Hello mrainne. Thank you for responding. All this started around July 23 out of no where. I was just sitting at my computer and all of a sudden my body was getting prickling, tingling pins & needles with some itching. I thought maybe I was having a reaction to the cranberry tablet I took for my UTI. As the day went on, it would come and go. There was a day or 2 there was nothing but then it came back. Because of the UTI, my kidney flanks were hurting on the 27th July early evening, and I woke up with kidney flank pain in the middle of the night, still having the neuropathic sensations. I was concerned they were both correlated. I went to ER on July 28. They ran labs and said all looked good. The ER Doctor had no idea why I was having the skin sensations and Rx'd benedryl. Time went on, my flank pain subsided but the neuropathy did not. It was like a come and go thing, but in the last 10 days it has been progressing. On Aug.22 my ankles started hurting and pain running on my bones in the front of my calves. I couldn't take it anymore and had my Son take me to the ER on Aug.24. They ran all kinds of tests, Blood & urine, and they came in my room and said all my labs looked good. The Dr. claimed my bone pain is probably from my nerves going haywire. They said to follow up with my Doctor, possibly discuss a Neurologist .They prescribed gabapentin 100 mg. So, Thurs. night I took my Gabapentin, and actually slept well! All day yesterday I felt good, actually rejoicing I wasn't suffering. Then, at around 9:30 P.M. last night, it came back. I took my Gabapentin and prayed it would go away. It didn't. Up all night with the ankles hurting, my calves, the stinging all over my body. What else I experienced was sharp pain in my skull on the left side. It lasted about 15 seconds. So, no sleep. I am starting to get depressed and weeping at times. I sit here and ask, how did this happen so fast? Out of no where? I do recall about 5 days ago,on my left hand, the flesh under the thumb had such a jolt it took my breathe away. Like you, electric bolts going through my hand. That lasted about 15-20 seconds. I also deal with Esophagitis & GERD. These are the tests they did at the Hospital: FOLATE,Borrelia Burgdorferi AB, Total,Urinalysis with Microscopy and Culture if >5 WBC/HPF,Vitamin B12(In the normal range but very low),ECG- 12 LEAD WITHOUT RHYTHM,CBC WITH DIFFERENTIAL,COMPREHENSIVE METABOLIC PANEL,TROPONIN, TSH REFLEX FREE T4,ESR and C REACTIVE PROTEIN.
The Doctor came in and said all looks good. I am grateful for that, truly I am, but still I sit here with neuropathy. I recently a couple months back had an Xray of my lungs & they notated my Spine. This is what they wrote: Mild osteoarthritis of bilateral AC joints. Multilevel degenerative disk disease of the thoracic spine with questionable partial fusion of a low thoracic vertebral level.
So I ask myself, is my spine so bad that it's cutting off nerves? Do I have a tumor somewhere that is pressing on major nerve endings? And then again, my mind goes to June 3 when I had the iodine contrast if I am getting delayed adverse reactions. ~