I am new here, and i've read some posts here and there. Never been on a forum before!
Last month, starting June 11th has been complicated for me. Here i go to tell my story, in a nutschell: i am afraid of possible ms, and i dont know if this can be anxiety too.
Fisrt things first: i am a father of a beautiful boy, now 3 months and a half. Thank you very much..
This months had been tiring! The schedules, preparing the milk, some sleep deprivation..but i think now we have a more organized routine!
Ok, now the worries...i'll try to be briefly because "overdescriptions" of symptoms can be boring. On past June, 11th i went to the Health Center, i got an aunt working there. I told her about some tingling sensations i felt over my body. Yes, my major complains are sensitive symptoms. I felt this tingling on left foot majorly, but sometimes bilateraly in the right sole foot too. She told me could be my spine, and passed me an X.ray to my column (all of it). She told me too to take some suplements like magnesium and etc, which i didnt. At the end of that day..not feeling completely satisfied..i went to an Hospital nearby, actually to an E.R. I was attended by a young medical doctor which did me a brief neurologic examination and said i was fine. She tested my balance, reflexes, pupils, etc.
Still worried, i talked my father about all this and he gave me the contact of a Neurologist. I went there 14 June. My complains were the pins and needles/tingling, some little sharp pains like a needle in various areas of the body (eye, arms, both sides, etc). I told him too about some lack of strenght i felt in my legs, majorly in my left leg, and some stifness there too. After this he did a complete neurologic physical exam, he told me the exam was normal, and didnt thought i should do exams or even an mri. He told me he thought i had this relation with my body, like somatic relation, because i told him when i was 17 i had a depersonalization episode after smoking some pot. In that episode i didnt felt my body, and went panic attacks from there. Since 17 i had some panic attacks here and there, at 21, 25 i guess..27..with sometimes depersonalization/derealization too. Ok, the neurologist told me to send him an email, 2 days after, but to go home in peace.
16 June - i send him the email and described again more symptoms, some different, some the same, but all sensitive symptoms i guess. The numbness, tingling, sharp little needles here and there in the body, some left side lack of strenght. He answered me saying he still thought my complaints didnt present a structural problem in the CNS, but that it was probably better to do an mri for him to tes his hipothesis. So he left the requisition to do the mri in the secretary.
19 June - i went to the Hospital at night again..on a Sunday; this time they passed me some blood tests, which were normal. I went t the ER again, worried if i had some spinal cancer or ms. They said they thought i was tired, that i was in a tired momento of my life, and to go home and rest. The thing is..i went to google searching for tingling and pins and needles symptoms and what appears is like ms, cancers, and some scary stuff.
21 June - I had another ER consultation in a different Hopsital. I felt some back pain, near the sacrum, some numbness on left foot, from the knee to the foot, and sometimes on right foot too. The medic suggested more specific analysis, which were ok. He testes B12, sugar, etc. My sugar was low, like 53..but i repeated the analysis of sugar and were normal, like 79.
22 June - I did the mri - Brain and cervical spine. The neuroradiologist said everything was normal.
After this i went to the neurologist again to show him the mri. He told me that he was surprised with the quality of images of the mri, because it was an "open" machine. I read somewhere that this open machines were less powerful in the magnetic fields..and i told him this worry but he told me the images were pretty fine, and that if i had lesions they would appear. He told me somewere too that with all the different complaints i told him of symptoms, that something would appear on the neurological physical exam.
Fact: i am an anxious person. The panic attacks..always expecting the worse..the catastrophic scenarios..so i spent most of this days like scanning my body. Actually is the first thing i do in morning, to see the legs, the tingling, etc. Sometimes in the middle of the night i wake up, feeling i am shortend of breathing air. So this to say i can be pretty much a scanner with my own body. Last year i didn an endoscopy, cause i was worried about some symptoms in my stomach. I did it and only had some sort of gastritis.
So..back to the last symptoms..i woke up and sometimes when i lift my left foot from the ground he tingles..sometimes i have pains too, little pains of 2-3 seconds in my left calf. Like a cramp feeling , some seconds. Oh..another symptom, sometimes i feel my arm pits like irritated..with a mild burning sensation. and sometimes in my arms i feel some hot too..as if i am near a hot stove but im not.
In the past sometimes i felt some thingling in my legs, and feel all the tension goes to legs too..when i am stressed, etc. I remember in 2012 feeling both my calves pretty tense, with a tensing feeling.
My questions are:
Could this be a Clinical Isolated Syndrome? With all this extension in time, like one month?
Could all these abnormal sensations be anxiety?
I only wish to be good and normal..so i can refocus my attention and energy back to my life, my kid, my wife and relax more.
Thanks and all be well,
João
