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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!
All,
Here are some suggestions from someone who is finally beginning to feel better after years of suffering with all kinds of symptoms, and who became very frustrated with the inadequacy—and apathy!— I experienced from doctors attempting to treat women's health issues:
1. Buy a copy of the book "Moody *******" by Julie Holland, MD. You'll feel better and saner as soon as you start to read it.
2. Find a doctor who can treat hormonal issues, and ask if they prescribe bioidentical hormones via a compounding pharmacy. Some of them can be found under the term "Bodylogics."You can also search under "compounding pharmacy" in your area. Don't panic if you can't find one near you, as many of them will ship. They can often help you find doctors and are very knowledgeable on these issues.
I am in my fifties, have been in menopause for years, but continued to have debilitating symptoms which my hormone patch didn't help. Plus I learned that the "bioidentical" patch I was on was half-synthetic, increasing my cancer risk!
I am finally experiencing relief on true bioidenticals from a compounding pharmacy. I was worried that they'd be expensive, but they're actually not that much more than my patch was. (and so worth it!)
Am also taking Vitamin D and iron—very important! I've found that avoiding wheat, dairy, and refined sugars can make a difference (though I love them, dammit). Also eating fresh dark green leafy vegetables...steamed, in salads, or with olive oil & garlic...just cram them down your gullet!
Trying to walk a bit more, and it's easier now that I'm getting some stamina back.
I'm not out of the woods yet, but I am feeling a lot better. Hope this helps, and best of luck to you all!
Here are some suggestions from someone who is finally beginning to feel better after years of suffering with all kinds of symptoms, and who became very frustrated with the inadequacy—and apathy!— I experienced from doctors attempting to treat women's health issues:
1. Buy a copy of the book "Moody *******" by Julie Holland, MD. You'll feel better and saner as soon as you start to read it.
2. Find a doctor who can treat hormonal issues, and ask if they prescribe bioidentical hormones via a compounding pharmacy. Some of them can be found under the term "Bodylogics."You can also search under "compounding pharmacy" in your area. Don't panic if you can't find one near you, as many of them will ship. They can often help you find doctors and are very knowledgeable on these issues.
I am in my fifties, have been in menopause for years, but continued to have debilitating symptoms which my hormone patch didn't help. Plus I learned that the "bioidentical" patch I was on was half-synthetic, increasing my cancer risk!
I am finally experiencing relief on true bioidenticals from a compounding pharmacy. I was worried that they'd be expensive, but they're actually not that much more than my patch was. (and so worth it!)
Am also taking Vitamin D and iron—very important! I've found that avoiding wheat, dairy, and refined sugars can make a difference (though I love them, dammit). Also eating fresh dark green leafy vegetables...steamed, in salads, or with olive oil & garlic...just cram them down your gullet!
Trying to walk a bit more, and it's easier now that I'm getting some stamina back.
I'm not out of the woods yet, but I am feeling a lot better. Hope this helps, and best of luck to you all!
Dear Michelle I also have swelling of both hands every night sometimes one or both hands are numbish when I wake up that goes away as soon as I start moving around. I also have prickly tingling and numbish feelings that move around feet legs body front and back arms and hands, face and scalp and tongue ,all lab test and MRI normal. The swelling is less during the day but not gone. Tried Climara patch for 7 weeks no change in symptoms so stopped due to cancer risk. This has been going on for 2 years. I am 57. Hope for all. Dee
I am so relieved to have found this forum. I have been unwell for 2.5 years and very debilitated by many of the same symptoms I have read about here. I am 46. I was always a healthy person who ate well, exercised a lot (ran marathons as an example), and had a great job in media as a VP. The symptoms I deal with have taken my life away and I spend most if my time in bed. Here is a list of the major symptoms:
Extreme swelling especially in the morning (my fingers look like sausages and my face like a puff fish)
Tendon pain all over but particularly bad in my hands and elbows (it migrates around my body)
Horrible fatigue (I can sleep anywhere at anytime and never feel rested)
Muscle cramping that comes out of the blue and happens in my hands, arms, legs and feet (sometimes I have to drop my purse and one time I had to pull off the road as my hands cramped on the steering wheel)
If a body part is bent for a period of time, for instance my elbow, it hurts to straighten it
Large breasts for my size and they have gotten much bigger in the past 5 years (not fun...I'm a size 6 but am now wearing size 10 to fit my chest)
Recently I am getting hot flashes accompanied by anxiety.
