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kookie

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Joined: 18 Mar 2005
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Location: massachusetts
My Skin Is Sensitive to the Touch-why?
Posted: 03-19-05 08:49am

The skin on the back of my leg from the top to the knee is so sensitive to the touch- no rash, just a weird feeling , like a rug burn. Any ideas as to what this is?
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bkdaniels

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Location: Little Rock, Arkansas
My Skin Is Sensitive to the Touch-why?
Posted: 03-19-05 11:54am

Hey kookie, how are you doing?

Here is a list of disease or disorders associated with pin-and-needles sensation (tingling):

pernicious anemia: anemic symptoms plus general body pain sore, red, beefy tounge, weight loss, jaundice, pinns-and-needles sensation in hands, feet, and elsewhere, nausea, difficulty walking, impotence or frigidity.

Diabetes: excessive hunger, thirst, and urination, numbness, pins-and-needles sensation in the extremities, weight loss, leg cramps, skin and vaginal infections, weakness, fruity breath, blurred vision, red, sore, dry tongue, impotency.

Primary aldosteronism: fatigue, muscle weakness, numbness, tingling, excessive urination, thirst.

Vitamin b1 (thiamine) deficiency: loss of appettite and weight, prickling of numbness in the extremities, emotional instability, alarming palpetations, difficulty breathing, swelling and fluid in tissues.

Best wishes,
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twentyone

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Joined: 15 Mar 2005
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Location: uk

Posted: 04-29-05 03:17am

I had the exact same thing on my shoulder it was siadica, stress related it was.
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