Please, FOLLOW UP, PEOPLE!!

[justginny]

Ive gone through this list from 2008 through 2010 and have found a number of comments from people saying "I'm having this procedure or that surgery soon and I will tell you what happens!"  BUT THEY DON'T!!!  That leads me to wonder if they died or maybe they got better and just forgot to follow up.  It's frustrating.  Isn't there a moderator over these forums who can send emails to these people to make sure they are ok?

I was diagnosed almost 2 yrs ago with low Vit. D ( it was 8.4 which is critically low!)  I was also put back on thyroid med after a few years being off (long story.) I was also put on Lansoprazole for GERD, which causes low magnesium levels.

I found two dents side by side at the top front of my scalp the other day.  The area is right where I rest my glasses when not using them to read.  Having a low Vit D can certainly mean softening of bone tissue.  I recently saw a neurologist because of heaviness in my legs and feet along with jitteriness/weakness and the feeling that my knees were going to buckle.  I did fall a few times two days after these symptoms started.  That same day I fell, I went to ER, had a liter of IV fluids for dehydration.  Blood work and urine was checked.  The only abnormal was my thyroid was high, indicating I needed to have my Levothyroxine dose reduced.  

I am a nurse and have been for 22 years and I'm really disgusted with as well as disappointed that the medical profession seems to be so clueless.  I asked my own doctor's nurse practitioner to recheck my Vit D level and she did not.  I'm tired of being shipped off to become the problem of another doctor (in medical-ese it's called a "consult").  I want some answers.  Now after doing research and reading others posts here on several different problems, I'm beginning to wonder about my parathyroid.  

Now, moderator(s) if you please, email me in about a month from now if you don't hear back from me.  Good luck to everyone!  

[justginny]

Hi and thank you for your advice.  I just saw the neurologist's PA today.  It was quite different than the first visit where he took his time and did a thorough assessment.  He checked the dents and said they weren't worth getting worked up about.  He rushed me through today and half listened to me tell him that I'm just about the same as before, still having numbness in my feet after being on them for a while, and still having this fine tremor all over my body hands and feet (my hands especially when I grasp something.)

His answer to all that was that it must be anxiety.  

Anxiety???  What a jerk!  My heart rate would be up if that were the case plus I would feel nervous too and I am not.  

In other words, he is washing his hands of me and calling it dehydration/ exhaustion.  What a waste of my time and money.  When I asked pressed him for a better answer he said "well I could do a nerve conduction test".  If this office were not the only neurology office in town, I'd get the hell out of there and go to someone who digs a little deeper than this.

I'm really angry.

[sarahstevie]

Justginny - what happened?

[Josie1984]

Hi! A few things. The first is an annoying quest, but do you drink coffee? Even one cup can give you trembling. Drip coffee is the strongest and a lot of people make it way to strong by mistake. I love coffee and despite the trembling I keep on drinking it. But counter acting it could be using less grounds. Start with half and also increasing your protein I take at breakfast. Try to get around 20 grams so you're not feeling week with low blow sugar by mid morning.

2nd thing is the tingling in the feet after standing, this would happen to me, especially my bug toes when I worked on my feet in retail all day. Went away once I changed jobs. My dad has the same issue. We're not all built the same and some people have incorrect builds for standing for long periods. However, that is also a symptom of low B12 which is rarely tested for and I think even when it's tested a lot of times goes under the radar because the alarms for deficiency are set too low so they miss deficiencies that aren't in their parameters. Mine was 250 but didn't meet the criteria but I was experiencing tingling hands.

Dehydration will cause your skin to dent more and longer.

[Dr. Kokil Mathur]

Hi!
A dent can develop on forehead due to low vitamin D, and this can be caught on a X-ray too as it will show bony deformity. However, dents can be caused due to many other causes.
A dent can develop due to wrong posture while sleeping or due to something pressing on the forehead. An indentation can develop on the forehead in case of mucocele of paranasal sinuses or scleroderma. Indents or furrows can also develop due to wrinkles. Also when the brows sag, this causes indents on the forehead. If indents are at the top, side or back of head, then they can be due to scarring alopecia or hair loss caused by discoid lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, lichen planopilaris, kerion, metastatic carcinoma, lymphoma, sarcoidosis, prolonged pressure, and cicatricial pemphigus.
Injury can cause indents due to localized collection of blood (hematoma) or due to scarring or due to shift in the adipose (fat) tissue underneath. It is difficult to pinpoint the cause on net. Since a confirmed diagnosis cannot be given on net please discuss these possibilities with your PCP once. You may need to further consult an ENT specialist or a skin specialist or a cosmetologist. Take care!

The medical advice given should not be considered a substitute for medical care provided by a doctor who can examine you. The advice may not be completely correct for you as the doctor cannot examine you and does not know your complete medical history. Hence this reply to your post should only be considered as a guiding line and you must consult your doctor at the earliest for your medical problem.