Tickling, blurred vision, headache, etc...

[avator_infernus]

Hello,
I've asked this question before elsewhere and no one ever gave me a straight answer about it.  My doc said it was nothing last time I asked about this.   For the past few weeks I started feeling a sort of tickling feeling on my left food.  About where it touches the right one.  Fells like a hair was touching my skin.  It happenned before with some twitching too, it did go away but now it doesn't seem to go away this time.  In fact, it started spreading in my big toe and below the heel.  When I wear socks or something I don't really feel it.   I have the same thing going on the inside of my left forearm now, and little finger.
I also have some problem with my right eye, it seems to be more blurred than usual, I can't tell cause my left eye has always been very weak so I really can't compare.  Nevertheless it's giving me mega headaches.  My neck and lower back hurts, sometimes I feel sharp pain in my lap or in my feet.
I only weight 105 pounds now it seems, I use to weight 125 at the beginning of the yea :(... am female, 22 years old.  
Right now I am not able to concentrate on anything, seems my memory just doesn't want to work cause all this is stressing me out.   Don't know what to do, will take months to see a doctor here

[CCF-Neuro-M.D.-CS]

The symptoms you describe involve mutiple areas of the nervous system. The symptoms you are describing could be do to inflammatroy central nervous system disorders, metabolic disorders, complicated migraines, or stress (to name a few). If you feel that you can not wait to see your doctor, you should call him/her and tell them what you are experiencing. Perhaps they could see you sooner. Certainly if your symptoms progress or you develop disabling symptoms you should go to your local hospital ER. Good luck

[Freddd]

I'll give you a straight answer.  The neuropathies in my feet started as the feeling of a hair or cobwebs brushing or wrapped around my toe.  As most docs will tell you "the cause of most neuropathies is never found".  So I guess this is the kind of answer you have been getting.  I discovered 15 years after those neuropathies started and I have large numb areas under the balls of my feet and it feels like my socks bunched up all the time, that the cause of my neuropathies and a multitude of other symtoms including essentially all of yours and many more that I have had a lifetime of methylcobalamin (methylB12, the coenzyme immediately active version of the vitamin) deficiency despite almost a lifetime of cyanocobalamin supplementation.  Some of my symtoms reversed starting in 15 minutes.  Neural healing can go on for years with methyB12.

It also made a day and night difference for my 3 children some of their friends.  There are 4 of us that are hypersensitive to brand differences.  So far the two brands that have been effective are Enzymatic Therapies Bioactive B12 1000mcg methylcobalamin and Jarrow Formula's methyl B-12 1000 mcg methylcobalamin.  Source Naturals 5000mcg methylcobalamin did not maintain the effect of the other brands and symtoms returned and/or worsened.  In addition for methylb12 to be maximumly effective it needs to be taken with cofactors which can be secondary or tertiary limits, the next weakest link in the chain.  Folic acid to a total of agbout 2mg per day, a high potency bcomplex and a multivit/minerals, 400 of E, 1-2 grams of C and be sure of zink.


Now every one of your symtoms is a symtom of methylB12 deficiency but there are other things that could account for them.  A pragmatic test could tell you if you are severely deficient and there is no known downside risk to methylcobalamin.  You could know within less than an hour or it might take 3 months.  This kind of b12 deficiency will result in a high MMA level in urine and a high serum homocysteine level.  This will change following administration of methylb12.  Because the damage worsens with time and can become permanent and life threatening, many consider it prudent to supplement with methylb12 immediately upon suspicion of deficiency.  Response demonstrates that deficiency had existed.  Good luck.

[avator_infernus]

I take Centrum everyday, don't know if it's suppose to help or not.   But they say there's some B12 in it. "Vitamin B12 6 mcg" along with other things :/   Don't know if that is okay..

I was wondering if it could also be mental or physical stress (I do work in front of a computer everyday of week).
Also, some people said it could be Type 1 diabeties, which I found scary.  Even though they weren't doctors or anything.  Cause I DO have a sugar addiction...

[Freddd]

The 6 micrograms of cyanocobalamin is virtually worthless if you can't convert it to methylcobalamin or absorb it.  I took 50+mcg of cyanocobalamin for years every day.  It in no way prevented my severe B12 deficiency condition from happening.  It wasn't until I  took the 1000 mcg methylcobalamin that the lights came on and symtoms started reversing.  I worked every day on the computer for 20+ years.  Believe me, that has nothing to do with neuropathies in my feet and legs.  The methylB12 has helped every part of my body.

I'm a systems analyst.  The docs haven't given you a straight answer.  Of course I didn't get any either for 30 years worth of neuropathies and a whole lot more.  My earliest symtoms go back 53 years. I have seen more than 100 docs of every variety and specialty over the years and not one of them gave me the answer that fixed ANY of my symtoms. I have more than 30 symtoms that all point at B12 deficiency.  If you take the drastic step of spending $10 on a bottle of methylb12 supplement you might get a real straight answer in a matter of hours to months, an answer that no amount of verbiage and intellectuallizing can give you.  There could be other things causing your problems.  However methylb12 deficiency COULD be an explanation.  That is the best answer I can offer you.  A simple personal nutritional experiment will tell the tale better than $10,000 worth of testing.

[avator_infernus]

thanks lots, I'll try to get an appointment to get my blood tested then.  Anyway, I should also have my sugar level tested...

[lizee1960]

HI, I am a 43 yr old female.  In 1997 I was diagnosted with Fibromyalgia which fits alittle. I also have Tendinitis in both wrist and shoulders.  Now for the last year I have had a tremor in my right hand and my body feels like it is shaking inside and out.  My head shakes as well but not all the time.  I too have the tingling in the face mostly on the left side, I have lost my eye sight in my left eye for a short time of this year and I have the tingling in my whole left side and the numbness.  It did come back almost like a dimmer light but the tingling and numbness was there for about a month.  The doc I saw called it a TIA which is a brian attack or minnie stoke.  I have had all test but a MRI which my doc will not due at this time and he feels it is not nessesary.  I had my CT and it showed that my brian shrink.  I looked on here and this could MS or parkinson but I can't get the nero or my doc to do it for me.  Does anyone have the same.  Liz from Canada

[lizee1960]

Hi,
Centrum is garage.  Anything you buy in the stores or Pharmacy's you might as well put your money in the garage.  Did you know that 80% is advistising and 10 to 15% is packaging, now you have 5% for your vit.  Why waste your money.  I can tell you more info on what I am taking and it's approved by the Canada Asso.  This is the real stuff and you will feel the different as I have. It's really helped with my fagitue and alot of other problems.  If your interested you can email me at ***@****  Hope your doing better.  Liz from Canada