tell me in your words how you decribe numbness

[angelbum31]

tell me in your own words how do you decribe  your numbness?

is it full numbness or partial ?

on my first few relapses i could say my numbess effected me fully with useless arm symdrome

i also was numd fully from the waist down

but now i feel i get partial numbness in my hands in feet seems to be worst in the morning

i can still type etc but i feel some pain too at the same time

its almost like i feel their like swollen i find it hard to explain

i wondered if their is a easier way to explain it ?

thank you

[Sumanadevii]

I never could describe numb properly to my first neuro.  I didn't have any idea what he was talking about ...until....I left him and went to my present neuro.  After my first steroid treatments I knew what numb was...To me it feels like I have been shot with Novocain at the dentist.  When I touch my thighs or legs after steroids that is how it feels.  After a few weeks the back pain comes back and no numb feeling...

[supermum_ms]

Its such a simple question but i seem to be having trouble finding the right words, not cog issue, more because its a quite strange feeling and i dont really have anything coming to mind that makes much sense.lol

My numb seems to be a different feeling depending on where it is on my body. Sometimes my foot will simply be dead, i cant feel it at all, i'm aware i cant feel the floor beneith my foot. Aware its not right because there are no sensations of any kind, like its not there and when i try to walk its like someone has replaced my foot with a bag of concrete. To walk I am throwing my self around trying to lift the dead weight on the end of my leg, i need to lift my knee higher than normal or the foot just flops and i trip. Unlike the usual 'foot gone to sleep' there are no tingles as the feeling return, for me there is no ryme or reason behind it, its just dead then its not.

Then i have the hit with a hammer numb, i cant honestly say if my thumb is dead prior to feeling the after affects of being hit with an invisible hammer, im just not aware of any sensations in my thumb prior to feeling the pressure and tingling, that feeling can last for days and days before it suddenly stops. Sometimes its just my thumb and other times its also my pinkie and ring, still havent found logic with the when and why of it.

When parts of my face go tingly, its more annoying and distracting, i cant remember if my nose tip, or the bag (lol) under my right eye has ever gone completey dead but the tingly feeling has been around for so long now, i cant remember what it should be like lol.

The medical definition of numb is...."a partial or total lack of sensation in a body part resulting from any factor that interrupts the transmission of impulses from the sensory nerve fibers. Numbness is often accompanied by tingling."
Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th edition. © 2009, Elsevier.

I am sure there are times when i'm numb and just dont know it until after the tingling starts, lets face it, my nose is on the end of my face but i really only know its there when the tingling tells me so lol!

Cheers..........JJ

[COBOB]

I have a pretty constant "buzz/vibration/hum" in my left hand and both lower legs and feet.  Sometimes it will increase and become very intense taking on a burning characteristic.

[RedFlame]

I have areas that I have no feeling in.  If you were to squeeze that area, I would feel it deep down in the muscle, but to touch it there is no feeling.  I have used the words 'dead', 'complete', 'no-feeling' etc.  It doesn't hurt becuase there is no feeling.

Then I have areas that feel like there is a sock over it or more like it has been shot with novacaine.  The parts that aren't numb hurt.

Red

[essdipity]

This is interesting to me because my right foot and lower leg are still quite swollen in healing from the major fracture I've had. I told the doctor the other day that my toes and foot are kind of numb, as though I were feeling them through a rather heavy stocking, and I know that's how neuro conditions also present sometimes.

He said that yes, that can be one cause, but the more likely one is that the fluid from the swelling is in the top of my foot, so I really am feeling it through 'layers.' Anyone here who has swelling from whatever cause might want to consider this situation.

ess

[anon07072023]

Hi,

I have 2 different types that I experience.
The first one is kind of like a numb, tingling, pinprick sensation.
The other one I get on my feet off and on.  It feels like my foot is enlarged / swollen - like your lip does when you go to a dentist. This one is more intense and like I can't really feel anything on it.  

-Kelly  

[jujuminx]

With my first two relapses, the numbness was just really a loss of sensation on the outter portion of my left hip and leg (all the way down to the foot).  Not really tingling, but numb as in not feeling everything I knew I should be feeling.

The third relapse last year was more intense.  I guess you could describe it as an angry numbness/tingling/tightness feeling.  It got pretty intense at times. The blood pressure cuff description comes pretty close to some of those sensations.

Fortunately, all that has faded but the memory is what keeps me taking excellent care of myself. I want to delay it coming back for as long as I can.

Julie

[jumpinjiminy]

Mine was in my foot for about a month and a half. When I stood on my foot, it felt like part of it was missing - just not there. That is one kind of numbness.

The other kind was in my hands and forearms like as described above, but without the painful prickling you get when the pressure is relieved on the nerve. It was more of a numb, tingly, dead, swollen, feeling. That used to happen in the mornings when I'd wake up. After going on the prednisone, it's gone now.

[angelbum31]

thats a brillant way to decribe it thanks j

[twist330]

I have found myself explaining it as if I am have my blood pressure taken when the cuff get inflated and tight, so it's like a preasure. I guess that comes close to your swollen feeling. I get it in my all my limbs.

I can use all my limbs which helps restore the feeling to some point but then they burn. The momment I sit down the complete feeling of pressure returns.

I often feel I have difficulty describing how symptoms feel to Doctors.