MS Symptoms
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2016 2:15 am
Dear Friends,
I am a 37 yo Irish male. I developed diabetes (T2 w Insulin) in 2005 and is generally well managed. I was told that my initial symptoms (every conceivable & awful pain sensation in my feet with numbness & body fatigue) was due to diabetes which caused peripheral neuropathy. I found great pain med combos and managed and still do manage my diabetes relatively well to this day.
Skip to 2013 and I find out I have an asymptomatic lung disease called sarcoidosis but told it will go off its own accord and no treatment was necessary. A routine lung scan showed liver problems and a biopsy confirmed that sarcoidosis has caused liver cirrhosis at an early stage but thankfully no treatment needed but like the lungs its monitored closely. 2015 a skin biopsy confirms skin sarcoidosis.
June 2015 I had to quit work due to bad fatigue and I'm still out. Mid 2015 start 2016 some new symptoms develop which is why I'm here to seek advice from your own experiences. I'm told that one you have one auto immune disease your very much open to others and MS is an auto immune disease, I believe?
New symptoms in order of first appearance:
1.) Mid 2015: Started to experience one of my eyes going very blurry which can last for a few hours and then completely go only to come back another day in the opposite eye but always one eye at a time, I wear glasses full time and had a recent eye test for new lenses and no problems were detected. Intensity has increased to date.
I also started to have trouble with severe aches in legs and can hardly move, sometimes feels like I've done a massive workout in the gym with the muscle stiffness. But this comes and goes, some days I feel fine.
1.5) End 2015: Started to get awful pains in my fingers, hands, arms, legs and feet like stabbing, burning, tingling, pin prick, needle etc Hands very bad though. Started stronger opiates in May which have really helped but there are still days when I'm in pain.
2.) Jan 2016 to present: I notice on my calf muscles lots of minute twitching in both legs, not painful but looks pretty weird, seldomly they are strong enough to initiate a full calf spasm.
3.) March 2016 to present: Hand tremors especially when holding my phone or something similar.
4.) April 2016 to present: obvious jerks of my limbs which has increased in intensity, others have also noticed this. They seem to be getting stronger especially in my legs. Also Numbness in my hands. I'm constantly finding cuts on my hands and don't know where they came from. Ive so many scars on my hands from the last few months alone than I have from my entire life.
5.) April 2016 to present: every few days I seem to drag my right foot when walking, doesn't happen all the time but when it does it will happen a few times in a day. (Note: My right lower leg looks a lot thinner than my left leg, maybe nothing but important to mention.)
6.) May 2016 to present: On occasion I notice strange sensations, for example, I will be going to use my finger to type on my iPad and there feels like there is a problem in trying to do this like a feeling of delay, it's so so weird, i must sound crazzzyyyy.
7.) Last two weeks: I've always suffered a little with depression but over the last two weeks and last Thursday especially I was watching a comedy from the 80's. When it finished I was so sad it's hard to describe. I felt a huge emptiness in knowing that one of the actors was dead and the other is very old. It was a sadness like as if someone I knew had died. The emptiness was so bad. I cant explain why this happened and something similar happened two weeks ago too. I've never experienced anything like this and has really scared me. My mood is up and down as well.
8.) lots of headaches too with tingling sensations on my face and scalp.
That's it, so sorry for the length of this message but I want to be accurate and to see if anybody thinks this might be MS (my wife does based on symptoms) I know people here can't diagnose me but I just want to get their thoughts and advice. My diabetic doctor has booked me in for nerve conduction tests and some other test but it's in October. Also my Sarcoidosis doc is booking me in for a brain MRI but probably won't be until 2017 with the huge delays in our public hospitals in Ireland. Those tests will shed some light, I hope.
Thank you all very much.
John
I am a 37 yo Irish male. I developed diabetes (T2 w Insulin) in 2005 and is generally well managed. I was told that my initial symptoms (every conceivable & awful pain sensation in my feet with numbness & body fatigue) was due to diabetes which caused peripheral neuropathy. I found great pain med combos and managed and still do manage my diabetes relatively well to this day.
Skip to 2013 and I find out I have an asymptomatic lung disease called sarcoidosis but told it will go off its own accord and no treatment was necessary. A routine lung scan showed liver problems and a biopsy confirmed that sarcoidosis has caused liver cirrhosis at an early stage but thankfully no treatment needed but like the lungs its monitored closely. 2015 a skin biopsy confirms skin sarcoidosis.
June 2015 I had to quit work due to bad fatigue and I'm still out. Mid 2015 start 2016 some new symptoms develop which is why I'm here to seek advice from your own experiences. I'm told that one you have one auto immune disease your very much open to others and MS is an auto immune disease, I believe?
New symptoms in order of first appearance:
1.) Mid 2015: Started to experience one of my eyes going very blurry which can last for a few hours and then completely go only to come back another day in the opposite eye but always one eye at a time, I wear glasses full time and had a recent eye test for new lenses and no problems were detected. Intensity has increased to date.
I also started to have trouble with severe aches in legs and can hardly move, sometimes feels like I've done a massive workout in the gym with the muscle stiffness. But this comes and goes, some days I feel fine.
1.5) End 2015: Started to get awful pains in my fingers, hands, arms, legs and feet like stabbing, burning, tingling, pin prick, needle etc Hands very bad though. Started stronger opiates in May which have really helped but there are still days when I'm in pain.
2.) Jan 2016 to present: I notice on my calf muscles lots of minute twitching in both legs, not painful but looks pretty weird, seldomly they are strong enough to initiate a full calf spasm.
3.) March 2016 to present: Hand tremors especially when holding my phone or something similar.
4.) April 2016 to present: obvious jerks of my limbs which has increased in intensity, others have also noticed this. They seem to be getting stronger especially in my legs. Also Numbness in my hands. I'm constantly finding cuts on my hands and don't know where they came from. Ive so many scars on my hands from the last few months alone than I have from my entire life.
5.) April 2016 to present: every few days I seem to drag my right foot when walking, doesn't happen all the time but when it does it will happen a few times in a day. (Note: My right lower leg looks a lot thinner than my left leg, maybe nothing but important to mention.)
6.) May 2016 to present: On occasion I notice strange sensations, for example, I will be going to use my finger to type on my iPad and there feels like there is a problem in trying to do this like a feeling of delay, it's so so weird, i must sound crazzzyyyy.
7.) Last two weeks: I've always suffered a little with depression but over the last two weeks and last Thursday especially I was watching a comedy from the 80's. When it finished I was so sad it's hard to describe. I felt a huge emptiness in knowing that one of the actors was dead and the other is very old. It was a sadness like as if someone I knew had died. The emptiness was so bad. I cant explain why this happened and something similar happened two weeks ago too. I've never experienced anything like this and has really scared me. My mood is up and down as well.
8.) lots of headaches too with tingling sensations on my face and scalp.
That's it, so sorry for the length of this message but I want to be accurate and to see if anybody thinks this might be MS (my wife does based on symptoms) I know people here can't diagnose me but I just want to get their thoughts and advice. My diabetic doctor has booked me in for nerve conduction tests and some other test but it's in October. Also my Sarcoidosis doc is booking me in for a brain MRI but probably won't be until 2017 with the huge delays in our public hospitals in Ireland. Those tests will shed some light, I hope.
Thank you all very much.
John