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What Causes Nausea,heart Burn And Numbness In Hands And Feet?
My 18 year old daughter suffers from nausea several times a week, daily heart burn, circulation problems in her hands and feet. Her feet go numb after physical activities, and her hands and feet constantly turn purple and become cold. She also occasionally becomes week and faints or blacks out (a few times a month). At least once a month she has sharp pains going through her chest and breathing becomes very difficult, and she also suffer from intense back pain which just comes and goes. Now we know she has a mild form of scoliosis and has been seen many times by our family doctor over the past couple and he dismisses all of our concerns, and has her on a daily Zantac regimen. Making another appointment to see our family doctor and will ask to be referred to a specialist, however, not sure if there is a specialist that can look at all these medical problems and possibly find something that could link all of these together, if in fact they are. So my question is, are there any specialist that can find the root cause to treat the problem and not the symptoms?
Mon, 12 Dec 2016
Hi.
Thanks for your query.
Noted the history about your daughter and understood the concerns.
The history is suggestive of a vascular problems along with autonomous nervous system problems.
I would advise you to get a reference for a Neurologist and a vascular Specialist as she needs clinical evaluation and examination leading to proper investigations and correlation of all the things.
The scoliosis can in fact be one of the reasons as the sympathetic chain gets excited so easily causing the circulation problems in the hands and feet.
An opinion of an Orthopedic Surgeon and an MRI will help evaluate scoliosis and can have a plan for correction which may be of permanent benefit.
Once diagnosed the plan becomes effective for cure.
Thanks for your query.
Noted the history about your daughter and understood the concerns.
The history is suggestive of a vascular problems along with autonomous nervous system problems.
I would advise you to get a reference for a Neurologist and a vascular Specialist as she needs clinical evaluation and examination leading to proper investigations and correlation of all the things.
The scoliosis can in fact be one of the reasons as the sympathetic chain gets excited so easily causing the circulation problems in the hands and feet.
An opinion of an Orthopedic Surgeon and an MRI will help evaluate scoliosis and can have a plan for correction which may be of permanent benefit.
Once diagnosed the plan becomes effective for cure.
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