Body heating up & dizziness!

Yesterday I was at the video store when out of nowhere I started getting dizzy and my neck started tingling it shot down my spine, my legs felt tingling and my arms and shoulders have this tingling burning feeling. I sometimes get a metalic taste in my mouth and sometimes into foam but not much. This just happened to me yesterday, I haven't had it in about two years. In the past it sometimes gets so bad that my whole body starts to heat up inside, I know for a fact this is not anxiety in any way shape or form because I'm not in any state of panic when it happens. Has anyone else been through this I went to the hospital and they're telling me that all my vitals are normal and my blood work came back normal as well. I'm so puzzled by these unwanted feelings, any input would be grateful. God bless you all.

James

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hi james

by jessie - 2009-12-14 04:12:19

i know i sometimes have burning pain in my leg or hip. i attribute it to nerve endings from prior surgeries years ago. that is all i can say and i just ignore it and it goes quickly. i know that some people suffer from this from lying in one spot say in icu during a critical illness. very weird but i have ahd people tell me this. hope it gets figured out. merry christmas james jessie

God Bless You ~ ~

by Carolyn65 - 2009-12-14 04:12:35

This must make you miserable. I have never known anyone who has had these symptoms for any reason.

You will be on our prayer list that this goes away and you and yours have HAPPY HOLIDAYS and a BETTER 2010, Carolyn G. in TEXAS ( :


Hey, Bro!

by ela-girl - 2009-12-14 04:12:51

Sorry to hear that you are having these types of episodes. I wish I could help you out on this one, but I can't! Please keep us informed...

Happy Holiday Pacing!
ela-girl

My 2 cents worth......

by Pookie - 2009-12-14 06:12:56

Hi.

Sorry to hear of the event you had to endure.

My first stop would be to the Neurologist's office.

And I'd be asking for a Tilt Table Test too.

And I'd be asking for what I call the Sweat test...I can find out the proper name if you wish.

I'm guessing....but you could have what they call an Autonomic Neuropathy. I have it and all kinds of weird things happen to me. The proper name of the sweat test starts with Thermo.

Hope this helps.

Pookie

Thanks

by Christmmpace - 2009-12-14 11:12:14

I appreciate all your input and your concerns bring my heart to a great place. Knowing I have someone to turn to when things get serious. It's sometime so much easier to just click at the next post but yet you guys never fail to respond to me and my concerns. I'm forever grateful of your warm and caring hearts. Thank you so much and God bless you.

James

Thank you all

by Christmmpace - 2009-12-14 11:12:15

I'm grateful to all your input, Pookie I will look into these test your talking about. I have appointment next week with neurologist's. Does this happen to you as well Pookie?

Thank you
James

Anxiety

by ElectricFrank - 2009-12-15 01:12:34

I'm not saying that you are experiencing anxiety attacks, but just keep this in mind: It is the nature of anxiety attacks that they are experienced as something else. Typical symptoms are light headedness, shortness of breath, tingling, pressure in chest, irregular heart beat, hot/cold flashes, breaking out in sweat, to name a few.

This is why they are so difficult to work with. Non-drug therapy involves helping the person identify their symptoms as anxiety/panic. Often when the connection is made the problems vanish.

frank

I've got a suggestion James

by lenora - 2009-12-15 02:12:24

Hello James my old friend! I have a suggestion. Have your B12 levels checked as soon as possible. The symptoms you describe can be indicative of a B12 deficiency which is easily corrected with shots and/or dietary supplement pills. You can get all kinds of crazy symptoms when your B12 is low including numbness and tingling, migraines, weakness and irregular heartbeats. The metallic taste could be part of that whole thing too. You can get sublingual B12 "dots" that dissolve under your tongue at WalMart and CVS, etc. Can't hurt to try them anyway. No real side effects even if your levels aren't low. Most of us probably are deficient in B12. Let us know what happens. Much love, Lenora

LENORA WOW

by Christmmpace - 2009-12-15 05:12:45

YOUR BACK, that's great! I'm so happy to hear from you dear friend. You always been a great person and always posted a lot of great comment on all my postings. What a blessing to know your alive and well I hope. I've wrote to you from time to time and I never heard from you, I'm sorry but there were times I just thought the worse of your absence, BUT, your here and alive and well I'm hoping. I thank the Lord for you and many prayers went out for you from my heart to the Lord above. How's your family doing my friend? Take care and thanks for the great advice about vitamin B12.

