I have had 3 episodes in the past 6 months that had tingling and numbness. My children and husband and I are in Egypt and are not planning on returning to the US until Feb of 2010. I am trying to figure out if I need to return earlier to see a neurologist. WE have been to the hospital private and public more than once but I do not have much confidence in the attention to detail and quality of care here in Egypt. ANy advice would be helpful. The one thing that they did do was a CBC and all of the levels were normal. Below I have outlined what I experienced.
First I should should say that I have had lower back pain as long as I can remember at least since I was 15 now I am 27, the pain has been something that I feel daily since i had my second child two years ago.
Late March,2009
I was sitting in class 8am I had eaten my normal breakfast and it was not hot weather yet.
I couldnt really focus on what the teacher was writing on the bord. then I felt my right thumb go numb and then my right
upper lip at that point I turned to my friend and told her what I was feeling and that i should see a doctor, within 5min
the numbness was gone but I was extremely week in my whole body. Doc didnt seem concerend wanted to get my fasting blood sugar
(which came out normal).I had been taking lo-ogesteral (birth control) for almost a month. Stopped taking
the birth control. Also generally allways exausted also lower back pain daily
June 2009 It is extremely hot and humid, all day for the past couple of days my feet feel tingly and thick, I sit down eat lunch
and put my feet up on a chair to try and get the feeling in my feet to go away its not working so I lay down ...still no improvement so I sit up then
I get a rush of numbness followed by thickenss through my whole body, generlly weak afterwords my friend who is a doctor came to see me she said she didnt see anything alarming
and it is probably the heat and low blood sugar. also allwasy exahsted thinking its the heat and just being here in Egypt. also back pain daily
Aug 18th 2009
I was sitting on the couch with my feet up on the coffee table studying i start getting strange feelings in my lips and right arm of thickness and slight tingling with some heavy breathing.
this comes and goes about every 5 min for 20 min lasting each time for maybe two min. notice that when my feet are on the table my feet get a little tingle. after that generaly week but especally week in my right arm and hand
sit down to eat again my legs parralel (on the bed) and start feeling that I cant feel the food on the top of my tonuqe, my tonge felt thick in the back of throat, and my lower jaw is more work than normal to control, this comes and geos twice the last time lasted five minutes
Also it was also more work than normal to keep my mouth closed like my bottom jaw was to heavy. it was not hot as we now have air conditioning and I hadnt really deviated form my day to day meal times . Also have been havong lots of lower back pain.
Also about three weeks ago noticed that all of a sudden things down the hallway looked burry and have gotten glasses.paying attention to how i feel today (aug 19th) i notice that quite often doing reular activities my hands feel tingly...also generllly tired all day sometimes I feel like I cant turn my brain on, last night after my "episode" I was feeling week and noticed
that whenI tried to talk to my husband at a normal pace I couldn't make my mouth move as fast as usually to get the words out.
Thanks for any advice


