Walter Husar, MD

Walter Husar, MD Neurologist

Central Morris Neurology

Practicing since 1992

170 East Main Street
- Rockaway, NJ 07866

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For a couple of years I carried my iphone in my right pocket. I didn't associate the numbness in my thigh until it was too late. That was over a year ago and it is still numb, a spot about the size of your hand feels like it is on Novocaine. Now it is becoming painful, especially when I wake up in the morning. After exercise it feels better but sometimes it feels like it is spreading to my hip and knee. Are the nerves dead or dying? Is this muscle death like Dr. House? Could it be bone cancer?

Anonymous Patient

Your symptoms are unrelated to your cell phone. You have a pinched nerve that supplies the lateral thigh. The nerve wraps under the inguinal ligament and then spreads to supply the lateral thigh. The nerve involved is lateral femoral cutaneous nerve and the clinical syndrome is meralgia paresthetica. Usually seen in manual laborers wearing a heavy tool belt, police officers or ladies who wear tight girdles. It may also indicate a propensity of your peripheral nerves, so that an evaluation for possible peripheral neuropathy is warranted.