MS Symptoms?
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 5:52 pm
Hi Everyone--For the last month or so, I've been having some symptoms I'd like clarification on. It started with a twitch in my right hand (thumb and index finger) that lasted for about three days. Around that time, I noticed twitching in other areas and a numbness in my left index finger. As I've been breastfeeding for 16 months now, I thought maybe it was a vitamin deficiency and started on a prenatal vitamin, b-complex, magnesium, calcium, and vit. d. About a week later, I noticed a twitch in my left cheek, followed by numbness in the same cheek. My left ring and middle fingers also started to feel numb.
Now, all the twitching has gone away, but my left hand fingers still go numb from time to time (sometimes it's my index finger, sometimes it's my middle and ring fingers, today it was my pinky and ring fingers). The numbness is mild and only off and on, as is the numbness in my left cheek. The numbness in my cheek also seems to travel to different areas (sometimes under my eye and in the circle of my cheek, sometimes in my jawbone extending to my ear, sometimes my jaw and the top of my throat...
Also, sometimes when I'm jogging, my fingers and the toes of my left foot get numb for about ten minutes.
I went to my GP on Friday and he did bloodwork (he also thought maybe I had a vit. deficiency, but the labs came back normal). He said this didn't sound like MS because the symptoms come and go so frequently and aren't particularly consistent--what do you all think?
(I'm beginning to wonder if this is all just anxiety, since I didn't "notice" any numbness until after I had the initial twitching episodes--which certainly could have been from a vit. deficiency since I've now been taking supplements for a month or so now...My mind has been known to play tricks on me.)
Thank you all so much for any help you can give.
Now, all the twitching has gone away, but my left hand fingers still go numb from time to time (sometimes it's my index finger, sometimes it's my middle and ring fingers, today it was my pinky and ring fingers). The numbness is mild and only off and on, as is the numbness in my left cheek. The numbness in my cheek also seems to travel to different areas (sometimes under my eye and in the circle of my cheek, sometimes in my jawbone extending to my ear, sometimes my jaw and the top of my throat...
Also, sometimes when I'm jogging, my fingers and the toes of my left foot get numb for about ten minutes.
I went to my GP on Friday and he did bloodwork (he also thought maybe I had a vit. deficiency, but the labs came back normal). He said this didn't sound like MS because the symptoms come and go so frequently and aren't particularly consistent--what do you all think?
(I'm beginning to wonder if this is all just anxiety, since I didn't "notice" any numbness until after I had the initial twitching episodes--which certainly could have been from a vit. deficiency since I've now been taking supplements for a month or so now...My mind has been known to play tricks on me.)
Thank you all so much for any help you can give.