Feeling numbness? almost 20 months post op.

[Dan Irwin 0]

Does anyone experience this so far post op?? I often feel random numbness in my thighs and buttock. And sometimes even all over! Ill be laying in bed and my wife will go to hold me and I get a "pins and needles poking me" all over the area where she is holding me. Or I will go to scratch and area on my body and I can't feel myself scratching that area. Ex. Right now I'm itching to the left of my eye (the corner of where my two eye lids meet) and I cannot feel it. I am almost 2 years post op. Any help would be awesome. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with surgery, and I'm not sure who I should call. Thanks everyone.

[cindymg 629]

Don't know about the eye area, but butt and thighs sounds like sciatica to me. That's the feeling I get when my sciatica is acting up. A few visits to the chiropractor ought to fix it.

[BellaItaliana 57]

Sounds like you're having numbness all over, if it includes your face. You need to go to your regular doctor and start exploring what it is.... I really doubt it's related to the sleeve.

[Dan Irwin 0]

Well everything i've researched points to B-12, for the first thing to explore. I have not been taking Vitamins after surgery (I KNOW thats not good, but I don't ever have the extra cash to spend on vitamins). But seeing as tho this problems isn't going away I went out and got a bottle of B-12 vitamins and hopefully the problem was a Vitamin deficiency.