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Originally Posted by glenntaj
--did you get copies of your test results that you can post to us, to give the amateur diagnosticians (who are very good, actually) some more to go on?
I am particularly interested in what your MRI's have to say--did they do brain and cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine? Reason I ask is that given the presentation and timing of the symptoms you've related, my initial suspicion would be some form of central nervous system impingment or demyelinating disease. The problem, of curse, is that one can have the exact same symptoms from central nervous system disruptions as from peripheral nervous system disruptions; it's why one generally is in for a long round of testing to try to pinpoint the causes of neural symptoms.
I, too, have not seen a direct correlation between smoking and neural symptoms (though there's adequate correlation between smoking and a whole lot of other bodily dysfunction), But, if your symptoms worsen with smoking or drinking, there is an implication that there is a vascular/circulatory componet to what's going on with you, and any survey should include tests for circulation as well as vasculitic autoimmune disease.
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Hi there I had an MRI of the brain and cervical spine and they were fine. I would really like the rest of my spine checked because of the lower back pain that I have but I don't want to tell the neurologist how to do his job...
Like I say smoking does make the symptoms worse, about 10 days ago I smoked about 10 ciggarettes and in the evening the pins and needles in my feet were much much worse and my face was more numb and I also started getting really weird sensations around the joints in my hands/hips/ankles/lower spine it wasn't pain ,it almost felt kind of ticklish,it made me want to squirm,very hard to explain.
Alcohol also makes it worse, I have never been a heavy drinker nor a really heavy smoker but at this rate I am going to have to give up smoking (have already stopped drinking, I have had 3 drinks since april and each time the PN got worse so stopped altogether now), although im so stressed at the moment that I keep getting the urge to smoke, its a catch 22 situation...