Pin prick symptoms and conditions

I have had MIRENA for about two months now. Not real sure about it . During intercourse my husband says he can feel it. I was told that he would not notice it there at all. Now he actually said it felt like it was poking him. How is this normal ? When I'm not bleeding we still can not enjoy our sex life because of MIRENA. I believe i'm going to have it removed. Has anyone else experienced this problem???

I'm a 20 year old female, 125 lbs, exercise everyday, and eat very well. I recently had an the mirena IUD put in after a year on depo provera. I cramped for about a week after insertion and then started to have pain on the left side near my pubic bone. I also was having nausea, blurry vision, difficultly focusing my eyes, dizziness, severe chest pains, and a pin prick sensation along with hot flashes all over my body. After finding this site, I called my doctor who didn't believe that the mirena was causing this, even though many of these are listed as severe side effects. I'm a 20 year old woman! Why would i suddenly develop some disease that made me feel this way? Despite her claims that the mirena wasn't responsible, the chest pains were unbearable and the uterine pain was shooting down my legs. I demanded to have it out. One day later the uterine pain was significantly better and my vision was back to normal. I still have slight chest pains but they have diminished appropriately. the hormone in mirena has a half life of about a day and a half so in two days it should be completely out of my system and the chest pains should subside. To conclude, if you are having these side effects and have no other conditions, try getting the mirena removed. It fixed me completely.

I feel so relieved to have found this website. I am going to call the doctor and have my Mirena removed ASAP! I have been experiencing many different random health problems lately. Which is strange because I am an extremely healthy person. My husband was laid off from his job and we lost his health insurance, so through all my symptoms I have just been suffering through it because I couldn't afford to go to a million doctors and have a million different tests run to find out the source of my symptoms. It started with itchy hives on all of my joints, elbows, knees, knuckles, toes and fingers. Then a symptom I had gotten during my pregnancies called PUPPP which is basically ugly, little, red bumps that ooze a clear liquid and itch like the dickens on my hands, fingers and legs. Then a big knot developed under the skin on my right wrist. The pain started on top and started radiating all the way around my wrist. Then the numbness, tightness and pin-prick pain occurred in my fingertips, then my hand, then my entire arm went numb from the elbow down. I also had horrible pain in my reproductive area on two different occasions that had me doubled over in pain. It felt exactly like contractions. I also have been bleeding every day for several months. Not enough to call it a full blown period, but bleeding every day. Some days, blood streaked mucus, other days full on blood clots would drain out of me. I've has horrible back pain and have been very fatigued even when I am careful to take care of myself. I also am naturally a very optimistic person who can handle bumps in the road of life, but lately, even though I hate to admit it, I have been down-right depressed. I have lost interest in all my interests, have a hard time shaking off life's set-backs, find myself on the verge of tears a lot, and basically have just wanted to pull the covers over my head and not wake up until I can just feel like myself again. Then last night my lips started to tingle, numb and swell. Then the same thing happened again tonight. I told my husband I am just falling apart and don't know what's wrong with me! I have never had any health problems before and now it's a new symptom practically daily. He said he had been doing some research and that he thought I was allergic to my IUD. I immediately Googled "Allergic reactions + Mirena" and found this website. It is such a relief to know that I might actually have an answer to all my problems. I can hardly wait for the doctor's office to open in the morning, I want this thing out right now and I want my life and ME back!

cecilrs, I need to urinate much more too...haven't even connected it to that! I have an itchy scalp too! I don't think this is an allergic reaction, just how some women react to this.

I also had a pin prick stabbing pain low in my abdomen today...more side effects?

I am a 40 year old female and both my husband and I are taking Lisinopril 40 mg. I have mild tingling in my arms at night, however the tingling/ burning sensation is so great in my husband's arms that he can't sleep at night. His rest is continually interrupted by this uncomfortable sensation. I have noticed a host of things like tiredness, an occasional dry cough, feelings of depression, rapid heart beat, and lack of energy in myself. My husband has experienced all of the above and muscle pain and irritability. I thought his irritability was being caused by lack of sleep, but I have learned from this website that it may be yet another side effect of the medication. We both have to get off this. Thanks for all of your helpful comments.

