Hello, and "Thank's" to everyone who has taken a moment to read my acute worry and try to help with information, self-experience, friend of a friend.....
I am a 44 year old female and I am scared to death and have no one to talk to.
For the past 6 months or so, I have been experiencing NUMBNESS in the back of my head while I am sleeping. I have also expericed the numbnessin my handsor fingers as well. I am a mother a beautiful daughter through adopting and she will be 7 on Fathers Day. EACH OTHER IS ALL WE HAVE PLEASE someone help.

Hello, and welcome to NT! This is such a great place with many friendly, caring, and helpful people.

We're so glad you found us!

Here is a link to maybe help get you started:

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum2.html

I see that Azoyizes has given you the link to our Rare Conditions Forum.

I understand your fear as I have had numbness off and on in my skull. I have no idea what it is and am too afraid to ask my doctor what it might be. (I have no children so it's just me to worry about)

I can only suggest that you may want to talk to you family/primary doctor about this.... he/she may have an idea what is going on or maybe they can refer you to the right doctor.

I sincerely wish you the best and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to your daughter!

Abbie

hi im new here ,i too have had some numbness in the top of my head and i get numb patches all over , i have peripheral neuropathy caused by pernicious anemia , the best thing to do is speak with your gp because if your like me you will just worry , i hope you find some good advice here and take care .

I have never had headaches & numbness until Jan 2010 and it started with a clicking noise in my head. Then, It was a continuous pain in a specific place in my head, a pressure pain like someone had their fist inside my head pushing to the top of my head, mine on the left top.I also experienced numbness in the left side of my face. I was diagnosed with Chiari I Malformation 11/2010. I then had a MRI with a study of the flow of Spinal Fluid and that is when I was also diagnosed with Arnold's Chiari 11/2010. My Chiari was causing my spinal fluid not to flow and causing the pressure in my head (Arnold's Chiari) Immediately 11/2010 they put a shunt in my head to let the fluid flow instead of being trapped in my head (immediate relief). It took almost a year to get the correct diagnosis and a different doctor to diagnosis it correctly. The shunt relieved the pressure pain but did not relieve all my symptons. Pain when I sneezed, coughed, or gagged. That was from the Chiari where my "brain tonsils" were pushed through the opening in the base of my skull due to my skull being too small for my brain. I then had Chiari decompression surgery 2/2011 where they make the opening @ base of skull larger and removed a part of my vertebrae to give my brain more room. This surgery helped with the remaining pain I was experiencing. I still have to have the shunt because the aquaducts that allow flow are small and have evidently gotten smaller with age. I was 48 when all this began. It usually effects people earlier since it's a congenital condition (born with it). The doctors have o idea why it affected me at such late age since I don't remember any injury to my head. Hope this information is useful.

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Happy to see you have come to be with us. As you can tell we have a great number of friends here to assist you. Just let us know if we can be of any help. Our shoulders are here for support in many ways.

Looking forward to seeing you around. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

Darlene