Am a NYSC batch B, stream 1, 2018 corp member.

I was in NYSC permanent orientation camp Mangu, Plateau State for NYSC orientation exercise. After eating launch that was served in camp on the 12-August-2018 I started having severe heartburn, painful urination, abdominal discomfort and also felt like fainting. I took plenty of water that day and went to bed. I woke up the next day which was the day of the camp closing ceremony feeling much worse so I rushed to the camp clinic. I was given ciprofloxacin and metronidazole tablets by a doctor who was a corp member. No lab test was done to ascertain the cause of my problem. I took the tablets but didn't feel better.

As time went on my situation got worse and I struggled to walk so I decided to leave the camp and find a medical facility outside where I could receive proper treatment. When I got to the gate of the camp I was stopped by a police man. He told me I was not allowed to leave the camp until the closing ceremony was over. I told him about my health issue and that I wanted to find a medical facility outside the camp where I could get proper treatment but he still refused to let me leave and insisted that I should use the camp clinic instead. I went back to the camp clinic and there I was given an injection on the right thigh by a doctor who was a corp member.

In the previous days in camp I applied for relocation. It was not granted so I went to pursue the matter. I returned to the camp clinic later to complain that my situation was not improving but I was Ignored. I sat in the consulting room and waited but the doctors acted as if no body was sitting there. I didn't even collect my posting letter that day because I was busy pursuing my health issue. I returned home (to Abuja) that day.

Two weeks later I started having severe burning pain in the leg that was injected. The leg felt very cold but was not cold to the touch. Immediately the pain started I knew it was the injection I received at the NYSC camp that caused it. The pain is very severe in the foot and also in the thigh that was injected. The burning pain has subsequently spread to all parts of my body. I feel it all over my head and my face and its causing me constant headache. The burning pain is the type you have after very hot water pours on your skin. I also have tingling (sensation of being stabbed with pins and needles) in my hands and right foot. My right leg has become very tender to the touch making walking, sitting, and lying with the leg touching a surface very painful.

Recently my right foot has started to go numb on one side. Whenever the pain is very severe I start thinking of ways to take my life. I have been to different hospitals and also took medication but no improvement. The pain is only worsening. I wish for death everyday but death is not coming. I have informed the NYSC Zonal inspector and also LGI (Local Government Inspector) in my place of primary assignment about my situation and also discussed with my LGI in January 2019 about them summoning the corp member doctors who were with us in camp so I could identify the one who injected me and get information about what he injected me but he told me that it will be difficult or almost impossible to do that. I don't know what to do now.

Before all this happened I was planning to venture into business full time. These days I can't even concentrate when performing activities such a studying, thinking, and reflecting because of pain and constant headache. Am i pain 24/7. The best I do when the pain is at peak is manage to sleep. I have lost interest in everything including life. Has any one reading this been in a similar situation or know what I can do now to get out of this situation. I'd like to get your inputs..
Death looks more attractive to me everyday. It seems like the best option available now. I never knew all my dreams and aspirations would be shattered by just one injection shot.

Waiting for your replies.

Thanks.

Chai! Just imagine the kind of doctors MBBS gave certification. I heard the system is so corrupt that once you can pay heavily for the cert, it would be handed to you, while those who know their onion in Medicine are failed yearly. Isn't it unprofessional to give a patient drugs/injection without a diagnosis of what's wrong with the person? You sef played with your life.

damn. a dude i know got his leg paralyzed by been injected wrongly.

Those camp doctors know nothing, I wonder what's d purpose of their housemanship.

Seriously I was sick wen I was in camp, only for me to get to d clinic and was given some trash as drug. I didn't take d drugs tho, knowing fully well d drug had nothing to do with my condition at that moment, just managed till I got back home.

Some nearly died in camp den. Honestly government need to look into this aspect, experienced doctors sud always be sent to camp, those guys can just be assisting them.

I don't even know d importance of the Nysc till now.

Op, please go to a government hospital, if possible, let it be a teaching hospital where we have specialists. I'm sure u wud get solution to it if u can do this. Act fast please.

Oh no!

Death looks more attractive to me everyday. It seems like the best option available now. I never knew all my dreams and aspirations would be shattered by just one injection shot.

Please don't kill yourself.
Stop thinking about taking your life.

The best way to help yourself is to get on the first bus tomorrow and go to a hospital (not all these clinic!).

I don't think you are reacting to whatever he injected you with because the tinkling sensation & inflammatory pain is a known symptom of neural damage. It make sense considering the fact you experience all this on your right leg (on the limb you were injected?).

What is puzzling though is the fact that you are experiencing the same symptoms on your right hand.

Anyway, Don't give up on life. Seek professional help.

SageMK:



Please don't kill yourself.
Stop thinking about taking your life.

The best way to help yourself is to get on the first bus tomorrow and go to a hospital (not all these clinic!).

