Tingly Face...

[r4zpu71n]

I had recently quit smoking, but sometimes when I'm craving, I smoke (don't intentionally inhale, if at all) a nasty cigar to remind myself how bad smoking is for me.  Rarely do I do this, but afterwards... an 2 or 3 hours later, I start to get numbness in my face and lower neck... anxiety throws it to my legs and hands.  I had a cat scan, and blood work, and all that jazz.  All came back healthy with a little less potassium in my body, but it was like 3.3 and normal is 3.5.  No dizzyness, no numbness, no headaches, just annoying tingles.

I'm not too overweight, bout 5'11 200lbs, 19 year old male.

thanks in advance.

[jhebison]

My mother had a very good doctor years ago, unfortunately he died a number of years ago.  She complained of her knees hurting and he said that might indicate low potassium.  So he had her begin taking potassium and checked it periodically to be sure she was not too high.  What they found was that if she dropped below 4.0 (safe is as high as 5.0) she would have bad weakness and her knees would begin hurting again.
I have since found that very high dosages of potassium is helping my energy and reducing my pain after being disabled since 2002 from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.  My potassium always tested above 3.0.  Apparently that is not nearly high enough for me.  I had complained of low energy and very slow recovery from exercise to my doctors for the precious 8 years.  No one picked up on potassium as being at least one of my problems.  The doc I'm going to now said that many people have problems if their potassium drops below 3.5.  
You might ask your doctor to prescribe potassium with the agreement you will let him/her test you as often as he wants to make sure you don't go to high.  I have found that almost all doctors are arrogant idiots and do not listen to their patients.  Hopefully, you have a good one.  
FYI, I have also found that female doctors are more likely to listen to you and care more than the men.  I'd expect a man to at least respect another man even if they are chauvinist, but they don't.  Just too arrogant to think anyone else might have a clue what is going on.  I have decided to try and limit myself to female doctors.
Good luck.

[Cricket16]

This could be the start of MS (Multiple Sclerosis). If this is the case, clinical symptoms should start appearing soon, face pain, slow reflexes... If these symptoms appear than go away, you should still contact a doctor for a diagnosis as this could just be a relapse period. You should keep track of the frequency, amplitude of your symptoms. Good luck.

[r4zpu71n]

I'm having an MRI(on my brain) and an EMG (in my arm) done on the 15th.  I've noticed that my symptoms only appear when i'm sitting for a while.  I went to a doctor concerning back pain in relation to this, and he said that any injury to my back would make my face tingly. For instance, i was sitting at a friends place watching movies, then my face got tingly.  After i went to play my marching baritone, which i was standing the whole time, it went away.  That led me to believe it was something in my back. I've been told that i have poor posture and have been working on that.

I was told that most of my reflexes were good, and when the neurologist first looked in my eyes said there was no pressure on the optic nerve.  

I was also considering thyroid problems maybe?

What does anyone think?

And is there any specifics i should request on the MRI and EMG?

[r4zpu71n]

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