New Symptoms
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 7:09 pm
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?
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?