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Menopause? Arms, hands, legs and feet numbness
Are these menopause symtoms?
For the past 5-6 weeks, I've been having numbness/tingling in my arms, hands and legs and feet. I've also had tingling in the face area.........mouth and tongue. My eyes sometimes feel itchy as sometimes my skin. I've had headaches and felt light-headed. Sometimes my face gets flushed and so do my arms, like I'm burning under my skin. My finger joints feel sore. I can't hold a book or magazine and turn the pages, my hands and fingers feel sore.
I've had blood work, a MRI of the brain, and a nerve test done. All my test results are fine. My Neurologist suggested it's anxiety or I'm hyperventilating. Oh, I was also sent to Physical Therapy for tight muscles in my shoulder in neck. The PT said I was fine. The Neurologist told me to come back in six weeks. Okay, but I still don't know what's wrong with me!!!
Help! Can this be related to Menopause? I had a hysterectomy in 2004 and have both of my ovaries.
Thanks!
For the past 5-6 weeks, I've been having numbness/tingling in my arms, hands and legs and feet. I've also had tingling in the face area.........mouth and tongue. My eyes sometimes feel itchy as sometimes my skin. I've had headaches and felt light-headed. Sometimes my face gets flushed and so do my arms, like I'm burning under my skin. My finger joints feel sore. I can't hold a book or magazine and turn the pages, my hands and fingers feel sore.
I've had blood work, a MRI of the brain, and a nerve test done. All my test results are fine. My Neurologist suggested it's anxiety or I'm hyperventilating. Oh, I was also sent to Physical Therapy for tight muscles in my shoulder in neck. The PT said I was fine. The Neurologist told me to come back in six weeks. Okay, but I still don't know what's wrong with me!!!
Help! Can this be related to Menopause? I had a hysterectomy in 2004 and have both of my ovaries.
Thanks!
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Hello all. I am 49 and my hormone tests, which I received today, show that I am post menopausal. I have been having menopausal symptoms for years but my doctor told me I was too young! I have experienced most of the usual symptoms such as hot flushes, brain fog etc but my main concerns were and still are, the hair loss and lack of libido. In the last few weeks I have also been experiencing numbness in my face. I am going for an MRI tomorrow but reading some of your comments I am now thinking this might be hormone related also. Has anybody else experienced numbness in their face? I feel I have turned into an old woman in the past few months and would like to know are there any natural products/remedies I can take to slow down the dramatic ageing process? I don't mind growing old gracefully but at this rate I will look like a sixty year old before I am fifty! Has anyone tried Macafem? Does it help? Thanks.
I have so much buzzing and stiffness in my feet and calves. The numbness comes and goes in my toes and feet. 3 months since my last period.
Hi:
I'm not sure if exercise helps everyone, but I certainly don't think it hurts. In fact, the reason I'm reading this forum now (after not reading it for almost a year) is because I recently had a flare up of burning mouth syndrome and tingly feeling on my face after not having it very bad for awhile. (The numbness and pain in my hands are arms have gone away completely.) Coincidentally, I haven't been doing my regular exercises for about 3 months. After the flare-up began, I started running again 2 weeks ago, and I'm hoping this will help. For me, running accomplishes 2 things: helps with my anxiety and helps with the blood circulation. It also makes me more tired at night, so I sleep better. My acupuncurist told me that hormonal imbalances, whether it is perimenopause or menopause or whatever, can cause anxiety and that anxiety can manifest in many ways for different people.
Just to let you know, I'm 46 and I've been experiencing perimenopause symptoms for the past 6 years. It started out with just mild anxiety and now it's a range of symptoms. The good things is that it comes and goes for me. I think they use the term "perimenopause" in the medical field as the time when periods start changing, but I have also been told that it can take 10 years of fluctuating before even that happens. Yuck!
So, for now, I try not to be too worried about it and try to do all good things for my body (rest, exercise, supplements, eating healthy). I also use an OTC bio-identical progesterone cream that I get from the health food store whenever I'm feeling out of balance.
Good luck to you. Hope you feel better soon.
I'm not sure if exercise helps everyone, but I certainly don't think it hurts. In fact, the reason I'm reading this forum now (after not reading it for almost a year) is because I recently had a flare up of burning mouth syndrome and tingly feeling on my face after not having it very bad for awhile. (The numbness and pain in my hands are arms have gone away completely.) Coincidentally, I haven't been doing my regular exercises for about 3 months. After the flare-up began, I started running again 2 weeks ago, and I'm hoping this will help. For me, running accomplishes 2 things: helps with my anxiety and helps with the blood circulation. It also makes me more tired at night, so I sleep better. My acupuncurist told me that hormonal imbalances, whether it is perimenopause or menopause or whatever, can cause anxiety and that anxiety can manifest in many ways for different people.
Just to let you know, I'm 46 and I've been experiencing perimenopause symptoms for the past 6 years. It started out with just mild anxiety and now it's a range of symptoms. The good things is that it comes and goes for me. I think they use the term "perimenopause" in the medical field as the time when periods start changing, but I have also been told that it can take 10 years of fluctuating before even that happens. Yuck!
So, for now, I try not to be too worried about it and try to do all good things for my body (rest, exercise, supplements, eating healthy). I also use an OTC bio-identical progesterone cream that I get from the health food store whenever I'm feeling out of balance.
Good luck to you. Hope you feel better soon.
I'm 52 (no cycle since March 2014) and about 3 months ago, I started to have skin burning sensations. Like a horrible sunburn. Started on my face, then went to the tops of my feet and hands then legs and arms, then back and chest and now ears and scalp. I burn from head to toe along with heartburn.
Had a ton of bloodwork: ANA/CRP/SED/Iron/Glucose/A1C/thyroid/B12 etc. All normal. I even went to an neurologist and had a brain MRI..perfectly normal. Neurologist said anxiety and sent me back to my GP. My GP said anxiety and menopause. She gave me Zoloft 25mg which I just started a few days ago.
If this is how things are going to be..I don't know how I will ever survive. I feel like I was dunked in hot water.
Also have headaches, crying spells, can't keep my eyes open sometimes and other times, can't fall asleep.
I thought when I was done with perimenopause and was in menopause, things were supposed to start to get better but instead...they have gotten worse. UGH!
Had a ton of bloodwork: ANA/CRP/SED/Iron/Glucose/A1C/thyroid/B12 etc. All normal. I even went to an neurologist and had a brain MRI..perfectly normal. Neurologist said anxiety and sent me back to my GP. My GP said anxiety and menopause. She gave me Zoloft 25mg which I just started a few days ago.
If this is how things are going to be..I don't know how I will ever survive. I feel like I was dunked in hot water.
Also have headaches, crying spells, can't keep my eyes open sometimes and other times, can't fall asleep.
I thought when I was done with perimenopause and was in menopause, things were supposed to start to get better but instead...they have gotten worse. UGH!
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