having MRI tomorrow

[tostressed]

I am a nervous wreck, My doctor is so tired of me thinking that I have ms that he has  finally said that he will give me one. I have to go tomorrow and I am so nervous. I have always been terrified of having MS because of my prickly tingly and itchy body. I do not have any other symptoms. My doctor says I would have more by now if I had ms. I just recently been diagnosed with restless leg syndrome and have been taking the requip and yes that has helped a lot. My grandmother and mother both have rls. I am just really antsy today and prickly and tingly all over. I am so afraid my doctor has been wrong and I have ms or something neurological wrong with me. I hate being like this. I am tired of being a hypochondriac who worries about my health all the time. I have been doing well, but now the mri. My doctor was laughing. He said I give you the mri and now you don't want to go. He doesn't expect anything to come back, but still can't stop worrying.

[suzi-q]

A friend of mine also got terrible anxiety from the levaquin also.  It took a while, but she recovered...Hope it works out well for you too!

[heartfluttersflyawayplz]

oh my i just took a 750mg one time pill two weeks ago and it threw me over anxiety. i had panic attack after panic attack all night did not sleep for 24 hours after that ive been having hot flashes and tingling all day long and a burning feeling . i have had the tingling before with anxiety butnot the hot flashes i have always had cold chills , i can relate with the levaquin, it took my body way out. i feel better but its been two weeks since i took one pill of it and iam still paying for it , i have took the 500mg before never botherd me but the 750 did . so dr said it could not be pill but i was great before i took it than 4 hours after i did my body and mind went nuts. yes never take it again or its faimly drugs like cipro , they gave that to me after the levaquin i took one pill same thing but not as bad. so sorry your going throught this but am there with you , and i did google it and wow could not belive how bad that drug is. hope and know you will be ok will just take time . have a great nite.

[tostressed]

All my symptoms got really bad after I took the 4, 500 mg of levaquin. I have not been the same since. I had my anxiety under control and this year after taking the levaquin it came back with a vengence. I have spoke with other people and have gone to a website that has victims and their symptoms. All match mine. I never tingled, prickled and itched like this before. My body aches. They are like relapses. My anxiety has been bad too. I am being treated for Restless Leg syndrome. My mother has it and my grandmother had this. The medecine has made me feel better, but not completely. I just don't know anymore. My doctor does not think that I have MS or anything serious, but what people don't understand is that I dont want to live like this anymore. I want my life back. I am tired of trying to figure all this out. IF the levaquin did do this it is considered to have been toxic to my body. It could take months or years to recover or maybe permanent. Levaquin is known to have caused peripheral neuropathy and that is what my body feels like it does sometimes. My chiro is going to talk to her neuro friend ablut my case and see if she can help me figure this out. OH, how I hope.
Thanks you everyone for your kind thought and comments. You have no idea what they do mean to me.

[heartfluttersflyawayplz]

did you have the mri for tingling of head/ears. i have that to my dr says i dont need mri its anxiety and i know it is i have had tignling for years and than it feels like burning with it. am going through that now . sometimes top my head sometimes back head most times on the ears thats strange , and no one i know has this . so i hate to say this but am glad someone elsa has it , but not glad know what i mean. ive had mine two weeks now. sometimes its real intense and others just all day long but not bad do you do that. i know your mri will be good. and when you had it did you have to go all the way in tube i had close places. my mom had it and she just went a little ways in. did you have dye to . ok thanks  and looking foward to your report that alls ok.

[suzi-q]

Hope all went well!  I am sure it did.  Keep us posted!  I forced my doctor to give me an MRI once for the "brain tumor" that I thought I had....thank goodness it was all in my "head"! (get the pun?)

[tanns]

Those closed MRI's are no fun.  My t-spine was open and I still felt weird because the top and bottom were so close to me.  When I had my brain MRI I had them cover my face with two washcloths so I couldn't see anything.  It was much more relaxing, well if that extremely loud hum can be considered relaxing!!!

I'm glad it went well and I will look forward to the update!!

Have a great day!

[tostressed]

Everything went good, I am still waiting the results. That was a horrible experience. I had to take a xanax before hand. I don't like to be in closed spaces. I just hope that everything comes back fine. Thank you for asking I will give an update as soon as I hear.

