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Originally Posted by Wittesea
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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Hi Witt,
Is it Paresthesia?
Two and a half years ago I got this on my face around 9:00 at night while driving home from work. When it got worse instead of better I went to Urgent Care to rule out anythiing acute.
My neuro sent me for an EEG and an MRI. They were normal.
So then I started looking at my meds.
Benzos can do this. So can other meds.
I used to get this all over my body -- it would start on face and spread from ears to toes.
It came back a couple nights ago because of Calcium supplements reacting to Verapamil. The two don't mix well.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: definition of paresthesia
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/p...aresthesia.htm
Wikipedia says that Fibromyalgia can cause it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paresthesia
Check your meds again. Do a google search with paresthesia and each med separately and you will see that a med might come up. Two of mine do.
Mari
Is it the whole of your forehead or just the left side?