tingling buzzing sensation in hands and feet.

[steveo007]

I'm a 35 year old male from the UK in otherwise good
health.
About 3 months ago I started having some weird symptoms/sensations.
Firstly, I noticed a slight tremor in my left thumb, it only lasted a few seconds and I put this down to fatigue, as I'd been working out with weights. For some weeks after this my left hand felt tired and shakey, but without any loss of strength or actually shaking.
I then started to experience intermitant sensations of what I can only describe as light numbness and pins and needles in both my hands and feet, but primarily on my left sided extremeties.I would also occassionaly get these sensations on a small area of my left thigh.These sensations regularly come and go, but last seconds rather than minutes/hours.
In recent weeks the light numbness seems to have subsided but I have noticed that I regularly wake up
during the night with either hand completely numb.This is rectified in seconds by wiggling my fingers, but the effected hand is left feeling weak for a couple of hours.I have also noticed a strange
buzzing sensation under my left foot, that I can only describe as if someone was holding vibrating mobile phone against it.
I have been to see my GP who seems to think stress or anxiety.Basic blood tests have come back normal.
I apologise for the length of this post, but I would
much appreciate any thoughts or advice as the where I go now.
1)does anybody know, statistically, how likely these
symptoms are to be caused by some serious disorder ie ms.
2)Does stress/anxiety seem a feesible cause.
3)These symptoms are very light and the worry of what they might be is causing much more of a problem than the actual sensations. With this in mind, do you think it might be better to just live with these things and see if they die down of their own accord.
Many thanks in advance.  

[sandraswiet]

Very good response! I am all alone in a new city and experiencing lightness of my hands and knees, no pain i can still grip things and I think its mostly motivated by stress. your response made me feel so much better!

Thank you!

[kirstyanne]

i have a similar thing and im pregnant its circulation and also could be pinching a nerve somewhere. best way to tell if you see white dots on your skin your circulation is bad also if u suffer with siatica like i do this can happen to. :)

[Celtics9]

Can you please tell me if you have come to any conclusion. PLEASE

[Cathead]

With B6, I meant that my body DOESN'T need. took too much.

[Cathead]

Like a lot of you, I've had tingling hands and feet. Slight vibration. And numbness with outside fingers at night. Here's what I think I've boiled it down to--after having blood, nerve tests, reading all the stuff on the Internet, getting through my "I'm gonna die of MS or ALS" panic, etc.

1. Stress. It adds a ton. It exacerbates all the symptoms. PTSD is a real thing. Anxiety is real. It all impacts our breathing, whether your concious of it or not. Catch yourself sometime when you are anxious. Feel your body tension and make note of your breathing. I bet it's either labored or extremely shallow. Breathing impacts O2/CO2 mix in blood. That impacts PH balance. PH impacts nerve senstaions.

2. Caffeine. I love coffee. I cut it out. Not sure if it's the caffeine or not.

3. Sulfites in wine. Got a couple of cases of 2 buck chuck over the past couple of months. It coincided with my symptoms. Might be the sulfites toxins.

4. Ergonomic. I think this is the biggest one for me. I spent the last 3 months in various coffee shops plowing away on my laptop. How do I sit? Forearms resting on the edge of the table for hours at an end. That's right where the ulnar nerve runs. EMG test showed some slow nerve condcution near the elbows. I've compressed that nerve and pissed it off. Hence tingling in hands and numb fingers at night. While sitting I also cross my feet under the chair at the ankles. When they get tired I switch one foot on top of the other. That's right where the nerves in the feet run. Again, pissed off nerves result in tingling feet.

5. Night time sleeping  position. Google it and read how to use pillows correctly to support your spine.

6. I jumped into the supplements. Added a B-50 complex. That's 2500% of B6 that my body needs. B6 toxicity pisses off the nerves. I cut all the supplements out. I don't take them when I'm healthy. I'm 50 M and in great shape. Been exercising all my life and eat well. I get all the V&M I need from my diet. Supplements may overload me when I don't need them.

7. Dental filling. Had a lot of them as a kid and adult. Now they are naturally switching over to crowns. Just got rid of one that had a crack in the tooth. All symptoms subsided for about 3 days.

I'm not sure which of the above is helping me the most. But I'm doing all of them or switching so I'm no longer irritating the nerves and my symptoms have improved a ton. I have a Lyrica script from my doc that I've been sitting on for a couple weeks. If my improvement halts and goes backward, I'll try that. But I'd rather not. My body knows what is best. I haven't given it the respect to work with it. So that's my plan.

[f8hope]

I am happy I read this, I am having the same symptoms but they didn't start until after I had my 3 child. I strongly feel I had pstd from my birth as several issues came up, and my little one had to be in the nicu for 4 days. Since then my anxiety has been through the roof. I had palpitations and a severe panic attack that landed me into the er about 2 months after my delivery, only to have them say it was anxiety and that my potassium was low, which causes irregular heart beat, which causes anxiety to increase more so it was a viscious cycle, however, ever since then I have been so worried about every little sensation. I have not followed up with a doctor but I have always been healthy and palpitaitons and anxiety are heavily present in my family.

I have been so worried about little sensation and I have convinced myself that it is ms, even the other day I was drying off from my shower and I felt a my foot having a cold tingling sensation and I freaked out thinking for sure it was another nerve symptom only to find out it was just the faucet wasn't turned off all the way and some cold water was splashing into the tub and on my foot. My stress is high today and so my legs and everything just feel weird, then I grab a magazine to relax and guess what article was in it? A story about a marriage surviving through an ms diagnosis. I had to force myself to put it down becuase I feel like I have a massive obsession about it now. I am going to be following up with a doctor just to talk to them but everyone that I have talked to are convinced it is anxiety, and it makes sense because I am worried about every little thing now. So I am glad that someone else started having the same symptoms after a traumatic delivery.