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[lapsedmodernist]

Is it possible to have on-and-off lip numbess as a result of a prolonged stay at a very high altitide (over 12,000 feet)?

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[pirat-ponton.livejournal.com]

sure, if you've been chewing those leaves...

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

no, I have not been chewing those leaves. When I was in La Paz my lips started feeling like they weren't fully unfrozen from Novacaine or something, since then it's been going away and coming back.

[mysteryjesse.livejournal.com]

I wish I had some sort of answer... sadly, no.

um, god luck with that? didn't you say it was cold up there? could that be it? are you, um, eating right?

yours,
jesse

[rezendi.livejournal.com]

Are you taking Diamox? (The most common altitude-sickness drug.) Or maybe someone's slipping it into your food, or you've been given some local equivalent? I tried it once in Nepal, and it caused tingling/numbness in lips and fingertips.

[chitinous.livejournal.com]

Did you pinch a nerve in your neck during travel?

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

It might be a leftover symptom from the hypothermia you experienced. Like when you get sun stroke, sometimes the symptoms remain for a few days. Except you got "cold stroke"... This is a hypothesis, not something I know...

[boymaenad.livejournal.com]

yeah; didn't you say you had blue lips? I think they're still recovering.

my sister lost sensation in part of a lip for years after surgery, but even that came back.

[isquiesque.livejournal.com]

Were you eating shrimp? PSP can do that... *wink*

I've never had it happen due to altitude myself (though I had it happen one time with shrimp), but I generally don't stay at high altitude for extended periods of time.