Hi,
sorry for the long post! I had a very weird injury that took place that my doctors don’t understand and I don’t really have any answers about after several visits. In March I visited a new acupuncturist (had no neuropathy or foot problems prior) who needled my left foot (needles left in for a lot longer than my original acupuncturist no idea if that matters), that night my foot began to feel cold and uncomfortable. The next day it was very bad with cold and numbness in my foot that ran half way up my calf. It did improve and I thought I was about out of the woods a couple weeks later with it being practically asymptomatic but to my dismay it would get re-aggravated by heavier activity (and I was an active guy). After it got flared up a few weeks into it things got really bad for a while, very cold foot and calf, very difficult to walk on. Eventually these symptoms subsided with weeks of rest but I was left with a weaker leg and sort of shock like tingles in a couple of my toes. I was also dismayed to discover that going on longer drives also aggravated the foot and it would flare up for days afterward. I took it very easy over the summer, basically being a home body in the hope this would recover like it did in the initial stage after the injury. Unfortunately my feet (the right one started feeling tingling "asleep" like sensations a couple months ago) have now settled into a chronic tingling sensation, sort of like the sleeping feeling they get when you cut off circulation. I still get more “electric shock” like tingles in my toes in the left foot, really noticeable when wearing shoes. While I am pretty much walking normally I have lost muscle and strength and I am extremely frustrated at the lack of progress and my foots ability to get aggravated by activity that meant nothing to the athlete I was prior to this. I’m 28, saw a couple regular doctors and a neurologist, subsequently had a back MRI (“Your MRI of your back shows a small disc bulge in the low back between the lumbar and sacral spine”, but my neuro thought nothing of it and I don’t really have back pain. Normal blood test (B12 at 1471 pg/ml). My neuro wants to do a brain and neck MRI just to rule things out but the general consensus is unlikely these will show anything. I started taking RLA and a B complex a few days back but am open to any treatments or ideas. This is a very weird and unexplained injury and if anyone has any idea what might have happened I’d love to hear because the docs don’t really want to even hear that the acupuncture treatment caused it (imagine that!)