Guest guest Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 DO any of you deal with numbness and if so, is there anything that helps make it better? My son has 3 spinal tumors. One at the T4-5 level which is stable and doesn't seem to be causing problems. He also has two tumors at the 5-S1 level (caudia equina area) in the lower spine. The tumors are potentially growing. The radiologist says they are but the contrast leaks so it it hard to tell for sure. We will rescan next month to check. Isaac hasn't had any new symptoms except he sometimes complains that his legs are numb or feel like they do when you sit on a foot and it falls asleep. Hehas actually said they fell that way even when he doesn't sit on them. This doesn't seem to be a constant thing so I don't know if it is because of the tumors or not. We were told to watch out for leg weakness, numbness, incontenince or parlysis (duh! I don't think we could miss that one!). The doctors know about the nmbness and it concerns them but we will still wait until mid-march to scan since it does't seem to be a constant thing. Isaac does already have weakness in his leg due to a stroke during brain surgery and has incontinenc at night (due to the stroke too I assume since it started at the same time). Of course the spinal tumors were discovered at the same time as that surgery so it could be from that too. Anyway...no new symptoms except for the numbness/feeling like his foot/leg is asleep. Do any of you deal with numbness? How do you deal with it? I am afraid it is going to make him more likely to fall since his balance isn't that great anyway? Any suggestions? , Mom to Isaac who is 12 years old Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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