I was tested for everything ( MS , Lyme, EMGs for carpal tunnel, Rheumatoid, Lupus, Thyroid, minerals, etc.). Everything is normal except my Thyroid is off. My functional medicine doctor put me on dessicated thyroid a few months ago but nothing has improved. Many doctors I have seen dismiss me as a crazy woman which frustrates the heck out of me. I've tried bringing in a written list of symptoms to my latest appointments and this doesn't help either.
Like a lot of you, I obsess about what this is and do I have a horrible disease. The closest illness I resemble is Fibromyalgia but I don't have tender muscles or tender points so I dont think it is this. My functional medicine doctor doesn't think it is Fibro either (thank goodness and prayers to those who have it).
I have removed gluten with no benefit but I am only on day 12 so I will give it longer.
I see a hormone doctor in three days and I am going to try to get on Progesterone.
To those on this forum, do you also get swelling? Do the symptoms eventually subside after menopause?
It would be nice to know there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Extreme swelling especially in the morning (my fingers look like sausages and my face like a puff fish)
Tendon pain all over but particularly bad in my hands and elbows (it migrates around my body)
Horrible fatigue (I can sleep anywhere at anytime and never feel rested)
Muscle cramping that comes out of the blue and happens in my hands, arms, legs and feet (sometimes I have to drop my purse and one time I had to pull off the road as my hands cramped on the steering wheel)
If a body part is bent for a period of time, for instance my elbow, it hurts to straighten it
Large breasts for my size and they have gotten much bigger in the past 5 years (not fun...I'm a size 6 but am now wearing size 10 to fit my chest)
Recently I am getting hot flashes accompanied by anxiety.
I was tested for everything ( MS , Lyme, EMGs for carpal tunnel, Rheumatoid, Lupus, Thyroid, minerals, etc.). Everything is normal except my Thyroid is off. My functional medicine doctor put me on dessicated thyroid a few months ago but nothing has improved. Many doctors I have seen dismiss me as a crazy woman which frustrates the heck out of me. I've tried bringing in a written list of symptoms to my latest appointments and this doesn't help either.
Like a lot of you, I obsess about what this is and do I have a horrible disease. The closest illness I resemble is Fibromyalgia but I don't have tender muscles or tender points so I dont think it is this. My functional medicine doctor doesn't think it is Fibro either (thank goodness and prayers to those who have it).
I have removed gluten with no benefit but I am only on day 12 so I will give it longer.
I see a hormone doctor in three days and I am going to try to get on Progesterone.
To those on this forum, do you also get swelling? Do the symptoms eventually subside after menopause?
It would be nice to know there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
I just got my brain and spine Mir results. Neurologist ruled out MS. (What a relief). He suspects its migraine giving me all these weird sensation. Which kind of make sense. Anyone get migraines or extreme headaches?
It can cause parethesia.
It can cause parethesia.
I have all of the symptoms above but I also experience shivering from time to time. My whole body trembles and my teeth chatter. This comes usually at night after all the head tingling, heart pounding, cold feet and hands, nasal congestion and vertigo. I feel ill after I eat but I have had an endoscopy and even though I have a small hiatus hernia and slight redness of the stomach lining and throat and been prescribed Zantac I still feel awful. I am anemic due to heavy periods and I take Trihemic. Any thoughts? I hope so cause I feel as if I am dying sometimes.
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