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Paresthesias, Body Twitches - MS?
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Paresthesias, Body Twitches - MS?
by jsoh, Apr 15, 2002 12:00AM
I am a 25 year old female. No major health problems. Here are my symptoms:
6 weeks ago began experiencing mild numbness/tingling/achy feeling in right arm/hands/fingers. This was precitated by some hand pain after using a knife to cut a hard object. One week after that began experiencing same symptoms in left arm. The symptoms were not constant but frequent. A week after the left arm, I had mild numbness/tingling in my left ankle. The next day, my entire left leg felt asleep. This last about one day. For the next four weeks, I experienced this mild numbness and tingling in both feet, ankles, lower leg, arms, hands, fingers, upper back, face, head, and neck. The symptoms usually lasted from an hour to several hours. But for four weeks I usually had some symptom in some part of my body. Then the symptoms started to fade off. Since that time, I also developed some body twitches/jerks in most parts of my body that happened throughout the day. This lasted a week and kind of faded off. Now I seem to just have numbness/tingling in my fingers or feet that may last an hour every once in a while. Sometimes my arms/fingers feel achy. In addition, sometimes after using my hands/fingers for heavy use they tend to feel wierd and sometimes I have a tremor in my hands. I had a brain MRI that came back clear (I was experiencing the numbness/tingling in both feet at the time.) I am very concerned that I have MS. What else could it be? I have an appt. with a neurologist soon, but I am very worried. Does this sound like MS or anything else
6 weeks ago began experiencing mild numbness/tingling/achy feeling in right arm/hands/fingers. This was precitated by some hand pain after using a knife to cut a hard object. One week after that began experiencing same symptoms in left arm. The symptoms were not constant but frequent. A week after the left arm, I had mild numbness/tingling in my left ankle. The next day, my entire left leg felt asleep. This last about one day. For the next four weeks, I experienced this mild numbness and tingling in both feet, ankles, lower leg, arms, hands, fingers, upper back, face, head, and neck. The symptoms usually lasted from an hour to several hours. But for four weeks I usually had some symptom in some part of my body. Then the symptoms started to fade off. Since that time, I also developed some body twitches/jerks in most parts of my body that happened throughout the day. This lasted a week and kind of faded off. Now I seem to just have numbness/tingling in my fingers or feet that may last an hour every once in a while. Sometimes my arms/fingers feel achy. In addition, sometimes after using my hands/fingers for heavy use they tend to feel wierd and sometimes I have a tremor in my hands. I had a brain MRI that came back clear (I was experiencing the numbness/tingling in both feet at the time.) I am very concerned that I have MS. What else could it be? I have an appt. with a neurologist soon, but I am very worried. Does this sound like MS or anything else
Doctor's Answer
by CCF-Neuro-M.D.-JT, Apr 15, 2002 12:00AM
MS is always a consideration when vague symptoms of numbness and tingling are present in a young woman. An important test would be further imaging of your spinal cord with an MRI w/ dye. If this is positive for lesions, a spinal tap would be the next step. If not, consider an EMG to evaluate the sensory symptoms and see if there is a problem in the nerves from the spinal cord going out ot the limbs. There are certainly other disorders that this could represent such as a peripheral neuropathy (of numerous causes) either acquired or something you were born with/inherited familially. B12 deficiency is also a possibility.Your neurologist should be able to point you int he right direction. Good luck.
Quite a while ago I experienced numbness, pins and needles and pressure in my head. It would come and go all the time. Sometimes it feels like someone is pushing on spots on my legs. I also feared that I had MS, but the MRI showed up clear. The doctors have had no answers for me. Over time it has faded. The biggest way it effects me, is that it comes on when I try to exercise. As soon as my pulse rate increases, I feel pressure in my head, and weird nerve things happening in my body. Do you have any trouble exercising?
I think the most similar symptom is the way that the numbness and pins and needles comes and goes.
This has been going on for almost a year for me.
I have had extensive blood work and my doctor found my results normal. He referred me to a neurologist. I don't go till the end of May. I almost cancelled the appointment because my symptoms disappeared for two week and just returned the other day. It doesn't keep me awake at all.
Other than that, I feel great. I exercise and have lots of energy and have no feelings of loss of strength. I think what is making it worse is how anxious I become when I have a "new" feeling. I wonder if it is related. I am trying very hard to put it out of my mind. Please keep us posted on your progress.
Now I have started to get dizzy and nausated for three or four days a week. Missed work all last week because of being dizzy. Now they are gonna send me to a gland specialist....because I am having hot and cold sweats. I am female/48.....and some people think it could all be due to menopause. Have anyone else had any of those symptons???THANKS!!!
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