[tanns]

How was your mri?

[bowhunter0310]

Hope everything goes well with your MRI.  Are you having contrast with it at all?  If it makes you feel any better, I have had those same feelings for 8 years now, my brain and c-spine have been normal.  They are truly unbearable sometimes, I feel like SCREEEAAMMINGGGG!!!!!

Good Luck, keep us posted.

[tanns]

There have been times where day after day I thought I wouldn't make it through the day.  My chest issues cause such craziness in my head that I fear that it will be my last day at times.  I don't know why this happens or how to make it stop.  But during those times I find it even more necessary and therapeutic to spend times with my kids (4 and 5).  We play games, I read to them and we go for walks, a lot.  It is also during these times when it is the hardest.  Some times we just grab a book and look at the pictures and I let them tell me what they think is going on.  Sometimes we just put on a movie and snuggle on the couch.  I walk over laundry and look past the dust, those can be done another day.  I never, ever talk about how I feel in front of them.  I'll step outside to use the phone if I have to so they won't hear.  I use the computer only when they are playing and aren't wanting me but the minute they do, I stop.  It's hard and it sucks sometimes because I want to seek reassurance that I'm okay.  I am a little (okay, a lot) neurotic when it comes to my kids.  The last thing I want is for either one of them to feel what I'm feeling and I do all I can so that they don't.   Like I said before, this is very hard to do at times, especially when all I want to do is go in my room, close my eyes and pray it will all go away.  

I wish you both the very best and hope we can rid ourselves of this anxiety feeling.  It is NO fun.  

[bip]

I feel a little bit better I went for a walk with my boyz.  So much been going on for the past few months.  I worry so much to.  Im sick of worrying about what is going to happen next.  My sister should be fine I hope so.  My son feels a little bit better I had a talk with him. I want to be normal again.  I want to enjoy life my goal is get my anxiety under control.... I have bloated, and frequent urination I think this has alot to do with my stress and if I get my anxiety under control Ill feel better.  Hopefully.

Let me know how your test went...

[tostressed]

Thanks a lot for your responses. I really appreciate it. I am so tired of being like this. I had to take a xanax a hour ago and feel better. I hate taking the xanax, I only take it when I feel like this. My doctor shrugs off all my symptoms too. Always says you should be on a antidepressent. I can't take any of them, they give me a burning feeling in my head and heightens my anxiety. Plus i am not depressed either. I just want to stop being a crazy nut who thinks that a little headache is a tumor, or any weird sensation that I get is some deadly disease. Bip, I hope that you have calmed down some. I am sorry for the news on your sister. I also feel for you with your kids. My odest (6 years) says the same thing to me. You never want to do anything with me. I hate it. They are the main reason that I need to get better.

[tanns]

If anything the MRI will eleviate your fears.  My sister-in-law has very progressive MS and never had any tingling or prickly feelings (she was diagnosed in 95).  She was more clumsy (at first) and we use to laugh because she tripped over everything and knocked over everything.  That was until a car accident where she couldn't get her feet right.  That is when her testing began and she was diagnosed.   THAT BEING SAID, my good friend's mother in law has MS and has for a long, long time.  She has very few symptoms except fatigue.  It was diagnosed by accident.

Anyway, the MRI will help you, I think.  I know I had a brain MRI for headaches that were driving me crazy.  I had the MRI and wouldn't you know, after the "all-clear" those headaches went away.  I also had tingling on the very top of my head.  I used to tell my doctor about this and he'd just say, "uh huh" and thought nothing of it.  That also stopped after my MRI.  This anxiety thing is amazing.  It is crazy what it can do to the body.

Anyway, this was just to let you know that the two people I know with MS don't have the tingling and prickly thing that often causes alarm in those of us with those symptoms and makes us fear it.

I wish you good luck tomorrow and I hope you'll post back on how it went.

[bip]

I think its good your getting a mri so your mind will be eased.  Im sure its just anxiety the symptons your  getting I think your anxiety is  will be better once you get the mri done.  Im sick of being a hypercondrac I worry about everything to...   when are you getting the MRI?
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