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Re: Numbness

Posted by Worried Sleeper on April 07, 2002 at 07:58:39:

In Reply to: Numbness posted by Worried Sleeper on April 06, 2002 at 06:11:38:

Well - after my wife prodding me, I ended up going to the hospital's urgent care (I couldnt get ahold of my doctor, etc due to being saturday).

It turned out to be 'lateral femoral cutaneous palsy' - which is a pinched nerve in the leg. I've been taking ibuprofen to make the swelling go down, which has reduced the numbness. I still need to schedule a followup with a doctor to be referred to a neurologist for a 'solution'.

Although in my case it is related to CPAP - because of how I sleep putting weird pressure on a nerve, it isnt like a common side effect as far as I can tell.

I think maybe if I could learn to sleep on my side with the mask it might help - but I just always roll on to my back again (without cpap I always sleep on my side, so it's kind of weird).

Oh well - more doctor appointments to follow. Thanks for responding, even if it is only one or two other people it's good to know I'm not completely alone out there.

Worried sleeper / Jason

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