Is tingling a definite sign of healing? What are the signs of healing?

You know, I always wanted to ask that question. Now if a person is completely numb in his feet (like Alan, who can't feel if he steps on something, or if he's bleeding from his foot ulcer, etc. etc.). Now Alan always has the pins and needles and burning between three toes of his left foot and certain toes of his right foot. Years ago, he was put on the fentanyl pain patch because he almost went out of his mind. Then came Dr. Theirl and no more pain patch. Now he is on IVIG and last night he said to me "Melody, I think this IVIG thing is working because I could never lie straight on my back without the tingling for long periods and now I can!!".

So if a person has numbness and tingling, then would it be safe to say that if that person has longer periods of no tingling or slight tingling, (where before he had severe pins and needles tingling) than that person can be said to be healing??????

It's a good question believe me.

Melody

I think it can mean either they are getting better thus less tingling or getting worse as in nerves dying thus also less tingling. This is why PN is so much fun. Cant wait till the next bend in the road to see what comes up...haha

As Joe said, tingling (as well as other symptoms) can be a sign of either.

For some who are improving quickly (likely the cause has been removed before more severe damage has been done), just plain old feeling and/or moving better is a sign of healing.

For others, seemingly new symptoms, worsened symptoms, and sometimes just plain weird symptoms a signs of healing. Of course, that can also be true with worsening.

Eventually, a long-term pattern of any or all of the above, but with an overall improvement over time, will tell.

rose

that things are getting better. Usually when nerves regrow and 'reconnect', the tinglings, some zeeps and zaps occur as the nerves try and figure out what to do and where to go. It's usually more random and intermittent in it all, even the pains, as those nerves aren't and don't grow in any precise regular way.
As long as it's in an area affected and not a new one, just new 'feelings' THINK GOOD THINGS!

This is an area that very little research is being done other than nerves in the brain and spine...the bigger nerves. Most work seems to focus on why they die and how.

Melody, ask Alan if he feels as if he's walking on something like styrofoam packing peanuts...if so, then things are truly improving.

I warn you all, these strange sensations tend to come and go, randomly and without warning. Just don't stress yourself out of improvement because it's strange. Thinking positively about new strange is better than absolutely NOTHING! - j

are thinking soo alike?

That is a complement to YOU! - j

That's hard to answer at the beginning the tingling drove me crazy,then the burn,as well as the cold.Then spreading up the calves oh i forgot the spasms.There is not being able to stand pressure of balkets or sheets.Than went to hands tinging,burning,my fingers must be spread apart,it's like there are electrical shocks if they touch.My finger tips feeling when it comes to hot or cold.Must be careful not,to burn,i don't feel the burn but see the blisters.Up to elbows.Where i do feel tinging is across the middle of my back,which my neuro thinks is more neuropathy. Oh i've been at this to long.

But my mom had trouble with her feet they tingled,then got cold we could feel the cold, but she couldn't,yet she always kept them with the sheets and blankets off,maybe the pressure thing. Iguess my answer after all this mess is i don't know,because there are just 2 many types of neuropaties (polyneurothys) that hit some of us..I'm realy hope that tinging is healing for
you. Sue

Mel how did you and Alan met???

Ah, thank you.

New symptoms may appear too. Even in another area. Sometimes there is malfunction that results in symptoms so subtle they are not noticed. So when that area begins to repair the symptoms seem new.

rose

Sue:

We met 27 years ago through mutual friends. I got his number, I called him up. We spoke on the phone, he said he was a P.I. I said "What's a Pi???? And he burst out laughing and he said "I'm a Private Investigator". I said "Oh, like Magnum PI???" and he said "exactly, but it doesn't pay what Magnum gets".

We arranged for a date. He came to my door, took one look at me, fell head over heels (I'm not kidding, that's what I looked like at 30 years old). I used to look like Elizabeth Taylor, but now that I'm almost 60, well maybe I look like a 60 year old Elizabeth Taylor, lol).

Anyway, we eloped 3 months later. We were both around 32 at the time.

Oh, you'll fine this interesting. I'm a second wife. Alan was married at age 24 to a woman who left him while he was was on reserves in the army. She cleaned out his bank account and he came home to nothing. They were only married 3 months. Imagine that happening to you??? He lost everything and had to move back home with his dad. His mom had died of Guillian Barre Complications before his marriage.

Anyway, it took him a long time to trust any woman and he was engaged 3 times till he married me. His family didn't even give us any wedding presents because they thought he was a flake who couldn't stay married. I mean, look at his track record.

I will never forget after we married and we went to the bank to open up a joint bank account. He told the clerk "I want her name on it but I don't want her to be able to take any money out without my signature" The lady gave him a look but I laughed out loud. I knew what his first wife had done to him. The lady told him "Listen to me, sir, you married this woman, you better start trusting her". So he put my name on the account too!!!!!

Guess what happened after one year??? We had Frank, and Frank must have been 5 months old. We had a fight and I went to visit my girlfriend for the day. I called up Alan to see if he had calmed down and he said "you mean you didn't leave me?" I said "are you crazy?" and he said (quite humbly), "then I better go back and put all the money back in the bank".

He thought, because we had a fight, that I would run to the bank and clean him out like his first wife did, so he thought he would beat me to it and he cleaned it out first.

I yelled at him and said "don't you dare do anything like that to me again"!!!!. He never did. Believe me, this guy had to learn how to trust again.

And he did. Been 27 years now. While we don't have a lot of money in the bank, it's still there......lol

Melody

Thanks,i loved it,i was a second wife as well,but look more like Doris Day.
I got married at 19 a month after i met him..My parents were not happy.
His first wife looked like Elizabeth Taylor,that is interesting.He was dark,
handsome and older,very charming....Here comes that storm again Sue