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Old 10-10-2006, 11:01 PM
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Default facial numbness and tingling?

I don't know where else to post this, but I'm hoping someone here has some ideas for me....

My face goes numb and tingly and it makes my skin feel heavy and my left eye feels like it's wiggling. It's weird. It makes my face feel frozen, but it doesn't look frozen or different.

My ability to use my facial muscles doesn't seem any different when it happens (but it could be slight and I don't notice?)

It's been happening for a while, and it just keeps getting worse and it happens more often.

I had an MRI of the head/neck which was normal.

My medications have been ruled out as a cause.

My current diagnoses -
Anxiety, fibromyalgia, undifferentiated connective tissue disease, raynauds, sicca syndrome, and I'm sure I am forgetting something...


So any ideas as to what can cause facial numbness/tingling? It's mostly confined to my forehead and the left side of my face, but it occasionally wanders to the left side of my neck as well.

It's starting to really scare me, mostly because I don't know what is causing it, and my doctors seem stumped as well.
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