Newly diagnosed as possible MS
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 12:46 pm
Hi everyone-
This is my first time posting here! It has been such a long, crazy summer for me! It actually all started a year ago with crazy awful fatigue. I got tons of blood work done, and everything came back fine. My doctor suggested I was depressed. I was depressed, because I was so tired all the time! So I never really went back.
In March I started with these crazy wicked vertigo and dizzy spells. It would feel like the whole floor was coming up on me and spinning.
In April I started feeling this awful sensation in my chest, almost as it was tightening and hard to breath. Went to the ER, every test on my heart came back fine.
In May I started with this super weird perception issue. I felt like my arms and hands were not where they were suppose to be. And they looked funny to me. And wouldn't really do what I wanted. I saw my family doctor, who said I had anxiety. Knowing I did not have anxiety, I made an appointment on my own to see a nuerologist. They ordered a MRI (no contrast) which came back clean. A week after the MRI, I lost part of my vision in my left eye, and see a constant flashing light.
Went to 3 different opthamologists, who said my eye was fine. Had a MRI of my brain and optic nerves, this time with contrast, and it came back normal.
My nuerologist suggested I have a spinal tap to rule out MS. My mom also has MS, and she never had lesions on her brain when first diagnosed. My spinal tap came back last week positive for oligoclonal bands.
Next week I have a MRI of my spine, and all of the evoked potential tests.
Hope to figure this out once and for all.
This is my first time posting here! It has been such a long, crazy summer for me! It actually all started a year ago with crazy awful fatigue. I got tons of blood work done, and everything came back fine. My doctor suggested I was depressed. I was depressed, because I was so tired all the time! So I never really went back.
In March I started with these crazy wicked vertigo and dizzy spells. It would feel like the whole floor was coming up on me and spinning.
In April I started feeling this awful sensation in my chest, almost as it was tightening and hard to breath. Went to the ER, every test on my heart came back fine.
In May I started with this super weird perception issue. I felt like my arms and hands were not where they were suppose to be. And they looked funny to me. And wouldn't really do what I wanted. I saw my family doctor, who said I had anxiety. Knowing I did not have anxiety, I made an appointment on my own to see a nuerologist. They ordered a MRI (no contrast) which came back clean. A week after the MRI, I lost part of my vision in my left eye, and see a constant flashing light.
Went to 3 different opthamologists, who said my eye was fine. Had a MRI of my brain and optic nerves, this time with contrast, and it came back normal.
My nuerologist suggested I have a spinal tap to rule out MS. My mom also has MS, and she never had lesions on her brain when first diagnosed. My spinal tap came back last week positive for oligoclonal bands.
Next week I have a MRI of my spine, and all of the evoked potential tests.
Hope to figure this out once and for all.