After being rear-ended twice with two cases of whiplash, an x-ray revealed (when I was seen for second accident) that I have zero curve in cervical spine and the doctor acted like it was really a big deal and recommended me to a "spine specialist".

I was feeling OK and didn't go as it was also at the time that our family's world was turned upside down and I had to care night and day for my daughter and little man, as well as unborn grandchild.

I've been having on and off semi-numbness, pins and needles, and tingling down my left arm on the outside (elbow down to ring and pinkie fingers), but also at times down into my left foot (most of the time it was the outside toes as well but now it just starts there and will move all the way to big toe and include top side of foot). Sometimes both feet are involved, but mostly it's the left.

You know the feeling when your leg has fallen asleep and you've just changed your position to get blood flow back to it...that pins and needles, tingling with still some numbness there? That's the way it feels...though sometimes my outside toes will feel completely numb, minus the rest.

Also, every single night in bed I'm doing it now with my arms. I can only lay in one position that one of my arms or hands won't do that.

I've found, now, that I'm holding myself very stiff as well...shoulders always high and tense and I don't know when this began and I can get dizzy out of the clear blue. It's like I'll turn or move quickly and my body stops turning/moving but my brain doesn't. It's strange and only lasts a few seconds.

I know I should follow-up with the specialist now that things are calming down in my world (I couldn't have done PT or anything regular if my life had depended on it before), but I just wondered if showing zero curve in my cervical spine is as concerning as the doctor's face showed it to be...he almost seemed shocked...repeating there was absolutely none.

Does anyone know anything about this that they can share? I wonder if this could it be a cause for the semi-numbness, pins and needles, tingling and weird "dizziness" that I feel?

When going through all the upset with daughter's illness, etc., I chalked it up to stress, tension, etc. It's not gone away though, but is even more persistent, it seems. It's now becoming an issue that I don't think I can put on the back burner or ignore.

Anything shared would be appreciated.

KD