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Hi, passionfruit, and thank you for your question!

Here's what the Mayo Clinic says about conversion disorders:

"Conversion disorder is a condition in which you show psychological stress in physical ways. Conversion disorder usually appears suddenly after a stressful event. For example, your leg may become paralyzed after falling from a horse even though you weren't hurt. Conversion disorder signs and symptoms appear with no underlying physical cause, and you can't control them.

"Signs and symptoms of conversion disorder typically affect your movement or your senses, such as the ability to walk, swallow, see or hear. Conversion disorder symptoms can be severe, but for most people, they get better within a few weeks."

Numbness and paralysis are common symptoms of this disorder, and may explain the sensations in your arms and legs. Can you describe the sensations better? Are they like pins and needles, or is it a dull throbbing, or is it more like pain?

The Mayo has a good list of symptoms and they do include some that sound like yours:

* Poor coordination or balance
* Paralysis in an arm or leg
* Difficulty swallowing or "a lump in the throat"
* Inability to speak
* Impaired vision, including double vision and blindness
* Deafness
* Seizures or convulsions
* Loss of balance
* Numbness or loss of the touch sensation
* Inability to feel pain
* Hallucinations
* Difficulty with walking
* Urinary retention

Are you under a doctor's care? Have you been able to identify certain stressful events that trigger your disorder? Has your doctor suggested therapy or physical therapy?

Here's a link to treatment possibilities for you:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/conversion-disorder/DS00877/DSECTION=treatments-and-drugs