Tingling and ketosis?

I don't believe you supposed to feel "tingling" when in ketosis.

First I recommend making your diary public.

On assumptions I'll say:
Tingling is usually associated with cardiovascular anomalies, you might want to consult your doctor and switch your diet back to a balanced one.

If your profile picture is a true picture of yourself, then I don't understand why you're doing a low carbs diet. You look great already. I would also suggest changing your perspective on "low carb" to "high lean protein" if your dieting.

I'm not an expert by any means but the tingling may also come from under eating.

it could be a lifting injury if you lifted too heavy w/o stretching, i kno beta-alanine can do that too but never had that heppen to me in keto, id see a doc

I get the same tingling when I don't eat carbs at a meal. It only happens in this case. I document all my food intake and have found it only happens at this time and goes away when I eat carbs. I don't feel anything else except tingling.

Hi there, the tingling sensation is a good sign - it means you are buring fat :-) Ignore all of the negative comments.

ps you may notice the tingling more in areas where you have fat to shift, this is because what you are feeling is literally the fat burning off your body!

Good luck

I don't even do a keto diet. Just a regular calorie deficit, and I get this tingling sensation too. Not all the time, but usually on days when I have had a really good workout.

I don't know if there is scientific evidence for it or not, but I always believed it was fat burning as well.

Hi there, the tingling sensation is a good sign - it means you are buring fat :-) Ignore all of the negative comments.

ps you may notice the tingling more in areas where you have fat to shift, this is because what you are feeling is literally the fat burning off your body!

Good luck

I hope to God you're trolling.

Be a little open-minded. Not everyone's experiences are going to be the same, and you have never been obese.

OP - If this tingling sensation is alarming to you, then perhaps you should consult your doctor.

Tingling sensations, I call it sizzling, on the tops of hands, feet, and sometimes the front of one's legs, are fat burning from ketosis. It only happens to me when I eat almost zero carbs at a meal, like say, a lot of chicken and nothing, or chicken and lettuce with raw onion, with homemade italian dressing made from oil and vinegar with no sugar. If you don't believe me and you ARE someone with the tingling, try eating a baked chicken with carbs for one meal, and with no carbs (and none for a few hours before, or eat this for breakfast) and you'll see that it's the low to non carbing that causes it. I've done this for years, the sizzling fat burning won't hurt you, however, low carb/high fat dieting can hurt you and has hurt me. It can hurt your gall bladder, cause blood clots, and kidney stones. I've had all of these, but I couldn't resist the allure of ultra low carbing because it works. don't be dumb like me, diet by using low calories and lots of bulk, like huge servings of vegetables and salads, I mean huge.

miainwonderland wrote: »

I've switched to low carbs 2 days ago. Since yesterday I've been feeling this tingling (can't think of a better word) all over my body, like little ants crawling under my skin. Is this related to ketosis? I don't have any other symptoms so I don't know whether I'm in ketosis or not.

@miainwonderland welcome to these MFP forums.

Keep in mind your body has not started burning fat as its main source of fuel yet. We are built to use carbs or fats for fuel but it takes some time to become keto adapted. Take your time because there is a learning curve and you will learn there are carbs and lots of carbs in food due to added sugars if it has been processed.

While I do not remember the tingling in the same way my first 90 days was full of surprises like that. I have been eating <50 grams of carbs daily for a year now for pain management after I tried keto and it addressed my joint and muscle pains within the first 30 days after I cut out all grains and most all sugars and made up the calorie loss with fats like coconut oil.

My tingling to this day seems to be at the point of old scars. Anytime we change our way of eating there can be changes take place. Most of us take 2-6 weeks to switch from living mainly on glucose from burn carbs to living mainly on ketones from burning fats.

My age and poor health status when I started Oct 2014 may have been a factor but after two weeks my cravings for carbs started to fade away and my pain started dropping fast. I did not lose even ONE pound for the first six weeks but did lose some inches of fat during that time.

While Nutritional Ketosis was not initially started as a way of dieting it does work very well for most who can walk away from a high sugar eating lifestyle. It is awesome for those of us with autoimmune type diseases or who do not want to develop them.

Best of success which ever route you take. There are many ways to lose weight and keep it off. For those of us who no longer handle carbs well this way of eating can be awesome for us.

I'm in Ketosis and I don't feel that! (tingling) Even though I started overnight from 200+ grms of carbs to less than 50

EvgeniZyntx wrote: »

sarahthes wrote: »

The last time I had tingling I was in the process of nearly bleeding to death. You might want to get checked out!

How did you determine you were bleeding? Lightheadness? Bruising? Actual blood?
Perhaps these are things that the OP is not seeing.

Wow, this is an old thread. I was hemorrhaging after having a baby in the hospital (I also wound up getting 3 units of packed cells transfused). You couldn't miss my bleeding. I was shooting out softball sized clots. However, one can also bleed internally.