Why Was I Asked About Tingles?

[theshadowoftheliving]

I second what everyone says about seeing a medical doctor.

I've had some really weird neurological symptoms over the years that still aren't resolved. Tingling is one of them. What seems to help is yoga - I think that I tend to stay pretty tense (hypervigilance, yeah?) and stretching out is a huge help.

Keep searching for answers and help. I gave up, but I don't think that's the right solution.

 

[Powder]

I experienced the pins and needles feeling of the limbs returning from being numb/asleep as a child during "the hell years" and thereafter. This resolved a lot after the teen years of lower stress (sounds funny to say this, I want to laugh but my life has been the opposite of normal.) :O_o::joyful: I will always see my teen years as the best of times, and this is also when I met my spouse/best friend.

This week, I've had massive fatigue, dissociative switching (minor Flashbacks) and the legs numbing and tingling in turns.

In my case, it happens with hormone flux, but that also triggers state-dependent dissociative stuff, which could in turn bring flashbacks and the tingling may just be what I felt at the time.

My T said that if you're having a flashback, and you dissociated to complete blackout during the trauma remembered, you will do so again during the flashback.
Or whatever level of response. Your body basically follows what it did back then, fight, flight, freeze, scream, etc.

She recommended to use cold (water, air) and aromatherapy or beenie babies or smooth stones or keys to jingle, breathing, and moving around or squatting to ground.

Yoga is grounding, in moderation, and I also recommend that, especially for me to do at home, not in a class.

 

[Sideways]

@theshadowoftheliving - actually yoga being helpful isn't weird at all (go figure!).

Muscles and tendons getting over-used (hypervigance for us ptsd folk) is a really common cause of neuropathy (like pins and needles right through to a burning sensation and extreme pain).

Muscle spasm from tense muscles in the neck? Enter everyday tension headache (at the front of your head) from muscles tightening around the nerves in the back of your neck. Similarly, tendons swelling in the wrist due to work involving constant use of or vibration through the hands? Carpal tunnel syndrome.

So if you're in a fairly constant state of stress, alert or hypervigilance, exercise like yoga that stretches and releases muscles and tendons is really awesome!!

 

[lostforgottensoul]

I was diagnosed with PTSD among Asperger's and BoPD (Borderline Personality Disorder).

Maybe part of Asperger's? Could also be part of disocissation or flashbacks but im unsure as the tingles i feel are from my physical back injury, not my mental state. But i do have a lot of physical symptoms that follow my mental state and didnt get claimed as such until all medical tests ruled out everything else possible. So could be that too?

Id def ask as i have PTSD & BPD and dont experience that so its not like something where a therapist can predict that.