I began taking Micardis two weeks ago to control my high-normal BP. Started out with 40mg doses taken each morning. The first side effects I noticed were a slight dizziness and a feeling of disconnectedness plus an upset stomach. An irritating background headache then developed along with some shoulder and back pain. By day three, I had numbness in my left pinky finger and palm and slight numbness extending up to my elbow. All of these side effects have become very annoying and have made it hard to concentrate at work and have really decreased my motivation. Two days ago while skiing, I missed my dose in the morning and didn't realize until later how normal I felt throughout the day. Upon returning from skiing, I took a pill and an hour later I felt poorly again. I haven't really noticed any benefit from the drug with my BP either as I do monitor it almost daily. I'm going to stop taking the drug tomorrow and see how I feel the rest of the week. It's just not worth for what little, if any, benefit I'm receiving.

Hello. I was a long term Lisinopril user. I was taking 5 mg for several years with no apparent adverse effects, except for constant short coughing and scratchy throat. It lowered my Systolic pressure, but didn't lower the Diastolic pressure, so the doc upped my dose to 10 mg. Over the next several months, I began to get rashes, small pin-prick itches on my legs, sleepless nights due to extreme itching, fatigue, burning sensation in the chest, and excessive weakness. The Diastolic pressure still remained high so he upped my dose to 20 mg. Within a week, my hands swelled up and I got an extreme case of the hives all over my arms, hands, and legs. I never recalled ever having hives before and I didn't know what it was. I was terrified as to what was happening to me. The help counter at Walgreens Pharmacy told me I was having a severe allergic reaction to something that was causing a severe case of the hives. At that point, I still didn't make the connection to Lisinopril. The side effects continued to increase including burning sensation in the chest when I did the smallest chores, massive fatigue, dizziness, abdominal pains, headaches, rashes, and intense itching. I had 9 out of the 10 side effects caused by the drug. I research hives and found that I had the kind that would vanish after 6 weeks, because low and behold after exactly six weeks it went away. I kept complaining to my doctor about the problems that I was having, but he was of no help. After nearly 6 months on 20 mg of Lisinopril I became light headed even while lying down. I thought I was going to die. In mid-December, a year and a half ago, at 3:30 a.m., while lying down, I cramped up with severe abdominal pains, bloating, and extreme light headedness. I sensed that this was the end. I scrambled to my feet and tried to get upstairs to tell my family to call 911. I collapsed on the stairs and thought that this is where they would find my dead body. I made a second effort and struggled to my feet and made it into the dining area where I collapsed for a second time. My wife heard my body hit the floor. I saw the tunnel and light. She rushed out and called 911. When the paramedics arrived several minutes later I began to come out of it. My blood pressure was extremely low. After a short period of time, I recovered and felt relatively normal again. After that episode, I looked up the causes of light headedness on the internet and found a site that listed 10 medications that caused this side effect. Lisinopril made the list. I immediately stopped taking the drug. Within a few days, the light-headedness and rashes went away. I put 2 and 2 together and took my findings to the doctor. All he said was, "why didn't you tell me?" I had been complaining about these problems to him for the past several months. He switched me to a calcium channel blocker. Within a week I began getting rashes again and I discontinued the use of that drug. I now take a natural diuretic concoction of calcium, potassium, garlic pills, vitamins, other minerals, and a daily regimen of low dose aspirin. My strength and stamina have returned. I feel 90% better, but I think the experience has done permanent damage to my digestive system.

Jack - 2/28/06

I started taking Singulair only three days ago. I normally am very "body sensitive" and am extremely in touch with how new drugs interact with me. The first day I noticed my heart racing and I had a hard time going to sleep. The second and third day I've felt strange pin prick itching sensations all over my body. I don't want to even imagine how I would feel taking this every day for over a week! Yes, my sinuses are better, but I most certainly feel more anxious and the skin sensations are downright irritating - as if there are small insects crawling in my scalp and all over my body! Yuck!