God bless you
James

hot flashes

by annaelliott76 - 2009-12-15 09:12:34

The hot flashes are what started this journey for the past year or so for me... and tingling and dizziness. I would go to the ER and my vitals were fine. Dr. told me it was stress considering the job I had and gave me Xanax. I would sweat for no reason. On my commute, I started getting worried because I would get a little dizzy when I drove, especially on steep bridges. As this continued, I kept going to the doctor telling them some thing else was wrong. They tested hormones and thyroid and every other stupid thing they could think of. Nothing. One day I nearly passed out driving. In the ER, the staff of course missed it, but I saw my HR drop into the 50s just for a moment. I went to the ER 5x that week with rates as high as 142, but normal when I actually got there. I thought I was losing my mind! They sent me home and I started tracking and keeping logs which I brought to my GP. He finally caught on enough to send me for a cardio work up. The bradycardia wasn't seen on any tests, but tach to 189 was, but ignored. Cardio told me it was stress and gave me Xanax. I drove straight to another cardio for a second opinion. This one caught hereditary cholesterol, and the high rates, but wanted to wait and see for awhile. The only test that had not been done was a tilt table. I have no paitence, so I didn't wait and got myself to an EP. He did a tilt table and I dropped into the 30s in 3 min, without being induced.One of the strongest he's seen. 2 holter monitors and 3 - 30day event monitors did not pick this up.

Long story short, see if your HR is jumping up or you're having BP changes. If you feel this again, take your vitals every couple min to see if there is a pattern. It would only last a few seconds to a couple minutes. the event recorders I had would go off and I would feel the thach sometimes, sometimes I didn't. Ask your Dr. If this continues, do not let up until they have an answer that makes sense. Trust me. It's been a year of crap for me and I just got my PM 4 weeks ago. I'm not going to know how to act to be normal or somewhat normal again.

Hope this helps

Anna

Anna

by Christmmpace - 2009-12-15 11:12:01

Thank you Anna, another friend of mind also suggested that I get a tilt test done as well. I'm heading to the cardiologist next week first thing on Monday. I'm not feeling so well, my fingers, arms and legs are tingling. This happen to me before but much worse I felt like my body was shutting down and NO it was not ANXIETY. Doctor's sometimes don't have answers so they just call it anxiety which is so unfair for us, because those little Xanax pill just makes things worse in the long run. Thank you so much for your input and please keep me informed of what happened with your testings. I truly want to keep up with how your feeling, so please keep in touch. I hope we all get better soon. Thanks again and God bless you and your family.

James

B12

by ElectricFrank - 2009-12-15 11:12:06

Lenora,
You are right on with the comments on B12. About a year and a half ago I was having increasing numbness in my feet and was concerned about an old back problem coming back. I had an appt with a neurosurgeon and he diagnosed the the problem as neuropathy. At the time he said there wasn't a treatment for it.

As always I started researching it on the internet and came up with B12 deficiency as a major cause. Also, found that at my age (79) I likely don't absorb B12 in the intestines which can lead to the deficiency. My doc ridiculed the idea, so I ordered a vial of B12 from a Canadian pharmacy and started giving myself daily injections. It took nearly 3 months before I started seeing improvement. The interesting thing is that there were a number of things that I hadn't noticed that improved as well.

Now the fun part. At my last doctor visit he came up with this "new" thing we should do on my annual checkup..test for B12 and folic acid! I reminded him that he had told me that no one in the US needs to be concerned about B12, so why should we test for it. Seems he now has research showing the problem exists. I guess no one had the problem until they researched it.

frank

WOW

by Christmmpace - 2009-12-15 11:12:15

Nice Frank,
How does one test for B12 deficiency, is there a home test to take, I had blood work done at the hospital but I'm not sure what I should look at to see if my B12 intake is good or bad. I did buy B12 but in tablets, maybe I should get another form? This is great input from everyone here, I really think this was something that needed to be posted for others to learn about B12 and Autonomic Neuropathy which I will be posting more of on my next post. I'm so grateful to all of our wisdom and knowledge of what causes different things in our bodies. Thank you Frank!

James

It's easy to find out

by lenora - 2009-12-16 04:12:22

No, they can just draw blood in the doctor's office to check B12 levels. Even if you're not really low it can't hurt to supplement because B12 is one of those vitamins most people are deficient in due to inadequate diet or the body's inability to process it completely. It's one of those things that's easily fixed thank goodness. I have a severe form of B12 deficency as did my Irish dad and grandfather. It's just my theory but I think a lot of the health problems descendents of the Irish famine have today--heart and blood pressure problems, diabetes, bone and joint problems---are directly traced to the starvation our ancestors endured. Just my theory.... Lenora

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