Crawling Sensations

[sTeaLth]

I posted months ago about crawling feelings on certain spots in my feet. My chiropractor thinks my sciatic nerve is being pinched due to sitting all day for IT work at home and then being a gamer after work for several more hours. Granted, it did start when I sat in my son's banana rocker for multiple hours a day. That coupled with stress from having two toddlers around me all day. The issue is that now it doesn't want to go away. I am fearful of MS or something worse... but I can't help but believe this is just another anxiety issue. About a month or so ago, I stopped thinking about it.. stopped focusing on it... stopped touching or rubbing the spots where I could feel it happening... and it actually completely went away for about two weeks. I think I got stressed out or something at one point and it came back. Now I focus on it again and it is as bad as ever.

To go along with it, I have had an aura in my left eye for a decade that comes and goes with stress. I went all the way to neurology long ago and he told me it was likely my neck. We never did scans but he said, "There is nothing concerning about this to me, stretch, exercise, and ignore it." It has started again during this stressful time as well. Of course, that makes me fear that it is related... even though the eye stuff is NOT new at all.

I am hoping for someone to speak sanity to me. Clearly this is anxiety again and constantly focusing on it? I wake up and feel it in my feet but when I wear shoes I tend to forget about it. If I focus hard enough sometimes I can make it stop entirely. I feel like I am going mad. I just want this junk to go away! Any help is appreciated. Thanks guys.

 

[Izthewiz]

Best advice I can give you for sciatica is stretch and if you're overweight lose weight.
I had bad sciatica and I lost weight and stopped sitting so much and it went away after a year.
Nerve impingement can cause all sortof issue depending if it's in the lumbar spine or other parts..

 

[sTeaLth]

Best advice I can give you for sciatica is stretch and if you're overweight lose weight.
I had bad sciatica and I lost weight and stopped sitting so much and it went away after a year.
Nerve impingement can cause all sortof issue depending if it's in the lumbar spine or other parts..

Thank you for your reply! I plan to stand more during the day and begin running soon. Good to hear from someone who has suffered from sciatica.

 

[bigjetplane6]

I had sciatic nerve pain while pregnant. I literally couldn’t walk.
Stretching and resting helped me.

 

[Ms.Honey]

I've had those same sensations. Years ago I ended up at the ER with constant crawling all over my feet and legs, it was terrible. The dr. was very kind, but told me it was very probably MS. He referred me to a neurologist. It took a couple of months for the appointment. By then I had spent so many hours googling, I had almost every symptom on the list. But, by the time I got to the appointment, the tingling was almost gone.. and the neurologist told me I definitely didn't have MS. Even with all those other symptoms.
I also get the aura thing. Its super scary when it happens, but no dr has ever been worried about that. My foot has that crawling sensation right now actually. I've seen many different types of practitioners over the last 10 years for all the weird feelings I get, and they all think everything is a combo of anxiety, and pinched nerves/posture issues. You probably have something pinched in your hip area, causing the weirdness in your feet!

 

[sTeaLth]

I've had those same sensations. Years ago I ended up at the ER with constant crawling all over my feet and legs, it was terrible. The dr. was very kind, but told me it was very probably MS. He referred me to a neurologist. It took a couple of months for the appointment. By then I had spent so many hours googling, I had almost every symptom on the list. But, by the time I got to the appointment, the tingling was almost gone.. and the neurologist told me I definitely didn't have MS. Even with all those other symptoms.
I also get the aura thing. Its super scary when it happens, but no dr has ever been worried about that. My foot has that crawling sensation right now actually. I've seen many different types of practitioners over the last 10 years for all the weird feelings I get, and they all think everything is a combo of anxiety, and pinched nerves/posture issues. You probably have something pinched in your hip area, causing the weirdness in your feet!

Thank you. I am planning to ignore it for now. Hoping it disappears again.