I'm writing this on behalf of my mom - I'm trying to be a proactive daughter and advocate for my mom to find out some answers.

My mom is a relitviely healthy 52 year old woman. She teaches health and wellness classes to seniors and teaches her own fitness (Zumba) classes 3x a week.

On Saturday (12/08/19) my mom was traveling aroudn the city in San Francisco. She said that she got back on the bullet train and started to feel a pain/ache right under her shoulder blade. She said very shorlty after, she started to feel pins and needles go down her side/stomach area and then down into her right hip and thigh. Throughout the night the pins and needles moved down all the way to her toes. And by Sunday morning (12/09/19) it was starting in her left side. She traveled home to Florida on Sunday and by the time I picked her up from the airport she was having difficulty walking and was numb in both legs.

She describes the numbness as the same sensation if your foot falls asleep from sitting on it. But she's experiacing that pins and neededs sensesion constantly - and it goes from right under her breasts down to her toes. Her entire lower abdomen, butt, and both legs - all pins and needles 24/7.

She's admitted to the hospital right now - but every test that keeps coming back is "normal". They've already done an upper and lower spinal MRI, a brain MRI, and a lumbar puncture.

Lumbar puncture didn't reviel any eleovated protein levels or anyting that was out of the ordinary. The MRI's that have been done do not show and disc hernications, bulges...just some minor arthirius and slight decompression. The doctors are saying nothing that they see to date would be significant enough to result in this type/amount of numbness.

I'm racking my brain and reading everything I can to come up with ideas on what else we can test for. What else should we be looking for? I want to be proactive and bring ideas to the table to try and find the source of this.

If anyone has had anything similar in the past, or even just has some ideas for things I could research more - I'd appreciate it so much.

- a concerned daughter