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whole left-side of body numb & tingly

G0ldengirl68

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Grants Pass, Oregon
Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Diet only
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moved to my Home-State, so happy to be back and have my much-loved 4 Seasons again. Did not like the almost constant, icy winds off the ocean, and lack of shopping options (groceries and other). Did a lot of shopping online and finally gave up on any clothes shopping ;)
since 5:30 a.m. this morning. It is now 5;35 my time. Ambulance came and got me, had 2 cat-scan and 1 xray,mri sceduled this week can't type or think good. no cause found so far. maybe's are

t2
anxiety/stress
my thought, maderna vaccine. last shot june 2nd

i'm scared, denise

been on my keto, havent done anything weird, maybe overworked myself. anyone have this happen?
 
Oh my, I understand this is very scary!
Are you in the hospital now or at home?
Wish you all the best, hope you'll feel better soon!
 
Antje77 said:
Oh my, I understand this is very scary!
Are you in the hospital now or at home?
Wish you all the best, hope you'll feel better soon!
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HI @Antje77 I appreciate your reply, I am home thank goodness, but you know you wish they found a cause, but they are still swamped and did what they could.

I will keep digging for answers online and really just hope it goes away. I appreciate this forum, and I do admit I am into alternative medicines even though I have a nice MD, he is more about a pill to fix things. If forgot to mention my blood pressure was runnign higher about 170, down to 154. My doc has pushed me to be on
BP medicine but take my own BP and mostly good.

I'm always hopeing someone has experience similar and found their way through it. I want to wake up and it will be gone.

Here's how it progressed, first my left arm, then my led and my gut area on left side was the hardest or the numbness and heavy. Thats where I've told them over and over i feel I have an enlarge organ but they can't see it with their present tests. maybe the MRI wills show more I hope, Denise

My brain isn't functioning as well, and some aphasia. I mention it, tell them, but it's almost as if it's beyond their education so they ignore me. its hard to typ for example.
 
G0ldengirl68 said:
HI @Antje77 I appreciate your reply, I am home thank goodness, but you know you wish they found a cause, but they are still swamped and did what they could.
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This sounds like they did all the tests to rule out TIA, which would be my first fear with those symptoms.
However, I wouldn't hesitate to keep nagging them with your worries and symptoms if they persist!
 
Stay positive: in my experience, doctors aren't always that knowledgeable on diabetes, but they are very good with strokes and heart issues. If it's not a mini-stroke, and they can't find what it is, that's quite likely to be a good sign- they would hopefully be able to flag it straight away should it be one of the immediate threats.
 
Antje77 said:
This sounds like they did all the tests to rule out TIA, which would be my first fear with those symptoms.
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Agreed, that was my first thought too, so it's good that they've ruled that out. Virtual hugs to you @G0ldengirl68 , the fact that they've sent you home is also good, as if they thought it was really serious they'd probably keep you in.
 
I’m not sure they can rule out a TIA, for example. Last July I suddenly felt like my left arm had been plunged into warm water, if I remember correctly my hand also started kind of moving and I couldn’t stop it, I can only describe it as a Jim Carey movie but rather “the mask” it would be “the glove”. When I stood up, the imaginary water flushed from my arm and down the left side of my torso, followed by slight confusion and weakness, eventually took myself to hospital, they did CT scan, MRI, ECG, full physical etc etc, they were pretty amazing, They found absolutely nothing! No damage to my brain, no signs of anything. I have however been diagnosed and treated as having a TIA because they said it was text book. I now take statins because I have narrow veins in my neck or something so I’m much more likely to have a big stroke apparently. Sorry boring story.
 
A friend had 3 similar episodes over a number of years without TIAs actually being diagnosed. He turned out to have a rare condition called haemorrhagic migraine.
 

A neighbour of our has been experiencing similar things to you for the last couple of months. Hers started before she had any COVID Vaccines and she is confirmed as not having diabetes.

Thus far, despite a raft of tests including various MRI and an neurological referral, nothing has been diagnosed. She is slowly regaining the use of her affects arm. Her leg normalised relatively quickly.

I feel certain our neighbour shares your concerns and worry, and is also becoming increasingly frustrated by her predicament. She hasn't been told not to drive, but she doesn't feel safe to do so, with her am still far from right.

Fingers crossed for you, and I will be very interested to hear of your outcome. I'm also off to Google haemorrhagic migraine, as mentioned by @Dr Snoddy .
 
I’m sorry I don’t have any personal knowledge to share but glad to hear you’re home and recovering — rest as best you can, and hopefully they’ll have some answers and your symptoms will improve soon.
 
thank you to everyone, this a.m. my numbness is 1/2 gone I'll just say, but it started to disappear at about 7:30 or 8 pm while talking to my sister. I feel weak still, probably more from the stress of it all. The only thing I've like this before was what I think they called a hemoplegic migraine, Aura, numbness in left arm, and left side of face include, mouth and tongue.. I t only lasts about 5 or less minutes. I told the EMTs and the hospital but don't know if they "heard" me. I'll repeat it to my doctor this week, hopefully I will get to talk to him. I'm trying, left a message for his nurse.

