Dizziness, Heaviness and tingling on Left side - especially left arm and ankle

[Blaze01]

For about 3 months now, I have been experiencing dizziness as well as heaviness, tingling sensation, and an overall weak feeling in my left arm mostly, but it also has traveled down the entire left side of my body. I am a 24 yr old healthy female. I went to the ER when it first started and was really bad. My entire left side was tingling, including the left side of my face, my left arm, leg and foot. It only happens on the LEFT side. When I walked it felt like my left ankle was just going to give out on me, it felt really weak. I was also EXREMELY dizzy. I was admitted and these symptoms were strong and lasted for over a day. I was in the hospital for 2 days and they ran a CT scan, an MRI, blood tests, and all came back negative. Gradually my symptoms started to fade. They released me after they had done every test they could think of without knowing what was causing them. Since then my symptoms have been coming and going, but not to the same intensity that they were when I went to the ER. Sometimes I will be fine and then it will just come on slowly and last for a few hours and then fade away. This happens daily if not every other day. It doesn't matter if I'm sitting or standing or being active or inactive, I will just start to feel really dizzy and off balance and then the arm heaviness, and ankle weakness will set in. I am going to an Ear, Nose, and Throat doctor so he can run tests as well. I had an extremely bad ear infection about 6 months ago where my equilibrium was off and I was dizzy. I am hoping it's some kind of virus that can be treated and not something serious like my heart or MS or anything like that. If anyone has had similar symptoms or has been diagnosed with something, PLEASE let me know what you think. I cannot keep going on without getting any answers. There has to be an explaination out there somewhere! Thank you so much for your comments.

[Jecca]

Im having pretty much the same thing. I'm a 24 yr old female. It first started out about 2yrs ago, I was first diagnosed with optic neuritis. Since then Ive had numerous episodes of tingling and numbless. Also had a ton of muscle pain and muscles just jerking. A few months back I awoke from a nap and was totally numb on the right side and extremly weak elsewhere and fatigued. I have had all normal mri's as well as a spinal tap but they havent done any other tests. The dr's are fighting about what it could be. Have seen 2 ms specialists and one felt it was stress and the other thought I was too young. Any ideas?????

[weirdbody]

I'm having similiar trouble.  A little over a year ago, Christmas shopping, my left pinkie started going numb, then up my left arm, down my left leg and into the left side of my face.  My husband thought I was having a stroke, but no other symptoms.  Went to the dr the next day and no stroke but sent me to a neurologist.  MRI was fine and said I was having migraines without the headache.  I had diarrhea a couple of days later and the numbness lasted off and on for a couple of weeks.  Was good for over a year until a couple of days ago.  Same thing, left side tingling and moving around the left side only.  Then again today a couple days after the tingling/numbness started I have diarrhea again.  Any ideas you have I would appreciate!  

Very frustrated!

[rosebud157]

I woke up yesterday with a tingling sensation on the left side of my head and left hand. Today I woke up my entire head and face and lips are tingling my neck is tight my head feels like it is to heavy for my neck. Sometime when I awake my speech is slurred and I can't think.  I have also had trouble with my balance. What is going? This has been going sense 2005 and the doctors can't tell me anything. I have had MRI, CT Spinal tap and blood work.

[sbompart]

My daughter is having some of the same problems, dizzyness,numbness, weird feelings tingling sensations all over she is now practically bedridden all of the time, I have to assist her when she needs to go to the bathroom. One of the biggest problems she is experiencing,is when she tries to sit or stand she becomes very dizzy and she feels like she is about to pass out,she tells me that she get this funny sensation that begins in her stomach and travels to her head that causes her to be dizzy and she falls if I am not there to help her, she calls these sensations attacks. She stays in her darkened room because she is very light sensative,she also experiences a vrooming noisein her ear most of the time, she never feels good any more. There are more symtems but I cannot think of them right now. If any one can help Please email me @ carmen_flournoy***@**** In March she did go to the hospital they ran some test that was negative,like the MRI ect

[kirk840]

hi there people do you lot use computers often and do you ever excise somtimes this can cause dizzness tingleing in head arms or every where on your body

[dodo84]

I was looking for an explanation of the cold-burning sensation that I have on the side of my left hand from the hand joint up to the middle of the upper arm. I have this sensation since November but my real problems started 4-5 years ago with my left leg.
Your symptoms are much more severe and more complicated than mine. The only similarities will be on the side. I feel some times coldness on the side and tingling and numbness on the plantar of my left leg. When I was sitting down and I put pressure on the nerve it started to bother me, it got numb. I couldn’t even have my laptop in my lap, that’s how sensitive I was to any pressure. If I stood up, nothing! Few months ago I started to have tingling on the plantar. I also felt that my calf got swollen sometimes.
Tired of having absolutely all kind of investigations that the western medicine can think of: X-rays of my entire spinal cord, MRI, CAT scan, nerves tested, DOPPLER on venous and arterial circulation and everything being fine, I got mad and went to a nutritionist. I find out that I have a lack of vitamins B, Calcium and Magnesium and other minerals and vitamins deficiencies. The complex of vit.B plays a roll in the nerves good function along with calcium and magnesium.
I intend to find a doctor that is practicing Eastern medicine and acupuncture. I went to LA for a week and have two appointments with a Korean doctor. After his treatment I felt great. When I left, he put eight needles on my back on the heap area, on the tract of the sciatic nerve and asked me to keep them as long as I could, the most, for a week. The needles have tape on top and didn’t bother me at all. I am a little bit better now but I have to find another doctor here to continue.
In conclusion, switch gears! Try Eastern medicine & nutrition; search how to cure the cause not to treat the effect. It is scary how many of you have similar symptoms! Sad that not good diagnostician is reading all these.
Good luck and don’t give up!