Patient's Query
Hello doctor,
I have had neuropathy and neuralgia since taking my COVID-19 vaccine, which was a week ago. It started with a tingling sensation in my arm, which I thought was normal. Then as the day went by, organs on the left side of my body and intestines started to feel like I had pins and needles poking in. In the night, I woke up with a tingling sensation in my chest, face, and both arms.
The next day, my toes, fingers, arms, legs, and left side of my body started feeling the tingling sensation. Today, I had nerve pain in my fingers and toes, as if pins and needles were poking in my legs, intestines, and face. This sensation occurs at times off and on. I cannot feel my legs after sitting for a few minutes. I also experience a tingling sensation in my head. After experiencing a tingling sensation in my lower back for two days, I am now experiencing lower back pain. I have been weaning off prednisone for a few years, so I am currently taking only 1 mg dosage for Systemic lupus and Sjogren's. I am 40 years old. Kindly help.
Hello,
Welcome to icliniq.com.Thank you for the query. I can understand your concern.For now, I suggest:
1) Pregabalin 75 mg, one capsule once a day at night as tolerated. Watch out for side effects such as dizziness.
2) Tablet Vitamin B complex, one tablet once a day.
To document if it is a post-vaccinal polyneuropathy, please undergo nerve conduction studies with a neurophysiologist. Do you have motor weakness or is it purely sensory symptoms?
Patient's Query
Hi doctor,
Thank you for the answer,
My legs have fallen asleep and on the first night, I stumbled a bit. Sometimes my hands are shaky and when I bend down I have dizziness. Other than that, it is a pins and needles poking sensation in different parts of my body and nerve pain in my toes and thumbs.
Hello,
Welcome back to icliniq.com.
Fine, please consult your physician and consider starting these medications. I hope you will get well. If you experience any motor weakness, please get to the emergency room. Thank you.
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