Hello there,
I've had this strange sensation on top of my left foot in 2006 - when touching the top of the foot, the toes were feeling the touch. Then I had strange pains on the left side of my left foot that got bad enough for me to see a Dr. in 2007. All possible tests came back normal. In the end of 2007 I had slight numbness in my left arm that came and went, so when it was gone I tried not to think about it. In the beginning of 2008 I fainted in the middle of the night and my husband said I was trembling on the floor before coming to consciencousness. That was a time of tremendous stress in my life, I had exercised a lot and the right side of my neck was so strained, I couldn't move my head. I also had a very bad cold. Naturally I saw a dr. - all tests came back normal, except that I was getting more inexplicable symptoms: from twitching of arm muscles, sudden numbness and pins & needles in the left back below shoulder bone, electrical shocks on the face, feeling of fading out coupled with dizziness - vertigo and terrible nausia. The primary sent me to a neuro and asked for an MRI. The brain the T section of spine on MRI came back Normal, the ear test the neuro requested came back normal, except that MRI showed slight bulge of C5-C6 disc. The neuro concluded that was from the disc and sent me to a Physical Therapist. After 5 PT's and more time the symptoms calmed down and didn't go away. The 2nd neuro didn't think it was due to the disc - besides it was on the right side while the symptoms are on the left. Another primary put me on a anti anxiaty drug that somehow calmed me down and most of my very strange feelings like heart palpitations overall stress about my health went away.
all other symptoms stayed with me in much milder form. In 2009, a month ago another neuro looked at my test results and tested for IgM and IgG - all came back negative. I kind of learned to live with the numbness and tingling, but in the last few days my whole left side - from toes to the fingertips - feels not only numb but also very weak. This gets real bad after a 30 min. moderate work out on the treadmill but only a couple of days later. The left leg is so weak, the knee buckles when I forget to lean on my right side, my left arm and hand tremble when i type to long (it's time to hang my arm to rest).....I learned on line about CIDP, Does anyone know anything about this disorder? Any suggestions? any experiences?????? please help.