Disney Doctors - Tingling in right hand and right toe

[DisneyPrince1982]

I have a Dr. appointment in a few weeks to get to the bottom of this but curious if any of you have ever experienced minor tingling/numbness in right hand fingers and right foot toe? It doesn't interfere with anything I do but I can feel it, more so when I'm not moving around.

Any thoughts? From what I've read, diabetes can be a cause but I don't think there is any in the world I have that since I experience almost none of the symptoms associated with it.

 

[sam_gordon]

I'm not a doctor, I don't play one on TV, and I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn last night, but I'm guessing either a pinched nerve or a cut off of blood circulation (like when a body extremity "goes to sleep").

 

[Bec3b1g]

I have neck spasms on my left side and this can sometimes cause tingling in my left fingertips and toes.

 

[DisneyPrince1982]

I'm not a doctor, I don't play one on TV, and I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn last night, but I'm guessing either a pinched nerve or a cut off of blood circulation (like when a body extremity "goes to sleep").

I lift weights a lot, use to do a deadlift and squat, but after numerous times of hurting my back, I retired those exercises, and haven't had any back issues since. However, I'm wondering if perhaps during the last injury (which took about 4 weeks to recover from), I suffered a slipped disc which is potentially pressing up against some nerves?

 

[MIGrandma]

DH had tingling and numbness in his left arm/hand for months. He discussed it with his doctor at his physical and he thought it was just a pinched nerve. The symptoms finally went away.

 

[Turn the Page]

Do you get migraines at all? Sometimes I get numbness or tingling in the extremities before a migraine hits. The worst started out in my left thumb and moved across all my fingers, up my arm, and down the entire left side of my body. I swear my left butt cheek and the left half of my tongue were number. That's a very odd sensation. I thought for sure I had had a stroke or something but it turned out to be a migraine.

 

[DisneyPrince1982]

Do you get migraines at all?

Don't get them at all, maybe once a year.

 

[Mizzoufan]

gout?

 

[DisneyPrince1982]

gout?

Just looked up symptoms. No chance.

 

[Christine]

I'm going to vote that this is a nerve issue due to it being on one side and involves tingling/numbness. Diabetes does cause issues with extremities due to poor circulation and neuropathy but since you have no other symptoms, I doubt this would be the *first* diabetes symptom that would show up unless you had a way of ignoring the earlier signs (and people are darn good at doing that). I also don't think it would be limited to one side in diabetes.

 

[Mizzoufan]

Just looked up symptoms. No chance.

My husband has gout and those are his symptoms. Esp the toe going numb.
Feel better

 

[Madame]

I have bulging/herniated disks x 2. As I type this I haven't been able to feel the toes on my left foot for 6 wks. Unless I want surgery to fuse my disks (or whatever they'd mess with in there), & I don't, I'm going to have to live with it.

Stretching helps to relieve the pressure on my nerves - I lay on my back on the floor, feet elevated on a footstool for 30 mins. If it's really bad, my DH pushes down & out on my hipbones while I'm bent at the waist.

My problems started after my pregnancy with my twins & comes & goes in severity.

 

[DisneyPrince1982]

I have bulging/herniated disks x 2. As I type this I haven't been able to feel the toes on my left foot for 6 wks. Unless I want surgery to fuse my disks (or whatever they'd mess with in there), & I don't, I'm going to have to live with it.

Stretching helps to relieve the pressure on my nerves - I lay on my back on the floor, feet elevated on a footstool for 30 mins. If it's really bad, my DH pushes down & out on my hipbones while I'm bent at the waist.

My problems started after my pregnancy with my twins & comes & goes in severity.

My gut instinct is that it is related to the back injuries I've suffered while lifting. I don't have pain associated with herniated so I'm guessing it's more in the category of a slipped disc. Not sure if that requires surgery or just patience/rest to heal. Nonetheless, my back doesn't hurt at all anymore since I've eliminated the squat/deadlift from my workouts. I'll probably mention this to my doc and have him take a look at my back, something is amiss back there.

 

[NHdisneylover]

That was the first symptom that i had with what was eventually diagnosed as pernicious anemia (very low B-12). For me it was the left side fingers and toes, but I am told it can be either.

The back issues sound very likely to be the culprit though.

 

[DisneyPrince1982]

That was the first symptom that i had with what was eventually diagnosed as pernicious anemia (very low B-12). For me it was the left side fingers and toes, but I am told it can be either.

The back issues sound very likely to be the culprit though.

The B12 thing I suppose is possible. Did you have any symptoms for that?

 

[NHdisneylover]

It was just the tingling for years, which grew to be in larger areas over time, but very slowly. And then eventually I was also having panic attacks and total numbness in my toes whenever thy got a little cold. I'd say the tinglings was just fingers and toes for at least 6 months, then spread slowly into more of my feet, eventually a little in a iine up from my fingers towards my elbow, etc but that was a process of almost 2 years before the panic attacks and numb toes started.

Actually, after I was diagnosed, looking back my "normal for you" fast heart rate and my lack of appetite while not losing weight were symptoms, but I didn't notice how rarely i was hungry until I was being treated and felt hungry again---it was not on my radar at all, the the faster heart rate was not something even doctors attributed to anything other than me being weird.

 

[TLSnell1981]

My gut instinct is that it is related to the back injuries I've suffered while lifting. I don't have pain associated with herniated so I'm guessing it's more in the category of a slipped disc. Not sure if that requires surgery or just patience/rest to heal. Nonetheless, my back doesn't hurt at all anymore since I've eliminated the squat/deadlift from my workouts. I'll probably mention this to my doc and have him take a look at my back, something is amiss back there.

Neck and/or back ...just a guess, based on my own personal experience.