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Hi...

My name is Emera, and I don't know what I have yet... but all signs are pointing to MS.

Have been having odd symptoms for a year, gradually getting worse, such as roving pain, muscle damage, muscle contractions, numbness, and I think a few times actual paralysis, although I didn't know what was wrong at the time. I have been having tremors about 4 times daily recently starting about a month ago. My intial problem was a slipped disc in my spine near my brain stem due to a very bad injury. That was 4 years ago. A year ago I found out the disc had gone back in, and was no longer in pain, and about to get married. I was so happy, exercising and extremely active.

A week after marriage, I began feeling more tired. I began having extreme pain, everywhere. I began having muscle weakness, and two months later, went to the hospital because of extreme pain and the inability to walk. Fast forward to now, and my life is drastically different.

I have not been able to walk 4 times in the past 3 months. I have tremors every day. I have extreme pain every day, and I have began to feel "drunk" without medication or alchohol. My arms have gone dead at times, my muscles have hardened for no reason and been extremely painfull to move, sometimes for an hour, sometimes for a day.

Is this MS? I am now being sent to a nuerologist, should see them in Febuary. My primary care physician who is a nurse practitioner told me that my tremors look more like dystonia, but from looking at videos of people with MS experiencing tremors I would say mine look the same.

I am very scared, my husband is very depressed and angry, sometimes spiteful. I need help. Can anyone help me?

Do I have MS?

Emerawolf wrote:Hi...

My name is Emera, and I don't know what I have yet... but all signs are pointing to MS.

Have been having odd symptoms for a year, gradually getting worse, such as roving pain, muscle damage, muscle contractions, numbness, and I think a few times actual paralysis, although I didn't know what was wrong at the time. I have been having tremors about 4 times daily recently starting about a month ago. My intial problem was a slipped disc in my spine near my brain stem due to a very bad injury. That was 4 years ago. A year ago I found out the disc had gone back in, and was no longer in pain, and about to get married. I was so happy, exercising and extremely active.

A week after marriage, I began feeling more tired. I began having extreme pain, everywhere. I began having muscle weakness, and two months later, went to the hospital because of extreme pain and the inability to walk. Fast forward to now, and my life is drastically different.

I have not been able to walk 4 times in the past 3 months. I have tremors every day. I have extreme pain every day, and I have began to feel "drunk" without medication or alchohol. My arms have gone dead at times, my muscles have hardened for no reason and been extremely painfull to move, sometimes for an hour, sometimes for a day.

Is this MS? I am now being sent to a nuerologist, should see them in Febuary. My primary care physician who is a nurse practitioner told me that my tremors look more like dystonia, but from looking at videos of people with MS experiencing tremors I would say mine look the same.

I am very scared, my husband is very depressed and angry, sometimes spiteful. I need help. Can anyone help me?

Do I have MS?

Hi Emmerawolf.
Welcome to ThisIsMS. I hope that you find a supportive community here. It's difficult to judge from the problems you're having whether or not you have MS. The majority of people here are not doctors and are not in a position to answer that question. However, I would try to keep an open mind and let your doctors run their gamut of tests on you. There are several conditions which can produce symptoms similar to MS, but which are actually treatable. By the way, don't overlook nutritional problems in your search. For example, some vitamin B deficiencies can produce neurological symptoms. Though it sounds like many of your symptoms started with your initial injury, so your current ones could still be related.

Best wishes, NHE

NHE wrote:
Hi Emmerawolf.
Welcome to ThisIsMS. I hope that you find a supportive community here. It's difficult to judge from the problems you're having whether or not you have MS. The majority of people here are not doctors and are not in a position to answer that question. However, I would try to keep an open mind and let your doctors run their gamut of tests on you. There are several conditions which can produce symptoms similar to MS, but which are actually treatable. By the way, don't overlook nutritional problems in your search. For example, some vitamin B deficiencies can produce neurological symptoms. Though it sounds like many of your symptoms started with your initial injury, so your current ones could still be related.

Best wishes, NHE

Thanks for replying

I am in a much better mood today. I have been tested for various defeciencies, and all came back negative except a slight vitamin D deficiency. Hoping the doctor can get me in sooner. Just got back from a massage, so feeling mighty fine right now. Thanks for taking interest!

E

Hey there. It certainly sounds like it could be MS. Poor you.

That slipped disc could have led to CCSVI perhaps? In any event, perhaps you should be thinking about getting tested for CCSVI at some point in the future. It is beginning to look as though, if you catch the illness early enough, you could get CCSVI treatment and never be troubled by MS again. At least it's beginning to look like there's a good chance..