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I don't think the anxiety itself causes PN....I think the change in breathing that accompanies the stress/anxiety is the culprit.

When you change your breathing, you can develop a mild acidosis which then causes paresthesias in the periphery.

Some people find meditation and yoga helpful for PN, and I think it is the learning of better breathing techiques that helps. If you have sleep apnea, you may get numbness during sleep.

Here are 60 causes of paresthesias of the arm...Hyperventilation is #29:
http://symptoms.wrongdiagnosis.com/c...thesia-all.htm

Notice low calcium and low B6 are listed as well.

I'd get that Vit D checked. If you are low, you won't be absorbing calcium from your diet.... Mark here had burning pain in his back/arms and when he corrected his Vit D, he had improvement.

You can search his posts.
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...121#post293121

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Originally Posted by ejcronje (Post 586011)

Hey Kiwiboy

It sounds as if we could have been related wrt all our symptoms! I'm 32 and my symptoms have been going on for about 3 years now. I went through the whole range of tests, seeing specialist etc. Nothing helped. I had whole body burning and nobody could give me an answer. Then I went to see a physician nearby my home (he was a specialist physician). He went through my results and basically said I had "some" kind of neuropathic pain, but told me that it would be very unlikely that they would find out what the cause would be. (Since all my tests came back normal). He prescribed 50mg of amytreptilene and 0.5mg of clonazepam. Within a few days I could feel relief!!! The clonazepam worked very quickly and the elavil took about a month. Now I barely have any burning except if I am under severe stress.

Please speak to your doctor about these meds and give it a try. I couldn't take any other anti-depressants cause they made the burning worse.

Thank you for that, I guess in time I will have to do *something*. I suppose everyone goes through this stage of grief/acceptance/denial and all the other emotions. At our age it's a pretty rough thing to accept - chronic pain/discomfort etc and hard for others to understand, as they can't see it.

Obviously I'm still stuck in this 'trying to figure it out' stage, which may just go round in circles for ever. The only reason I have been reluctant to start any meds for the pain is so I can still feel exactly what is going on and tell if it's getting better or worse. And also the side effects from the drugs, especially Benzodiazepines, concern me. Especially as I already have lower GI issues, I don't want to start any problems with my bowel on top of this.
Have you ever tried coming off your meds after all this time to see if you are making any sort of recovery? Did I read this happened to you after a colonoscopy or some type of medical procedure? How long did it take for your symptoms to reach a plateau ? Thanks again. Would be great to speak to you some more.

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Originally Posted by mrsD (Post 586023)

I'd get that Vit D checked. If you are low, you won't be absorbing calcium from your diet.... Mark here had burning pain in his back/arms and when he corrected his Vit D, he had improvement.

Thanks again MrsD, The Vitamin D is one of the things I have not had checked. Once I find myself a new doctor, I'll take that test.