Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? When your hands are feeling numb. raise them up in the air on either side of your body, as much as you are able for a few minutes each and see if that helps. If it does it is something you can take to your doctor.
I complained to my doctors for over a year that my hands were going numb when I was sleeping on my back with my hands above my head. Don’t know if it had to do with MM? I have heart issues too so who knows.
Good Luck, My best to all!!
I started having my legs go numb while standing for a while when I was a bodyguard, then me, my Dad, my Nephew, and a friend went to the deer lease in West Texas and a very cold front blew through one day. That evening after I dropped everyone else off at their stands and had parked a pretty good ways away from my stand and started walking to my stand I just fell over 3 times while walking without any warning. This was right between Thanksgiving and Christmas. When I went to met my family at a family members house for Christmas dinner I was using a walker. My Dr thought it was a bulged or ruptured disc but wasn't sure why cold weather made it worse, so when the did an MRI thats when the discovered a large tumor on my spine that had my spinal cord shoved to on side inside one of the two vertebrae that were completely covered inside and out by the tumor and was fixing to break my spinal cord. The pressure on the cord was causing the numbness. Luckily they did 12 days straight of an strong radiation that shrunk it to take the pressure off my spinal cord. So technically the numbness was before I was diagnosed and was the reason I was diagnosed too.
My husband has been in the past few years
Did you experience paresthesias (numbness or tingling) in an extremity before your myeloma diagnosis?
Yes, this is actually quite common. Many MyMyelomaTeam members have shared similar experiences. Peripheral neuropathy symptoms like numbness and tingling can appear before a myeloma diagnosis.
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