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Old 04-05-2015, 10:19 PM
Dubinin Dubinin is offline
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Default How long until paresthesias resolve?

Hello, time to share my scary story, if I may. I have unilateral sole paresthesia and ulnar nerve related paresthesia (left side), 4 months after waking up to reality and not letting alcohol destroy my sense of self-reliance and physique anymore.

I am wondering how long how long until these paresthesias resolve? I have no frank weakness, so it seems that only the sensory nerves are affected for now. God willing.

This tingling was quite pronounced with sudden onset on the night of April 3 - tingling in left sole. 2 hours later, tingling in left hand - ulnar nerve (since smallest finger and the one next to it on LS affected). The hand tingling disappeared on certain postures with left forearm (rotation of left hand to palm up position and resting forearm in lap).

Minutes later, felt tingling around left corner of mouth for about 6 minutes, then the sensation fully disappeared. Right thumb vaguely felt tingly, but resolved very quickly. Right big toe felt tingly 3 hours after tingling in left sole commenced.

Hours after ulnar nerve impairment, left hand radial nerve involved - all of back of left hand tingling (pins/needles).

Immediately commenced 400mg vit B1 (@ 9.30PM, April 3). This in addition to vitamin regimen:


10,000iu vit A,
1500mg Magnesium
Vit B3
Vit B6 and B 12
Choline
Inositol
Vit C
Chewable calcium
2000iu Vit D


Midnight, April 3 -4: right toe sensation resolved; right hand again normal. Symptoms can be exacerbated by jiggling legs on points of toes from seated position (the things we do when we get paranoid, yes, yes...). Went to sleep and awoke 4 hours later, only mild paresthesia persistent on back of left hand.

No recurrence of right side paresthesias.

Personal/Drinking History:
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Discharged from Special Forces, 2011 (drank one shot about 5 times in my life before that time). SF taught me to drink. Was extremely fit, lean and - weighed in at 220 pounds.

Changes in muscle mass noticed Feb 2014, after binge session. When ceased drinking, physique returned to normal in 2 weeks.

Bodyweight down to 183 pounds from 220 by Aug 2014.

When ceased drinking for a month, body-weight returned very rapidly.

Relapsed into drinking (foolish, yes. I thought I could "manage" it and didnt see IT was managing me).

Insomnia October 25-31, 2014 lasted 5 days

Insomnia recurred and persisted thru Nov 1-5, 2014.

Cessation of alcohol: Nov 31, 2014.

Dec 2014 - Noticed after gym work that "pumps" were not as big. Due to less muscle mass, not as defined. Pumps and psychical appearance of upper body, arms seems to change on daily or weekly basis - with glimpses of past form. More fatty deposits noticed. (Diagnosed as myopathy - acute form overlaying chronic form. Told to give it 3 to 4 months to regain lean mass. Fat explained as "trapping radicals and toxins in body" by naturopath ...).

Dec 31 - Jan 2, night time onset of left leg sciatic nerve paresthesia - VERY mild sense of warmth in back of thigh; restless feet that night, chronic insomnia begins. Awake and feeling "wired" after only 3 or 4 hours sleep. Sitting at computer, warmth in leg, very very mild sense of tingling left sole.

Coerced myself into drinking 3 glasses of wine at birthday party Feb 20, 2015 - no change to insomnia. (GABA receptors affected).

Feb/Mar 2015 - tachycardia, sense of being very awake or hyperactive - resolved very quickly once commenced Magnesium and vitamin regimen detailed above (WITHOUT B1). This marked protracted withdrawal/recovery phase.

Feb 2015, two incidences. days apart, of awaking with left arm and hand tingling mildly, Resolved very quickly on getting out of bed and moving.

Insomnia regularly persistent until March, 2015 - commenced that above vitamin and mineral schedule.

Drank heavily from Dec 23, 2011 to Nov 27, 2014. Cessation on Nov 31, 2014. 3 wine relapse on Feb 15, 2015.

Currently, paresthesias are nowhere near as pronounced as they were on Apr 3. Better after light nap, seem to be worse on waking after deep sleep. Seems to change on an hourly basis, or less than that - tingling more definite some minutes; followed by an almost complete absence of tingling for other minutes.

I estimate from my records that I purchased some 212 bottles of slow death, and then drank them at a rate of better than one a week for almost 3 years at a median rate of 4.29 standard drinks per day. (Some days were double or triple that, with some rare months of abstinence). After such idiocy, if a few pins and needles is all I get, then I am more blessed than I pretty much deserve to be.

And you know... It's the roadblocks that we avoid, that could have made all the difference... my own examples include being called out by my dear lady on being drunk and pretending not to be (I kept it from her and the rest of the human race). (Thank God for her Sagittarian bluntness)... And bicycling home with a bottle and for noooo reason, (handlebars seemed to lock up on a STRAIGHT road) coming off, and breaking the bottle, and getting soaked in aldehyde stinking death.

There is no safe amount of alcohol. It would be classified as a class A substance these days, if it were recently developed.
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