Odd symptoms
Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 6:47 am
Hello everyone! I am reaching out on here to get some insight, advice or whatever words anyone is willing to offer. I've had a variety of symptoms over the years and I was keeping a record of them, however I had lost it not too long ago. So using some memory and detective work (and Facebook), I was able to compile my symptoms again to the best of my ability.
March 2013- I started having severe pain in both of my eyes and eventually, started getting blurred and partially greyed out vision. It was as if there were big grey blobs in the middle of my field of vision. I couldn't drive, could hardly work. I went to the eye doctor and she said my eyes were fine and suggested I see a neurologist. I was diagnosed with Optic Neuritis and that's when I first heard of MS. The neurologist suggested it as a possibility. I received a few MRIs of my head and the neurologist said there were a few spots on my brain and ordered a spinal tap.
April 2013- Received spinal tap and the test results came back negative. No sort of follow up was done and eventually this neurologist left town.
Fast forward to February 2015- I had an entire day where I was getting strange feelings in the back of my head such as tingling, numbness, etc. I was also extremely exhausted and weak. I could hardly make it up the two flights of stairs at my place of work without feeling like I ran a marathon. Eventually, this feeling got better.
November 16th, 2015- I woke up to the right side of my face completely swollen, it went away by the next day.
November 22nd, 2015- A painful, itchy rash appeared on my back, right side of ribs and ride side of abdomen. I had to see a back up doctor since my primary was out of town. He confirmed it as shingles, which was a shock to the nursing staff since I am only 31 years old. No treatment was done as the shingles were already pretty developed and they went away in about a week.
Now to the present, May 2016- One day I woke up with my eyelids twitching almost CONSTANTLY. I would sometimes feel twitches in other random parts of my body, but it was mainly my eyes. I went to an urgent care doctor and he suggested I try and drink tonic water. Tried, didn't really help. During this time, I was (and still am) extremely exhausted, like I was before. I feel like I have no desire to do anything simply because it's just too exhausting. My eyes have been twitching for going on 4 weeks straight. I also sometimes get sharp pains in my chest, mainly at night. I also get bad back pain, sometimes pain in my legs and arms and in my joints.
Now all these symptoms are so confusing, because I've read that some of these can be linked to MS and I've also read that they're not. I don't like my current primary doctor because any time I see him about something new, he adamant that it's just stress, but I'm really not all that stressed. I'm known to be a pretty optimistic person, so when I'm feeling deflated and exhausted like recently, my family thinks it to be strange. So I'm in the market for a new primary. Now, I do have an appointment with a new neurologist tomorrow, but before I went I kind of wanted to get people's input on what I've been feeling. So anything thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
March 2013- I started having severe pain in both of my eyes and eventually, started getting blurred and partially greyed out vision. It was as if there were big grey blobs in the middle of my field of vision. I couldn't drive, could hardly work. I went to the eye doctor and she said my eyes were fine and suggested I see a neurologist. I was diagnosed with Optic Neuritis and that's when I first heard of MS. The neurologist suggested it as a possibility. I received a few MRIs of my head and the neurologist said there were a few spots on my brain and ordered a spinal tap.
April 2013- Received spinal tap and the test results came back negative. No sort of follow up was done and eventually this neurologist left town.
Fast forward to February 2015- I had an entire day where I was getting strange feelings in the back of my head such as tingling, numbness, etc. I was also extremely exhausted and weak. I could hardly make it up the two flights of stairs at my place of work without feeling like I ran a marathon. Eventually, this feeling got better.
November 16th, 2015- I woke up to the right side of my face completely swollen, it went away by the next day.
November 22nd, 2015- A painful, itchy rash appeared on my back, right side of ribs and ride side of abdomen. I had to see a back up doctor since my primary was out of town. He confirmed it as shingles, which was a shock to the nursing staff since I am only 31 years old. No treatment was done as the shingles were already pretty developed and they went away in about a week.
Now to the present, May 2016- One day I woke up with my eyelids twitching almost CONSTANTLY. I would sometimes feel twitches in other random parts of my body, but it was mainly my eyes. I went to an urgent care doctor and he suggested I try and drink tonic water. Tried, didn't really help. During this time, I was (and still am) extremely exhausted, like I was before. I feel like I have no desire to do anything simply because it's just too exhausting. My eyes have been twitching for going on 4 weeks straight. I also sometimes get sharp pains in my chest, mainly at night. I also get bad back pain, sometimes pain in my legs and arms and in my joints.
Now all these symptoms are so confusing, because I've read that some of these can be linked to MS and I've also read that they're not. I don't like my current primary doctor because any time I see him about something new, he adamant that it's just stress, but I'm really not all that stressed. I'm known to be a pretty optimistic person, so when I'm feeling deflated and exhausted like recently, my family thinks it to be strange. So I'm in the market for a new primary. Now, I do have an appointment with a new neurologist tomorrow, but before I went I kind of wanted to get people's input on what I've been feeling. So anything thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
Ripped my pants, scraped my knee bad, got soaked, dunked my phone and all my belongings in water... was not a fun day. Though I'm still sore, I'm laughing about it now! LOL