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Why is it when you go to the Dr . With the same problem numbness in hands and feet  repeatedly and the find nothing  -- Why do they make you feel stupid
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4851940 tn?1515694593
Yes, you can get numbness and tingling from Vitamin B complex deficiency.  

I was treated with that, it didn't work, so they put me on antidepressants for 6 months, that didn't work.  I had a kidney stone that was pressing on nerves causing pins and needles and numbness in my feet.  Dr. said it wasn't their fault the misdiagnosed me because I did not have the typical text book symptoms of having a kidney stone.

Not treating B12 deficiency can also make the memory worse.  It has been recorded that older people with dementia and alzheimers are lacking in the vitamin.  A deficiency in B12 has other symptoms too even causing MS (I have a book on this).  

I have read that a good indictor of lack of B12 is having no moons on your fingernails, the thumb being the last moon to disappar.

I did take the sublinguals for quite a while and did feel better all round, but the moons that had disappeared on some of my fingers never did return.  

Some countries have a high threshhold for lack of B12.  In the UK the level of B12 is much lower for example than in Japan.

I would recommend taking them, but a doctor can  take a blood test for this.
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1756321 tn?1547095325
I had numbness from vitamin B12 deficiency. This deficiency is easy to misdiagnose as doctors don't routinely test for it and labs are too low in most countries which miss a deficiency state. I would recommend sublingual (under the tongue) B12 to see if you improve. Not treating B12 deficiency can result in permanent nerve damage.
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4851940 tn?1515694593
Probably because they do not know what it is and can't be bothered to do the right tests to find out.  When you say they find nothing, what tests have they carried out?

Are you diabetic at all?  With diabetes you can get peripheral nerve damage and this can cause  numbness.

In the feet and hands the problem can stem either from the neck or spinal cord depends where along the spinal cord that nerves are being pinched.

In the hands, it can be from compression of the carpal tunnel.  Usually with someone who has a repetitive job.

It could also be a circulatory problem.  You can also experience numbness from the cold.

I get numbness in my outer thigh and this is meralgia parasthetica which is from pressure on nerves in the groin.  I suffer from numbess in my feet and I was told that it is peripheral nerve damage from diabetes ( I am not even a diabetic).  I have carpal tunnel problems in both hands and will wake up with my hands completely dead.  I can't hold a telephone or cutlery for too long as my hands get numb (this is also from arthritic joints in the hands).

If you feel stupid when you see one of the doctors in your surgery, then go to a different doctor.  They should not make you feel stupid.  This is a real problem.  They need to find out what is causing this problem.  Unfortunately if they do find the cause, in some cases there is not cure or remedy.
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