Pinch or fold in the stomach area?

[DarrenAu]

A while ago whilst researching pins and needles to the legs I came across a condition in those who like me are overweight and carry weight around the stomach. It talked about the weight in this area causing a 'pinch' or fold to either a nerve or some other tube to the side of the stomach which can only really be prevented by losing weight.
Does this ring a bell with anybody? I can't for the life of me find anything online about this and I can't recall whether it was a nerve or a blood vessell or something else that gets folded over, but it's somewhere on the side of the stomach area.

 

[Antje77]

Does this ring a bell with anybody?

Meralgia paresthetica is what you were looking for I think.
It can cause numbness, pain, pins and needles and or itching in a specific area of the skin on the upper outer thigh.
Happens to me when standing or walking for a while, sometimes only after a longer while, sometimes after a couple of minutes. The feeling in my skin returns to normal as soon as I sit down.
For me. it's thankfully only numbness, which is annoying but nothing worse. I'm not worried about it.

A while ago whilst researching pins and needles to the legs

It really affects only a specific area in the upper thigh, so pins and needles anywhere else in the leg are not caused by this.

 

[DarrenAu]

Oh yes that's it, thanks!
I have a permenant dead patch on one thigh which came of suddenly. It's on my left thigh, just above the knee on the side about the size of a hand. It doesn't annoy me much to be honest, but I think a cortoze injection was suggested to help fix it.

 

[Antje77]

It doesn't annoy me much to be honest, but I think a cortoze injection was suggested to help fix it.

If it doesn't really bother you I'd think twice before taking the injection. Those injections tend to make blood glucose rise pretty high for days!