Post by ebcsmom on Nov 10, 2012 6:52:12 GMT -5
Hello all, I am needing advice and suggestions with something I have been dealing with for a few months. First let me tell you the story, I started running and training pretty hard for a half marathon back in May. When I first started light training everything was good but a few blisters here and there. Then when I started long runs, 8-12 miles and running 25 or more miles in 6 days my arches and feet would become numb and tingle and very painful. I went to my chiropractor and he said he felt like it was neuropathy. I bought new shoes and kept right on training. I then started to get numbness, tingling and pain in my hands also during a long run. However I could help them by dangling mine arms or rotating in big circles during my run. I trained really hard for about 5 months then ran my 13.1 marathon. Since doing so in October, I have slowed running down some but am still hitting a good long run once a week plus running 3 to 4 miles twice a week, lifting weights, riding a stationary bike and doing the elliptical. Now I am getting woke up EVERY SINGLE night with excrutiated pain from "dead" hands and arms! My right arm is the worst. It can be very hard for me to hand milk my cow some mornings.
Let me tell you my medical background. I am very deffeciant in B12, and suppose to take a shot every two weeks as the pills do NOTHING for me, very deffeciant in vitamin D, have had to take 50,000 units weekly for months at a time, I also am in remission for Graves' disease, but am now wandering if I am hypothyroid. I haven't had blood work done in a year, I believe it's about time! All of these things and deficiencies are hereditary. My mother and all her sisters and all my sisters for that matter have the same things, however they have more autoimmune diseases!
We are gluten free here due to my 5 year olds sensitivities. So I haven't consumed gluten in months probably since April. I used to grind my own wheat and bake bread and everything else weekly.
What do you all think? Is the numbness due to my vitamin deficiencies or something else? I am horrible at taking meds like I should! I need some relief though, as I am now to getting much sleep at night st all.
What should I do?
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Let me tell you my medical background. I am very deffeciant in B12, and suppose to take a shot every two weeks as the pills do NOTHING for me, very deffeciant in vitamin D, have had to take 50,000 units weekly for months at a time, I also am in remission for Graves' disease, but am now wandering if I am hypothyroid. I haven't had blood work done in a year, I believe it's about time! All of these things and deficiencies are hereditary. My mother and all her sisters and all my sisters for that matter have the same things, however they have more autoimmune diseases!
We are gluten free here due to my 5 year olds sensitivities. So I haven't consumed gluten in months probably since April. I used to grind my own wheat and bake bread and everything else weekly.
What do you all think? Is the numbness due to my vitamin deficiencies or something else? I am horrible at taking meds like I should! I need some relief though, as I am now to getting much sleep at night st all.
What should I do?
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