
       amount of urine generated.

  4. I can only eat a little sugar, salt, protein and oil.

  5. USRDA 50% Copper = 1 mg would make my urine amount even less and waste area
     would feel very sore and tired.

  6. I can not go nearbt hot stove.  My eye would immediately (about 2 seconds)
     feel burning pain if I did.                      

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