I got bitten by a tick about a month ago. A week later I was having severe muscle pain and pin prick sensations all over.
Last Friday ( about three weeks after the bite) I got a rash on my breast. It cleared up with Triple ointment in three days but made me worry about Lyme disease. I went to the emergency room Sunday. The doctor assured me he didn't think I had Lyme but I did have systoms. He gave me doxycycline for Lyme.(even though there was no tests to confirm that I had it). Today is Wednesday and an hour after I took the pill this morning I got very dizzy, almost passed out and began vomiting. Tonight the nausea is gone but I still feel weird i.e. lightheaded/dizzy. I spent the morning in the same emergency room to be told it couldn't be a reaction to the doxycycline. They gave me an antihistamine and pills for vertigo. Yeah RIGHT!!! They didn't even try to find out what was making me dizzy. Sorry, no meds for me to be used as a "bandaid".

I suffered from alopecia areata (patchy to complete hair loss) since I was 13. From time to time I would go to a dermatologist to see if there was any new treatments for me. Finally a derm. began giving me pin-prick type injections of Kenalog in the scalp on a weekly basis. After a month. I had 100% hair regrowth. Boy, was I happy. Then he told me I couldn't have the injections more often than monthly, as he was afraid of overuse. The hair began falling out again. The monthly treatments weren't enough. I have the problem to this day. I wonder if I could start again on a weekly basis?

I'm a 40 year old male, diagnosed with high BP (148/110) and was placed on Cozaar (25). One month later placed on Toprol XL (25). Since then the side effects have been -
Sleepy (yawn, stretch, scratch, snore)
Loss of Mental Focus (I'm male, it was small enough before and now it's even smaller. The mental focus people...)
MUSCLE PAIN! Pecs, both sides but mostly the left. From deep muscle throbbing to pin-prick ouches. Left arm, follows the large bones (deep pain.) Lower back pain but hey, that may not be from the Toprol.
Oddly, sexual function has been helped. Sexual *drive* has gone down though. (Hey, my wife is 10 years older than me so she's ok) ;)

I hate this lethargic, crampy feeling. All my reading has shown to not quit Toprol cold-turkey but do a weekly dosage reduction down to 12.5 for two weeks before stopping. I'll see my doc in a couple of days to discuss this further.

Sidebar: EKG, Stress test show that my BP is reduced but not while exercising. So there's a fine line between side effects and prevention of High BP. Best of luck ladies and gents,
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I was on ortho-triclyclen for 5 years and LOVED it. About a year ago, I started to get a "period" every 2 weeks. I was mainly on the pill to control acne, but now I use it for birth control now that I have finally found a good guy! I tried a few pills, but still had the early bleeding. I read about Yasmin and had heard good things about it. It helped w/the early bleeding a little bit, but not completely. My doc had to add 10 mg of progestrin the week before I was supposed to get my period, but I'm STILL getting it one week early which adds up to 2 weeks of "supplies" and as you know, they aren't cheap! Since I started taking Yasmin 8 months ago, every few months, on the Sunday prior to my period, I get horrible nausea, vomiting, dizziness, tingling throughout my nerve endings and it knocks me out for about 2 days. It's the most horrible feeling! Sleeplessness as well. Therefore, my body is only trying to tell me 'something' and I'm going to give the birth control pills a break. I'm going to give my body some time to readjust itself hormonely and physically. Luckily, my boyfriend is understanding and only wants me to get back on track. I have made an appt w/my OB/GYN to discuss other options. Finding the right BCP has been a challenge for me for the past year...if only the docs could give us little pin prick and tell us what pill would be best for us with the least side effects. We are all so different!

I am currently on 300/12.5 of Avalide and Verelan pm 200 mg. My doses were upped a couple of weeks ago and at night I amhaving a stinging and pin prick feeling all over my body 30-40 min after I go to bed. Could this be an allergic reaction to any of these medications?

Thanks for your reply.

Sincerely.