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Menopause? Arms, hands, legs and feet numbness

Are these menopause symtoms?

For the past 5-6 weeks, I've been having numbness/tingling in my arms, hands and legs and feet.  I've also had tingling in the face area.........mouth and tongue.  My eyes sometimes feel itchy as sometimes my skin.  I've had headaches and felt light-headed.  Sometimes my face gets flushed and so do my arms, like I'm burning under my skin.  My finger joints feel sore.  I can't hold a book or magazine and turn the pages, my hands and fingers feel sore.  

I've had blood work, a MRI of the brain, and a nerve test done.  All my test results are fine.  My Neurologist suggested it's anxiety or I'm hyperventilating.  Oh, I was also sent to Physical Therapy for tight muscles in my shoulder in neck.  The PT said I was fine.  The Neurologist told me to come back in six weeks.  Okay, but I still don't know what's wrong with me!!!  

Help!  Can this be related to Menopause?   I had a hysterectomy in 2004 and have both of my ovaries.

Thanks!

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I am so glad to have found this site.  I am 47 years old and my period started to go beserk September 2014.  It's quite all over the place.  I started having tingling in my hands in November then in February started in my legs, now my head. I saw GYN was tested for hormone but he said I was not peri menopausal.  I find that hard to believe. No hot flashes, lots of anxietyanxirty, headaches, neck pain and this Tingling,  I seeing a neurologist this week to rule out MS.  I am extremely frightened and this thread is giving me hope that it's peri menopause I'm going thru.
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So glad I came across this series of comments!  I am 52 years old and I am going through per-menopause.  I haven't had my period in four months, so far.  I thought I was dying!  I've been lightheaded, off balance, achy, fingers and toes tingle all the time, my face looks like I've been in the sun a little too long, have trouble concentrating, and all my blood work is totally fine!  Very frustrating and upsetting.  Thanks for all these posts, it puts my mind at ease, even though I still feel like crap every day.
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Hi there  -  I am reporting back after a myriad of tests!!!   I have posted earlier and can confirm that I thanks to my health insurance I have had brain, back and foot MRI's (twice!) lumbar puncture,  nerve conduction tests both in the feet and from the brain downwards! all blood work to include B12 results = ALL CLEAR!!!  What a surprise!!!  Only thing slightly out is I am at the top end of the range for thyroid and low Vit D (not low enough apparently to warrant medical attention!)  Problem is with these ranges you can be borderline, show symptoms and GP writes you off as normal. Good news major tests are clear but still the symptoms remain. I am 47 had last period 9 months ago.  My symptoms are numb toes on left foot and now pain in these toes which affects my walking,  new symptom: painful joints in hands,  hands falling asleep in the night like Ive slept on them - this goes once I get up and flex them but the painful hand and toe joint remain. Skin on hands is very dry.  Tingling tongue has subsided as has tingling down legs, arms etc. Thankfully UTI's have not re-occurred. 3 months ago I had terrible anxiety come on - felt like I had had a breakdown.  Came out of the blue - never had depression before this was something quite new. I was waking at 4am every morning with racing negative thoughts. Also felt like my emotional part of my body was detached from my physical body - very hard to explain.  I felt very agitated and my thoughts were constantly about my symptoms. My GP sent me to see a psychiatrist!  I was put on Citalapran antidepressant.  Another GP I saw in the same practice felt sure it was anxiety due to a whole host of grotty things that I had experienced in the past year to include multiple bereavements but although I have no doubt this has not helped, my feelings were something quite new and came on completely out of the blue.  The antidepressant has stopped the insomnia and taken away the horrible detachment feelings but I now whenever I have a vaguely negative thought I experience a tight knot like feeling in my throat - it comes and goes so definitely anxiety.  My numb foot and the huge number of tests Ive had in the past 6 months have not helped my anxiety one bit either.  Anyway my blood tests show as well as being "in the menopause" I am vitamin D deficient - how that happens I don't know when I have taken supplements and calcium/Vit D supplements for years.  My mum was my age when she went on HRT and although Ive managed without it thus far as coming round to the idea I will have to start it to try and regain some of my life back.   As for my numb toes,  I have the doctors flumaxed.  They want to start me on Gabapentin for long term pain!  I tell them I just want to know why my toes are numb and they say 9 times out of 10 the reason is never apparent - great!  I am sure the anxiety doesn't help.  Next week I am starting back at work after taking a year's career break from a very stressful job so that will be interesting - kill or cure I feel!!  I am hoping to work will take my mind off my health.   In the meantime one last ditch attempt am going to research bio-identical HRT and see if that gets me anywhere before seeing my GP for standard HRT.   Many thanks to all of you for reporting on your experiences - the similarities are startling - don't know where we would be without this forum!!  all the best  Tracey
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Hi, how did you find out about the garlic,
My symptoms are so horrendous, I was so sure there was something doctors was missing to be honest they haven't been any help to me what so ever , only that I find these sites they help to see not only one feeling like this I sometimes just cry not that it helps, just want to feel normal again
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I have the same crappy symptoms went through menopause early I'm 41 haven't had a period in years. I'm plagued with weird symptoms don't remember what it's like to feel normal. My hands are so numb that I'm having trouble typing. Good to know I'm not the only one. Good luck to everyone
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I went through the same kind of bp fluctuations. My gp started with the bp medicine. May be she shouldn't have.
Eating a clove of raw garlic, empty stomach, with warm water helped me a lot.
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