I don't think you are reacting to whatever he injected you with because the tinkling sensation & inflammatory pain is a known symptom of neural damage. It make sense considering the fact you experience all this on your right leg (on the limb you were injected?).

What is puzzling though is the fact that you are experiencing the same symptoms on your right hand.

Anyway, Don't give up on life. Seek professional help.

The burning pain started in the thigh that was injected (the right thigh) two weeks after I received that injection then it moved down the foot. I started having cold sensations in my back later which felt very uncomfortable. After some time it moved up my neck then my head. Then the cold sensation turned into burning pain. This happened in less than three months. I first felt the tingling in my left hand when I woke up one night. Then I started having it more often in both hands and in the right foot.

Lay ur hand on the affected area and declare that it's healed. Dont ever think of suicide.

windhunter:

The burning pain started in the thigh that was injected (the right thigh) two weeks after I received that injection then it moved down the foot. I started having cold sensations in my back later which felt very uncomfortable. After some time it moved up my neck then my head. Then the cold sensation turned into burning pain. This happened in less than three months. I first felt the tingling in my left hand when I woke up one night. Then I started having it more often in both hands and in the right foot.

Burning sensation, cold sensation and tingling are all symptoms of neuropathy. These abnormal sensations collectively are called parathesia. Experiencing these all over your body is now a different case on its own. I don't see a way to explain or attribute it to that injection.

Maybe you've have an underlying disease.

Please visit a hospital. I hope you meet a good doctor that'll help you and ask the right questions. Good luck.

First the ciprofloxacin and metronidazole all have neuropathy as an adverse side effect trust me am telling you cause am a victim of what those drugs can do after just one dose ... you can search up Cipro on nairaland and see yourself .. probably you were given a fluroquinolone injection .. I will suggest you start taking magnesium and soak your legs in epsom salt mag to get them better absorbed into your skin you can bath with them too .. just my suggestion

OtunbaBlack:
First the ciprofloxacin and metronidazole all have neuropathy as an adverse side effect trust me am telling you cause am a victim of what those drugs can do after just one dose ... you can search up Cipro on nairaland and see yourself .. probably you were given a fluroquinolone injection .. I will suggest you start taking magnesium and soak your legs in epsom salt mag to get them better absorbed into your skin you can bath with them too .. just my suggestion

Enough of the suggestions. I know you mean well, but his case seem too serious to self-medicate. He needs to see a professional in a general hospital.

GrabHisBalls:
Enough of the suggestions. I know you mean well, but his case seem seriously to self-medicate. He needs to see a professional in a general hospital.

I agree with you dear.. please don’t grab my balls lol .. regards

OtunbaBlack:


I agree with you dear.. please don’t grab my balls lol .. regards

Lol.

Smoke some good stuff. Loud or Sk. Tell me how you feel after

Blood flow and neuroinflamation are implicated

We can help if invited.

Done.

Those NYSC doctors will use you for experiment, most doctors don't know what they're doing again, all they think of is money. Your only hope is to go to a good general hospital, don't allow any doctor without White hair to treat you. Speedy recovery

OtunbaBlack:
First the ciprofloxacin and metronidazole all have neuropathy as an adverse side effect trust me am telling you cause am a victim of what those drugs can do after just one dose ... you can search up Cipro on nairaland and see yourself .. probably you were given a fluroquinolone injection .. I will suggest you start taking magnesium and soak your legs in epsom salt mag to get them better absorbed into your skin you can bath with them too .. just my suggestion

Please where do I get the magnesium and epsom salt mag from ? How many miligrams of magnesium should I consume at once and how many times a day ? How much quantity of epsom salt mag should I add to how much quantity of water ? Did the antibiotic cause you neuropathy or something else?
Thanks for you reply.

windhunter:

Please where do I get the magnesium and epsom salt mag from ? How many miligrams of magnesium should I consume at once and how many times a day ? How much quantity of epsom salt mag should I add to how much quantity of water ? Did the antibiotic cause you neuropathy or something else?
Thanks for you reply.

I believe they sell it at the pharmacy .. the tab should be once a day the salt just put a bit in water and either bath or soak your legs in it.. o will prefer you use the salt rather than the tablet ... it’s better absorbed into your skin to help with your neuropathy rather than ingesting it

