Hi all,

this is my first post so let me quickly first introduce myself. I am an man of 38 years old living in France. I am an engineer in computer science.

since I was 30 years old I started to have cervical arthritis and on the lower back. I got issues with a lot of numbesses and got solved by a chiropractor.

Now the problem of numbnesses came back on last december with pain and numbnesses in little fingers and in feet.

Few weeks ago I started methyl-b12 to get improvement and I was getting better but then it came back during last weekend, so this morning I tried to get 1mg of methyl-b12 on empty stomac and now my hands have numbnesses all the time.

What do you think?

Hello, there. Welcome to NeuroTalk.

You really need to get some blood tests to see where you are.

Have a B12 done, and also a Vitamin D.
Low D impacts calcium metabolism, and can cause nerves to misfire and create paresthesias.
Here is the new medical video on Vit D.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ-qekFoi-o

If you don't know what is going on, you really cannot fix it.

It would be a good idea to get some glucose testing as well.
Fasting glucose, and fasting insulin, and HbA1C will tell if you are getting
low blood sugar as in pre-diabetes, or are beginning to get typeII.

Have you taken any medicines recently, or currently? Some drugs cause PN.

Arthritis is an inflammatory condition, and as a rule does not go away. Manipulation of the spine can improve pressure on nerve roots, but if spurs are growing or discs degrading, chiropractic adjustments may no longer work. So you need to get xrays, or MRIs to see what is really going on there.

Thank you for your advices. I am goign to see a neurologist to find out the root cause of my numbness but I think it is the C8 nerve root...

Bonjour. I don't know much more French than that, but I've been to your very lovely country. =)

That's great you are going to a neurologist. My neurologist ordered my Vitamin D levels. I am very deficient and hope to find improvement in the weeks to come with my strange pains and symptoms. I recommend getting your levels checked, just as Mrs. D said. Especially with the lack of sun in France, coming out of winter.

All the best!

Cher

Thank for your advice, I am going to do a EMG and I am not sure if the neurologist will ask me to do a blood work as in France they tend to give medics and not to check if it is nutrition that can cause the issue.

I am living in south of France, so we have a lot of sun but this week I read in the news that even in California with a lot of sun, most people have a low level. It was a big surprise for me.

Hi all,

The EMG has not showed a lot... :-( I have therefore started benfotiamine and methylcobalamine but now my feets are tingling. Does anyone experieced this after starting this supplements?

When nerves wake up from a numb state, they tend to tingle.

Some people report this during improvement phases.

When my feet woke up after I started thyroid hormone treatment for hypothyroid issues, they tingled quite a bit. It took about a year for that to stop.

A year!!!! my god.... were you able to sleep? for me last night it interrupted my sleep a lot...

Well, my feet were in total agony from pain, which then over time became numb. Once they were numb it was an improvement IMO.

Finally my thyroid was diagnosed (it was a hidden defect which required a radioactive scan) and I was given the hormone to repair myself. That is when I discovered how numb I really was!

I stood all day in my job back then (I was about 30 and it was before my son was born), so I attributed my sore feet to the job.

The tingling wasn't too bad. Noticeable, but not really painful.
It takes time for hypothyroid symptoms to go away.

Oh I see... my tinglings are like feeling the blood circulating in veins, is it what tingling mean (sorry I am french so my perception might be wrongly explained)?