Numbness & Tingling in hands and feet

grandma123 · 05-06-2012, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Dr. Smith

Let us know what the MRI turns up. Not just the technical jargon; we can try to interpret that, but it tends to lead to a lot more speculation, which can lead to unwarranted fear, and I don't know how helpful that is. IMO, it's more helpful when accompained by the interpretation and results of your follow-up, but that's your call.

Before seeing another chiropractor, please google: chiropractic stroke

Take care,

Doc

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The MRI may shed some light on the hands, but if it's just cervical, not the feet.

Having read the script the doctor wrote for the MRI, he does not believe that the numbness and tingling in my hands and feet are related to my back issues nor resulting from them. He wants the cervical MRI to rule out (or in) demyelination (MS), HNP, etc.. He told me the test would be to "rule out the bad stuff". But it might also rule them in.

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Before seeing another chiropractor, please google: chiropractic stroke

I am so done with chiropractors. I have gone to them off and on for 20 years and they have never helped and in some cases hurt. I think their ability to help is really limited to some very specific issues.

I always get copies of every medical test I have, including operative reports, etc.. Most people should do this. They would be surprised at what the doctor isn't telling them.

I am sure that sometime this week I will get a call scheduling an MRI (if my insurance company approves it) and then a follow up appt. will be scheduled to discuss it. He is going to run some nerve tests, too.

Whatever the test results show and if he is not optimistic about treating the symptoms, then I am going to move on to a neurologist at a teaching hospital in the city. I will ask my oncologist for a reference. He is very good at that.

Thanks again for all the helpful feedback.

grandma123 · 05-06-2012, 09:30 AM

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So it is possible that physical therapy, especially if done brusquely, could have caused something to be moved enough to impinge something and cause symptoms at multiple levels. I imagine, though, the an MRI of the neck would likely show such an impingment if the symptoms came on that acutely--it wuld be similar to symptoms caused by a sudden trauma.

Something tells me it won't be that simple. That might be something that could be addressed and possibly reversed or at least reduced. All I know is that things snowballed from just neck pain when I went to the chiropractor - when I left it was neck pain and sciatica, then at PT it was neck pain, sciatica, numbness & tingling and shoulder pain, then onto the physiatrist with all these same conditions plus occipital neuralgia (which the cortisone shot took away). So, instead of improving, I am getting worse.

Thanks for your reply.

ejwblibby · 05-12-2012, 01:59 AM

I have had numbness in my hands ever since I ruptured discs in my neck 19 years ago. I now have a ruptured thoracic 7/8 disc and have a numb left foot and tingles down both legs - so anything is possible.

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Originally Posted by grandma123

It started March 8th - the day after my PT began for neck and back pain. This was after going to a chiropractor for 2 weeks for the neck pain - no success but he did cause sciatica. So the PT was working on that and the pain in the neck. From the day after the first PT I developed the numbness & tingling in hands and feet - so they suspended the neck exercises but continuted manipulations. Then I developed shoulder pain. At this point I decided to go back to my PCP who told me to try a physiatrist. He gave me a steroid shot in the neck and shoulder. Three weeks later, they were a little better but the numbness & tingling is worse and I developed occipital neuralgia. He gave me a steroid shot in the head for that which seemed to help and another one for the shoulder.

He ordered an MRI of cervical area (insurance needs to approve first).

I am 61 years old, not diabetic but I do have a lot of back problems: scoliosis, spinal stenosis, buldging and herniated dics and degenerative joint disease (arthritic changes). I had carpal tunnel surgery on both hands 8 years ago and it was very successful.

So what started out as neck pain, progressed to neck pain, sciatica, shoulder pain, numbness & tingling and occipital neuralgia.

I don't think it's a coincidence that the numbness & tingling started the day after PT started. Didn't have it before.

However, my biggest fear has always been getting MS. I know most people's is getting cancer - but I've already had cancer (breast) and I fear MS more.

Has anyone has a similar problem with numbness & tingling?

Any help would be appreciated.

Voorhees · 07-08-2012, 03:40 PM

Sounds like similar symptoms I started with before i was diagnosed with having spinal stenosis. If your nerve bundles and or spinal cord is being compressed can cause similar symptoms. Have them do a mri for sure because the ER missed it when they did a cat scan. I had a MRI done a week later and it uncovered my stenosis among other things.

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