Hi. I am experiencing what I think are signs of a neurological problem and I want to arm myself with as much information before I go to the doctor. Here are the things that concern me:
- For about three weeks I have woken up with a "dead" left hand. I am not sleeping on it, it just goes numb overnight. Every night.
- The feeling of numbness and tingling often lasts throughout the day and run along the right side of the palm towards the little finger.
- The top half of the fingers on my left hand are very cold all the time
- I have been getting swollen lymph nodes under the jaw that come and go but no other signs of infection
- I have felt a lot of weakness and aches in both hands
- Last week I started to have similar sensations in my left foot, with the numbness running along the same "line" as the tingling in my hand
- I recently had gout (podagra) in my left foot and occasionally get twinges of intense pain in the joint. I am 34, ideal weight and female. I don't drink beer or eat organ meat.
- I have burning pain in a few joints of the hands. The joints (index finger knuckles) feel warm to the touch and quite similar to the gout pain
- I have to pee a lot lately. To the point where it is really disrupting my daily routine. Sometimes I need to go three times in 15 minutes
- I regularly go to donate blood and often fail the Hb test
- I have tried the usual carpal tunnel syndrome wrist-flex tests with no positive results
Any advice or ideas that would help me get the right diagnosis when I go to the doctor would be most appreciated. Worried that I will be fobbed off without all possible underlying causes being considered.
Thank you.