anyone experience post partum numbness/tingling in hands and feet?
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I am 5 months post partum and have been having numbness and tingling in my hands and feet - anyone else deal with this? i did have some pretty significant tingling while i was pregnant too but it had gone away. wondering if this is something i need to worry about or one of those things i should ride out. thanks for your help!
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Anonymous
| Did it stop and come back or it's constant since pregnancy? |
Anonymous
| stopped and came back. mostly was in my arms/hands during pregnancy, now just hands and feet/calves |
Anonymous
| Are you nursing? My OB said the tingling/numbness in my feet would probably stop after nursing and my body's hormones got back to normal and she was right. About 3 months after my period started again it all went away. |
Anonymous
| YES!! particularly in my feet. it's just starting to go away 7 months post partum. i didn't nurse for very long either. |
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| I don't want to alarm you - but you should definitely talk to your doctor and possibly ask for a brain MRI to be on the safe side. |
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| I am having numbness in my hands at 5 months pp and I am still nursing. It usually happens when I'm sleeping. Weird. |
Anonymous
| get checked for carpal tunnel. |
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| Go see a doctor. Some autoimmune dissorders are like this |
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@13:20--that's probably carpal tunnel, like the PP said. You can buy wrist braces at any drug store that will keep you from curling your wrists inward nd prevent the numbness.
@OP--I'll second the recommendations to talk to your doctor and perhaps have an MRI. MS is often diagnosed shortly in women after giving birth when previously mild/infrequent symptoms flare up. I don't want to alarm you, either, but it is worth ruling out. |
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| Thanks for your replies. I realize MS can present like this - so I'm trying NOT to completely freak out. For those of you who did experience this and it went away - were the symptoms constant or intermittent? Did they seem related to movement at all or just random? I'm trying to decide who, if anyone, to see about this. I don't really have a good GP but it seems a bit premature to run to the neurologist. |
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| MS is extremely rare. Numbness and tingling are extremely common. I would try to find a good GP and discuss with them, but I really would not panic about this. |
Anonymous
| 6 mos PP and happening to me too. This happened for a long time after my first and I got the whole enchilada of brain scans, some electric shock test on my muscles (which hurt like a b****), got tested for all sorts of auto immune stuff and nothing. It finally went away when he was like 18 mos or something, but it will make you feel better if you go see a doc. |
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Mine was intermittent. I ended up having Celiac disease. There are many things that present this way. |
Anonymous
| I am 7 months post partum and having numbness in my fingertips and tingling in my heels. I have been to the GP and had a battery of blood test done...all normal. Also have been to the neurologist and had a MRI done which also came back normal. I am very nervous about a MS diagnoses...The doctor told me it is anxiety, as my baby was premature (32 weeks). I dont know where to go from here...any help would be appreciated. |