New Symptoms

[ua08]

Long post warning:

I have a nueuro appt next month. Last year I was here discussing heat sensitivity that sent tons of pins and needles shocks down my spine/crawling up back of my head for a good bit. It happened for a few months and would come when I least expected it. Never really had any symptoms for a year -- at least that I noticed and said, "These are odd."

Then I was out to eat this past October and was with a friend. I had noticed my hands tingling a bit but it seemed to happen when I got flushed and hot and wouldn't go away until my body cooled. Well, I got done eating and took a step and my both legs tingled from my knees down. They tingled with every step -- like a crawl + shock. I got home and noticed when I sat down they were still tingling. Since then they've tingled almost 24/7 to this day. It started mainly in my feet -- and it still is -- but I can now feel it in my calves and occasionally upwards to my knees and in my thighs. The constant tingle is in my lower legs from the calves down, though. The tingling reaches a point of "numbness" later in the day. I will lay down for bed and they will be tingling and I know they are touching each other but I can't feel it. However, I move then and can feel them fine once I do that. I also feel off and on burning and prickling in my extremities (namely the legs).

I've also had chest pain. It's a pain that is sharp and on the left side of my chest. It comes and goes over the course of 15-30 minutes it seems, but it's painful and makes me grimace and take very short breaths so I don't breathe in too much and feel it.

Also had a lot of muscle twitches in my legs as well, as well as muscle and leg weakness when they are tingling heavily. Also, the tingling seems worse at certain points in the day.

I also think I have had unnatural fatigue. I feel like I could fall over, and almost disoriented like my head is throbbing/heart beating hard after walking around the grocery store or on campus.

These are just a few symptoms. I am 23, my grandmother had MS and my aunt has MS. You won't scare me with anything. What are your thoughts about my symptoms, etc. I have a hard time describing it as numbness because I've become so accustomed to knowing numbness as the inability to feel whatever it is that is numb. For me, the tingling is just a dull tingle (like cling wrap, or ants crawling on my skin) and such at it's least, and an intense "carbonation popping and rushing underneath my skin" feeling when it is intense. It never goes completely away -- at least not since I first felt it in October. The pins and needles seem to come throughout the day at random times. Th at is very quick and sudden, and leaves pretty quickly. Anyone have tingling and such last this long? Can anyone relate to this type of tingling?

[MarkLavelle]

Can anyone relate to this type of tingling?

You bet! FYI, the official term is paresthesia (http://www.iasp-pain.org/AM/Template.cf ... entID=1728).

Good luck with your neuro appointment...

[lyndacarol]

Mark is correct, the term is paresthesia.

My recommendation works for you, ua08, as well as for Sarah: http://www.thisisms.com/forum/post186258.html#p186258

All the best to you.

[ua08]

Another new symptom. My head has a minor tremor I think. I've noticed it when I'm sitting or relaxed (not laying down). It's a minor yes-yes tremor. It doesn't happen all the time, but I notice it and if I focus on it I can make it stop. Is this, I guess, typical?

[Lyon]

Wow, hard to tell but my wife's older sister has always had that (not diagnosed with MS) and my wife has it (is diagnosed with MS) and I don't think either of them knows that their heads jiggle around just a tiny bit.

In the years preceding her MS diagnosis she went to the hospital several times because she thought she was having heart problems but they could never find anything wrong with their tests. Earlier it was panic attacks and later it was tight chest, which we now thing was MS "hug".

She's never had any of the problems normally associated with MS, Optic Neuritis/fatigue/temperature sensitivity.

[mrbarlow]

sounds similar to my symptoms.

FWIW - my advice is don't wait for the Neuro to tell you you have MS - start looking into diets / supplementation now. This site is a great resource.

[icecube2]

Hi!


Its the chest pain that concerns me, and because of that fact, you need to get checked by your doctor, you can never be too careful on that one, it may be just some kind of anxiety attack, that also affects your breathing, but all the same you need to get it checked out.


Fiona

[mikeyjinx]

Another new symptom. My head has a minor tremor I think. I've noticed it when I'm sitting or relaxed (not laying down). It's a minor yes-yes tremor. It doesn't happen all the time, but I notice it and if I focus on it I can make it stop. Is this, I guess, typical?

I also have the "yes-yes" tremor. I've had it since my early 20's (40 now) along with occasional chest pain. It comes from my heart compensating for a leaking aortic valve. Not saying this is the cause of yours, but it's a thought. Is it in time with your heart beat?

[ua08]

Another new symptom. My head has a minor tremor I think. I've noticed it when I'm sitting or relaxed (not laying down). It's a minor yes-yes tremor. It doesn't happen all the time, but I notice it and if I focus on it I can make it stop. Is this, I guess, typical?

I also have the "yes-yes" tremor. I've had it since my early 20's (40 now) along with occasional chest pain. It comes from my heart compensating for a leaking aortic valve. Not saying this is the cause of yours, but it's a thought. Is it in time with your heart beat?

Sorta, what I noticed is when it is noticeable -- like when I am sitting and realize I am doing it and then wonder if I am subconsciously making myself do it out of conversion, etc from reading all about symptoms -- is it basically feels like it's pulsating. My head basically does the "yes-yes" in coordination with a pulsating feeling like my heart is beating and I can feel it and such. This is also the feeling I get when I walk long distances and then relax while standing up or sit down. My head throbs. Not with pain, but just as if I am exhausted and lightheaded and such. Not sure if that makes sense.

[mikeyjinx]

Makes sense to me. I've had the same feelings before. One thing that I've come to realize is that when I'm feeling bad I'm hyper aware about every little thing my body does. Something that may have seemed insignificant before I now automatically want to attribute to ms. You may need a xanax. lol. They help me. Alot

[ua08]

Had my neuro appt today.

Didn't pass the muscle strength tests, was wobbly on my balance test, not terrible just swayed when having feet together and eyes closed. Took 8 vials of blood testing for a lot of stuff -- b12, thyroid things, sjorgens's -- and was supposed to have an MRI today. Didn't happen due to my insurance requiring a referral to cover it. Stupid to me. Whatever. Thoughts anyone?

[MarkLavelle]

Thoughts anyone?

Yeah: What did the doc say?

[ua08]

Thoughts anyone?

Yeah: What did the doc say?

Not a whole lot yet. Was alarmed that I have family history of MS, but was quick to say that susceptibility is generally only recognized or seen from first generation relatives (in my case, it's second -- my grandmother). Issued the MRI because my symptoms date back two years and if there are any lesions he thinks they'll be easily noticed. My thoughts are that if the bloodwork comes back fine, then that means it has to be something else that would show up on an MRI, right?

[MarkLavelle]

Unfortunately, a single MRI will add information to the dx process but will not necessarily (or even likely) be definitive.