tingling buzzing sensation in hands and feet.

[steveo007]

I'm a 35 year old male from the UK in otherwise good
health.
About 3 months ago I started having some weird symptoms/sensations.
Firstly, I noticed a slight tremor in my left thumb, it only lasted a few seconds and I put this down to fatigue, as I'd been working out with weights. For some weeks after this my left hand felt tired and shakey, but without any loss of strength or actually shaking.
I then started to experience intermitant sensations of what I can only describe as light numbness and pins and needles in both my hands and feet, but primarily on my left sided extremeties.I would also occassionaly get these sensations on a small area of my left thigh.These sensations regularly come and go, but last seconds rather than minutes/hours.
In recent weeks the light numbness seems to have subsided but I have noticed that I regularly wake up
during the night with either hand completely numb.This is rectified in seconds by wiggling my fingers, but the effected hand is left feeling weak for a couple of hours.I have also noticed a strange
buzzing sensation under my left foot, that I can only describe as if someone was holding vibrating mobile phone against it.
I have been to see my GP who seems to think stress or anxiety.Basic blood tests have come back normal.
I apologise for the length of this post, but I would
much appreciate any thoughts or advice as the where I go now.
1)does anybody know, statistically, how likely these
symptoms are to be caused by some serious disorder ie ms.
2)Does stress/anxiety seem a feesible cause.
3)These symptoms are very light and the worry of what they might be is causing much more of a problem than the actual sensations. With this in mind, do you think it might be better to just live with these things and see if they die down of their own accord.
Many thanks in advance.  

[Dizzygirl27]

27 year old female. Anxiety issues,  not treating it with medications. Recently I've had bouths of tingling Ingram both my hands, dizziness, confusion,  angry. Feel drunk sometimes when standing up. Any thoughts?

[Sherri1452]

My pain is real but when the blood test and mri came back normal then doctors seem to ignore me about my pain. I  am glad that others feel the same as I have in my body. I learn that 5% of MS have normal MRIs. Everyone has stress and aniexty to some degree. I think when the doctors dont know what is wrong and just push it off to stress. When our symptons are not life threatening and we can contiue on our daily life with this they just seem like its not real. I went to the ER the other day and told the doctor what I was feeling. He said he would check my blood work. I was in the room about 7 hours when the nurse came in and said my blood work was fine and sent me home. I am getting worse. After reading that others have the same issues going on I relaly think we have something that no one had label yet or have a clear description to tell us what is wrong. Its hard when your blood test comes back normal and the MRIs are coming back normal but the issues are real and still there and doctors then push it as stress. Which my doctor did do that but he just doesnt know what else to do.  I was givenGabapentin to stop the burning sensations in my feel. It works temp. and able to walk without pain. But still no answer to what is wrong or how to treat it. I am thinking that until I get worse that they cant do anything about it until someone takes the time to figure out what is causing this. Wonder at times if it could be something like MS but at a lesser illness? Like a mild MS? Becasue my problems started months ago and now starting to effect my walking.

[Vabinfaru]

You have every reason to be stressed right now.  I'd be more concerned if you weren't stressed...then you'd be delusional!  I think you need to give yourself a break and accept that you're allowed to feel a bit anxious at the moment.

[777mindy]

I also can relate to all of this. I'm 42 now bit symptoms began when I was 24. I went thru it all the tests, drs etc.  And always the end result was anxiety and I'm nuts.  After being mostly symptom free for 10 years it is back.  Of course I still had to have a full blown panic attack and ended up in the ER with my husband who os positive I'm still just crazy..  The ER of course said nothing was wrong with me after a load of test.  Which confirmed my husbands diagnosis.... He of course gloated the entire time. Anyways the last te all the symptoms flared up was right after I had my 1st son and went into a sleep deprevation and suffered extreme anxiety over my health.  Now this time (10 years later). We recently lost our home to foreclosure, my husband has lost his job and have gone from "middle class" to hoping we can get approved for food stamps, all in a matter of less than 2 years.

[zonaave]

I dont really think I in the right blog. Im a commerical diver and I been experiancing those same symtoms for about 7 months. Ive been to any and all cans of doctors and no one can figfure this out. You said in your post that you weight train just wondering have you used any pure 100% oxygen with your train. Because oxygen toxicity can come in to play.

[rorobolles]

Hello all,
     I know how you all feel I'm 54 have had lower back problems for about 30 years now off and on and have had several steroid injections over the last 6 years. I last set of injections did not help when my left leg pain started up this go around in December of 2010. I have a deep burning, cramping and feels numb (but it's really not numb). It's starts in my left hip and goes to my thigh, calf and down to my toes feels like I have a large rock on the ball of my foot. It's hurts 24/7 nothing reliefs it nothing. I have had all kinds of test from my head down. I have had 3 MRI, EEG, cat scan, discogram, mylegram, xrays, have seen a hip specialist at least 3 neurosurgeons. I finally had 360 back surgery on L4/L5 in October 2011 but only made my leg/foot pain and numbness worse :( so now going through more testing just had a nerve trot injection in L5/S1 and have gotten a little relief in the thigh and calf but the tingle/numbness on my left foot is driving me nuts. So called my neurosurgeon today to let him know the injection has helped some and would like the second injection because they can give me up to 3 injection if I get some relief so now waiting for the dr offce to call me with the next . A lot has happened in my life this past past year the worst is the lost of my Mom passing so I know I have stress in my life. I guess the last thing I would like to say is if you have not seen a neuro you need to see 2 or 3 for their opinions I would never just take the word of one. I really like my doctor I chose and he did a wonderful surgery on my back but there is always a chance that it does not fix the problem. I had hardly tell I even had the back surgery. Oh and I did need the fusion a had a tear in one disc. They are sure something is pressing on my sciatica nerve but all the test have not shown where it has got tall the doctors that I have seen stumped. So if anyone has any suggestions please let me know ASAP. Thank you all very much.
Roro