Suggest Treatment For Adhesive Arachnoiditis
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I read your question carefully and I am sorry about your condition. Adhesive arachnoiditis can unfortunately be very difficult and frustrating to treat representing a challenge for any doctor.
The hot flashes and night sweats that you report are not so much a disorder of the central thermostat rather than due to involvement of the autonomic nervous system which regulates sweating and temperature, which impairment can lead to intolerance to heat, increased sweating or in other cases actually reduced sweating.
As I said it is difficult to treat but anticholinergic drugs can be tried like amitriptyline and glycopyrrolate. Amitriptyline can also be useful for your chronic pains for which it is commonly indicated.
While I make this recommendation for arachnoiditis related autonomous dysfunction I would like to ask also whether menopause has also been considered. I suppose you or your doctors must have thought of that since it's so common, but in case you haven't that possibility should be considered at your age as it is one of the most common consequences of menopause which could be helped by substitute hormonal treatment or antidepressants.
I remain at your disposal for further questions.
Thank you.
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Thank you for your feedback XXXX. It's nice to see that you can laugh about it, I understand how difficult it must be. I sincerely hope you will get better soon.