I am grateful for everyone's response and it was all encouraging. I hope to get to the bottom of it, but may end up getting referred to another doctor/specialist. Funny I thought of stroke too, and of course wanted my pacemaker, and heart checked out which they did the EKG as well. I know I was overworked, I mean "I" overworked myself up camping 3 days 2 nights. I won't do that again. Seems I was stressed out the whole time and could only relax short periods. I was eating Keto, but not on my regular schedule. There were Yellow Jackets everywhere, tree sap on my little dogs feet I had to keep her tied or in her play pen unless we were walking. Also 94 first day, hot the next, but early cooling from clouds. A lot more to the story I didn't have energy to wrote plus my brain was weird, and left had all numb to type.

My friends and neighbors up camping packed all my things up in my truck, and my Mimmie dog, and drove it all down 36 miles down the river to me. Good people, I was lucky to be camping near them
 
Dr Snoddy said:
A friend had 3 similar episodes over a number of years without TIAs actually being diagnosed. He turned out to have a rare condition called haemorrhagic migraine.
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Hi @Dr Snoddy, This is a definite possibility. I've had migraine since I was a child. Full-blown warning signs, aura/numbness, then pain and aphasia. I was told or read years ago that they are related to strokes in women. My brother also gets them though. Yesterdays issue didn't come with any warnings and no pain in one temple or the other.

I don't know anything for sure, but I am telling my doctor ALL you can be sure, not that anything can be done about it. Our hospital has a bad reputation, and many patients (beyond their level of provided care) are flown out to cities like Santa Rosa, CA and sometimes Medford Oregon. The doctor on duty told me that they were limited in tests they could run. I don't know if that was because of my insurance or their available testing equipment. I've been trying to move to better area, if there is such a thing, but for now, I'm rather stuck here, trying to basically take care of myself with nutrition and exercise.
 
I too have full aura migraine and for most of my life they had a totally predictable pattern. In the last couple of years I’ve had several atypical ones. Twice being sent to hospital suspected of strokes. These had longer lasting and more extensive numbness and less severe headaches than my usual. In the same time frame several other nerve issues unattributed to anything else. Despite mri and nerve conduction studies and two different consultants no conclusion was reached other than to be told migraine can change in menopause and “stress” both mental and physical can cause a “functional nerve disorder” which is a catch all for nerve issues we don’t understand that don’t show anything on tests.

Keep pushing though and hopefully you’ll get some clearer answers. The best news is that it doesn’t appear to have been a stroke.
 
That sounds so like mine as I was growing up, same pattern same amount of time for Aura to pass over my vision, then the left arm numbness, then the headache. I am so glad you shared your experience HSSS because that somehow made me feel less afraid, but also, really seems to be the answer to what happened to me. Different yes, but after I had posted, maybe an hour or so, I began having pain (migraine pain) in my right temple. I took my Imitrex because I felt it might help with the numbness. I'm mainly to take it at first sign of migraine, but it also says I can take it if/when NSAID doesn't work.

It doesn't seem to be a stroke, since something surely would have shown on the tests, but I won't rule it out. I don't feel myself today, I mean besides the numbness that is persisting. But I think it will run it's course as I am starting to believe this definitely goes with what you said about the pattern changing with your migraines. Strange that no one can discover a cure for this or that, and they just move onto something else. What I hear, even though they don't say it, is we can't help you, just go live with it.

We all have to do that with so many issues it makes me wonder why so much money is blown on things that are less important than people's health
 
Mine too were/are visual disturbances for maybe 30 mins, a brief recovery then numbness in any part of one side of my body but usually including my hand and face for another half hour another brief recovery then extreme unbearable headache and nausea along with extreme light sensitivity and some aphasia. Sometimes vomiting. The visual disturbances are a bit different and sometimes stop there now. The numbness can now last hours and on one occasion days. The migraines now last 2 or 3 days rather than half a day, always bedridden. The “hangover” after is much worse now than it used to be and I’m really off colour for a day or two afterwards. I take prescription medication as soon as the visual disturbances start but it’s becoming less effective. I also take an nsaid at the same time. They also seem to come in batches for a few months then ease off and repeat. I hate that I no longer understand them and find these odd ones much more frightening. Going low carb didn’t improve things and in fact these changes have occurred since t2 and low carb started. Hopefully in spite of it not because of it.
 
Remembering that the medics are ruling out serious other diagnoses, I too was reading and thinking migraine. I get numbness and visual disturbances. I too think stroke but it turns out to be migraine. If my migraine medication and/or a sleep in a dark room resolves then I know it was. I also listen to my body telling me its stressed (or, perversely, that my stress has stopped - I often got them at weekends
 
The "hangover" how can I forget that, and yes, I used to get them and for sure, the pain would drive me to nausea and throwing up. Today I just vegged out and slept in between taking itti bitti dog out, and having a bite to eat. I am feeling slight progress in less numbness but it's slow progress.

I was set to take an MRI, just need to sign a release form so a nurse called me. It's a good thing I was asked some of the same questions by her. When she asked if I had any surgeries, I of course told her, as I did the doctor that ordered the MRI, that I was on my 3rd pacemaker. She then said "Oh, you can't have an MRI if you have a pacemaker". I'm glad she was on the ball.

I'm hoping for both of us HSSS, and all the others like us with Migraine that something will come along to stop these things from raising their ugly heads!
 
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