Let me try to do a quick summary without boring you all: I'm a 19 year old girl who has had weird symptoms since I was around 16 (random sharp pains in fingers/toes, numbness, tingling, frequent urination/incontinence, skin burning/hurting, dizziness, fatigue, pain). It started with the sharp pains in my fingers and toes and bladder problems and around the same time I was diagnosed with depression. Around two years ago my grandma was diagnosed with MS which was actually the first time I ever heard about it and started reading up on it. After reading about it I found that a lot of the things my grandma was experiencing seemed quite similar to what I was/am too.
Last November is when things got really bad all of a sudden. For two weeks I was dizzy and my vision became blurry, and I was nearly falling down when I walked. My legs began getting really shaky and sore and I could no longer walk up or down the stairs in my house without wanting to cry from the pain. I saw my primary doctor who sent me to the ER for an MRI but the doctors at the ER said they couldn't perform the MRI so they took blood to rule other things out and everything came back fine. I went back to my primary doctor and he recommended a neurologist, and after three months of waiting for my appointment, I finally went today.
He did the usual things that I'm sure you are all familiar with if you've seen a neurologist; made me walk in a straight line, checked my eyes, hearing, had me move my fingers and touch his finger then my nose etc. After I told him about my dizziness and blurry vision that lasted for two weeks, he said that he thought I might have Vestibular Neuritis which I had never heard of before but apparently it's some type of infection in the ear that causes vertigo (or something along those lines). After I told him about my legs hurting it seemed like he ruled out Vestibular Neuritis but he still wrote it down for me to read up on. He still wants me to get an MRI which I am going for in 3 weeks.
Sorry if this is so long, it' just been really difficult the last few months waiting and wondering and not getting any answers which I'm sure you all feel too! It's tough since I'm 19 and want to do normal things like hang out with friends but instead stay home because I'm in pain the majority of the time. Even though it's hard I know there are tons of other people in the same boat which is at least a tiny bit reassuring!
Anyway, my main question is if anyone here has had a neuro suggest Vestibular Neuritis instead of MS? I suppose it explains the vertigo but I don't really think it explains all my other symptoms?