Anyone else have hands tingling after a deep breath?

[Sandpuff]

I have a new symptom that I just noticed in the past few weeks.  When I exhale after sighing or taking a deep breath both my hands tingle.  It doesn't happen if I consciously take a deep breath, I can't make it happen.  Does this happen to anyone else?  The tingling only happens for a second, it kind of comes on like a wave or a shock and then goes away.  I have tingling at other times just out of the blue, but this happens every time I exhale deeply.  

I also had a hard time yesterday with my legs.  I had to stand for awhile and my legs started feeling really heavy and achy and I finally had to sit down.  For the rest of the day my right leg was achy.  I'm very discouraged right now because I had 2 days of feeling great last week and thought maybe I was going to be fine.  I thought I could finally get on with life.  I'm tired of feeling sick as I'm sure a lot of you  are.  I just wondered if anyone else experienced the tingling when they exhale.  It may be nothing but I guess I'm paying more attention to the little things.

[firewife308]

I thought I posted this last night but I am not finding it. I have been diagnosed with MS  this winter after 5 years of uncertinity. The more recent testing started last Sept. and in Aug. I decided to go an alternative route, my friend told me about a herbalist so I went there. This woman is good, I didn't want to tell her my symptoms or any issues before she checked me just to test her to see if she really knew what she was doing, she knows exactly what she is doing! She said all my symptoms were ACTING like MS, and the computer was showing I had it, then she put some meds on a plate that was hooked up etween me and the computer, and the MS was gone! Turns out I have Heavy Metal Poisioning and the numbness I was experiening in both hands, feet and legs was due to the metal that had attached themselves on my nerves. Within 3 days my symptoms were gone. If anybody has the opportunity to go see a herbalist I stongly suggest doing it. My doctor never even tested me for heavy metals...I am very disappointed in our health care system. The only side affect I have had from the meds my herbalist has put me on is my life is better, I sleep better, smell better (which isn't always great), hear better and my mood and attitude are better, which my husband and children are very thankful for! I do from time to time have tingling in my hands, but that just tells me to go to the chiropractor and have my neck adjusted (I have a pinched nerve in my neck) and the tingling is gone before I walk out of the office.

[bida]

I also experience the tingling in the hands when I take deep breaths sometimes.  I have polycythemia vera and venous sagital sinus thromboses in my brain.  It feels like a shock surge.  What are you diagnosed with?  Thanks -Jackie

[Prozo]

I just got online.  I was looking up tingling in the hands when taking a deep breath.  Interesting to see what other comments are out there.  I am under investigation now for cns lupus...but I wonder if it's MS?  My ana is positive and fairly high.  My face burns at times, short memory, have tingling in the head at times as well as feet, my smell isn't as sharp as it use to be either.

I also have had seizures this past year and am off work because of it.  I am going for a nerve conduction test soon.  Has anyone had that done?  what's involved.  Is it acurate or sketchy depending on the doctor , etc.??

[Deb61]

I've not had a nerve conduction test, but many people have had this test--so I'm bumping this up.

I get the tingling in the hands when taking a deep breath thing, too, and have no idea what causes this.  I don't have this symptom anymore, though.

Lupus can cause peripheral neuropathy.  I wonder if that is what is causing your tingling sensations.  

Deb

[Quixotic1]

Why don't you start a new discussion and tell us about yourself?  You can go to the top of this page and click on "Post a Question" then tell us about yourself.

How how is your ANA?  The titers that are 320:1 and higher are far more likely to be associated with an autoimmune inflammatory disease (like lupus) than are lower titers (like 1:40, 1:80, or 1:160).

Quix

[Prozo]

My ANA back in April of this year was 1:320.   I had been experiencing seizure like symptoms from Dec 07 til now.  They are not like epilepsy where you blank out.....I am coherant and can feel everything, I just can't move or talk, and my left arm, legs and sometimes whole body jerk a lot.  It's like my body becomes electrical.  This can last 30min-5 hrs. I get headaches, dizziness, tingling head, blank in the head.  My motor skills just stop.  These seizure episodes are triggered with the onset of my period, but can happen through out the month as well.

  When I went to the Rheumy. at the beginning of Aug. my ANA had dropped to 1:280.  It was in August that I started getting the tingling in the hands everytime I took a deep breath. Through Aug-Sept was rough.  (July wasn't too bad) I had a lot of seizure like episodes, intense headaches, dizzy like headaches were the worse, then fatigue and memory have been there for the past year as well.

UPDATE to nerve conduction test:

October wasn't a bad month.  It seemed everything was settling down, no seizure episodes that put me right down, however, my legs would snap with a jolt suddenly when I went to bed on ocassion and only mild tingling fuzz in the head.   Still lots of tingling and headaches periodically.  I thought I was on the way out of this......not!

My memory test showed below average for a woman of my age, 40ish, and the nerve test showed no nerve damage.  Not really surprised by that since I am fine other times and I didn't have numbing.  The bottoms of my feet, heels particularily, are sore when I stand in the morning and my legs don't feel so strong, from lower back joint sensation, which makes it difficult to walk.....I sort of wabble in the morning for a while.

Now it's Nov. (coming to a full year) and I can tell my body is in for another bought.  This time when I had a seizure (worse) my hand and feet were very cold with tingling and now a numb sensation.  All day I couldn't warm up even though I had my pj, housecoat, socks, blanket and heat jacked up.  ??   My arms and legs feel numb, but not totally, I can't tell if my limbs are warm or cold.  Strange to explain, but when I put my hands to my face I can tell they feel cool and my hands and feet look whiter.

I've only just been wondering if these are similar to MS symptoms?

I'm very frustrated with the doctors.  My family doc. is great, but has no answers, and the Rheumy I only saw once....still investigating??  The neuro says, it's stress.......awwwwwwww!  Ya,  ....like I'm getting stressed as a result!

Any clues would be nice??
Prozo