windhunter:
Am a NYSC batch B, stream 1, 2018 corp member.I was in NYSC permanent orientation camp Mangu, Plateau State for NYSC orientation exercise. After eating launch that was served in camp on the 12-August-2018 I started having severe heartburn, painful urination, abdominal discomfort and also felt like fainting. I took plenty of water that day and went to bed. I woke up the next day which was the day of the camp closing ceremony feeling much worse so I rushed to the camp clinic. I was given ciprofloxacin and metronidazole tablets by a doctor who was a corp member. No lab test was done to ascertain the cause of my problem. I took the tablets but didn't feel better. As time went on my situation got worse and I struggled to walk so I decided to leave the camp and find a medical facility outside where I could receive proper treatment. When I got to the gate of the camp I was stopped by a police man. He told me I was not allowed to leave the camp until the closing ceremony was over. I told him about my health issue and that I wanted to find a medical facility outside the camp where I could get proper treatment but he still refused to let me leave and insisted that I should use the camp clinic instead. I went back to the camp clinic and there I was given an injection on the right thigh by a doctor who was a corp member. In the previous days in camp I applied for relocation. It was not granted so I went to pursue the matter. I returned to the camp clinic later to complain that my situation was not improving but I was Ignored. I sat in the consulting room and waited but the doctors acted as if no body was sitting there. I didn't even collect my posting letter that day because I was busy pursuing my health issue. I returned home (to Abuja) that day. Two weeks later I started having severe burning pain in the leg that was injected. The leg felt very cold but was not cold to the touch. Immediately the pain started I knew it was the injection I received at the NYSC camp that caused it. The pain is very severe in the foot and also in the thigh that was injected. The burning pain has subsequently spread to all parts of my body. I feel it all over my head and my face and its causing me constant headache. The burning pain is the type you have after very hot water pours on your skin. I also have tingling (sensation of being stabbed with pins and needles) in my hands and right foot. My right leg has become very tender to the touch making walking, sitting, and lying with the leg touching a surface very painful. Recently my right foot has started to go numb on one side. Whenever the pain is very severe I start thinking of ways to take my life. I have been to different hospitals and also took medication but no improvement. The pain is only worsening. I wish for death everyday but death is not coming. I have informed the NYSC Zonal inspector and also LGI (Local Government Inspector) in my place of primary assignment about my situation and also discussed with my LGI in January 2019 about them summoning the corp member doctors who were with us in camp so I could identify the one who injected me and get information about what he injected me but he told me that it will be difficult or almost impossible to do that. I don't know what to do now. Before all this happened I was planning to venture into business full time. These days I can't even concentrate when performing activities such a studying, thinking, and reflecting because of pain and constant headache. Am i pain 24/7. The best I do when the pain is at peak is manage to sleep. I have lost interest in everything including life. Has any one reading this been in a similar situation or know what I can do now to get out of this situation. I'd like to get your inputs. Death looks more attractive to me everyday. It seems like the best option available now. I never knew all my dreams and aspirations would be shattered by just one injection shot. Waiting for your replies. Thanks.

Don't lose hope because as long as there's life, there's hope for change .

OtunbaBlack:


I believe they sell it at the pharmacy .. the tab should be once a day the salt just put a bit in water and either bath or soak your legs in it.. o will prefer you use the salt rather than the tablet ... it’s better absorbed into your skin to help with your neuropathy rather than ingesting it

I went to some pharmacies today to make inquiry about the epsom salt and magnesium tablets. I only saw one brand of epsom salt that comes in very small sachets. A sachet contains 25 grams of epsom salt magnesium sulphate. A sachet is sold for N100 but am not sure a sachet or even two will be enough for one time bath or soaking the legs. As for the tab I only saw one brand which was a combination of magnesium, calcium, and vitamin D. I needed some rest so I returned home. I will still go out tomorrow and search for a bigger bag of epsom salt and also see other brands of magnesium that are available.

Furiosa:
OP give us update please.

Lalasticlala Mydd44

I visited a hospital today and was prescribed Neurobion. Am skeptical about the drug because its similar to Renerve Plus which have taken. I will get the drug tomorrow and start taking it and see what will happen. However am still hoping to hear from people on this forum who have had the same or similar experice or understand my problem. Am waiting for everybody's contribution. I have also been doing some searches on the internet. What makes finding a solution on the internet difficult is that the NYSC camp clinic where I was given that injection has no medical records of treatments that were given to patients. I don't even know what I was injected.

windhunter:


I visited a hospital today and was prescribed Neurobion. Am skeptical about the drug because its similar to Renerve Plus which have taken. I will get the drug tomorrow and start taking it and see what will happen. However am still hoping to hear from people on this forum who have had the same or similar experice or understand my problem. Am waiting for everybody's contribution. I have also been doing some searches on the internet. What makes finding a solution on the internet difficult is that the NYSC camp clinic where I was given that injection has no medical records of treatments that were given to patients. I don't even know what I was injected.

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NYSC.

Hmmmm

Op, try the magnesium salt and take the neurovite.... It is well

It will be better if you seek professional help. The Nigerian health sector ehn, Hmn. May God have mercy.

Buhari sef

Quick recovery oo..

I'm so sorry about your conditions.

Doctors over to you.

This NYSC People are just stupid sometimes and act like illiterates. You didn't carry out test to ascertain the issue but you gave drugs to quell it.

I almost lost my year during my NYSC due to bad eye drop they gave me.

instead of taking drugs,while not try herbal mixture,who knows it might help!

Get a lawyer and Sue....u will win