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200213 tn?1202753099

Old user returning...:P(still having symptoms)

Hi everyone who might remember me!
I started posting here a year ago after I started to have a bunch of weird symptoms...
Went to different doctors and then a few times to my family-doc, who all thought that my symptoms (eye-pain when touching, visual 'disturbances'/black dots in vision, increased sensitivity in skin, headaches, nausea blabla...Tons of stuff) were caused by panic-attack/anxiety/hyperventilation.

After the eye-problems started, I went to an eyedoc who only found that my eyes were dry.
About the black dot, she thought it could be a floater. Never explained me HOW a floater could NOT float. (because the black,small, dot I see doesn't float when I move my eyes around. It's always in the middle of my vision sometimes accompanied by a few other black dots and comes and goes as I blink) The eye-pain continued and she told me, that if it does continue, I should talk with my family-doc. I did. After many months of waiting, in december last yr, I went to see my family-doc again. Also at the time I was experiencing nausea, wich lasted for 3 weeks until it stopped. She decided to send me to a neurologist, FINALLY. (after doing some auto-immune tests on me that were all negative)
Last month I then went to a neurologist, who told me she had 26 yrs of experience and she only did 2 tests. 2 TESTS. ONLY. Oh, took my blood-pressure too. Wow. :D

I never, ever mentioned her about my fear of MS (wich most of us have.), but after trying my reflexes (one from my arm and the other one from the bottom of my leg), she said; "You definitely don't have MS." Ok. Good. Then when trying to explain my symptoms she would immediately go; "IT'S NORMAL, PART OF IT. BLABLA." Because she diagnosed me with tension neck. Wich is basicly like giving the diagnose of 'depression' at a doctors office. So it's a very common diagnose.
I know I sound like Im unhappy, I am and am not, but I can't help but wonder. I also made the mistake of reading some neurology websites to see if there were others experiencing my symptoms and some of them were sayng, that seeing dots in vision is a sign of brain-tumor/MS. Someone with MS, in another thread had, had those black dots I see once in a while...She went to a neurologist and neuro, didn't find anything (from the reflexes). Now she has MS. So you probably can guess where Im going with this...

Im once again, in the beginning basicly. Been to a neurologist, told me I didn't have MS, did 2 reflex-tests and explained me stuff about the symptoms Im experiencing that not even another doctor would understand and such.

I was happy for a few weeks after going to the neurologist...Until I started to wonder, should I have taken that MRI? She offered me it, but after the reflexes she told me that the MRI was not needed anymore. (especially because it costs so much money) But what about brain-tumor? She didn't even take that as a possibility, considering I  have nausea, eye-pain and am seeing black dots in my eyes (both, once in a while, but mostly in one.)...

So. That's it. For now. Thought and would come here and just say how everything is right now...
I have nausea as a symptom for the moment. I got rid of it till christmas and now a few days ago it returned. Grrreat! Also having some headaches. (the last time I was having headaches aswell, hmm) Her explanation to that was a little different...Apparently doesn't have to do with tension neck, but rather that it could have been a symptom of some flu/virus or something.
So, I have the flu again? :DDDD Seriously? I mean, how can anyone take these people seriously?

Is anyone else here experiencing these black (NOT MOVING) dots in the vision?
Any ideas what it could be?

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Welcome back Ninah!  Yes, I remember you.  I never had dots in my eyes, but I have had terrible headaches, nausea, dizziness (24/7), trembling, and a pressure on my left eye where it feels someone is pulling it out...etc....I went to opthamologists, allergists, regular M.D.'s, hemotologists....ANYONE who would listen.  Finally to a Neurologist who I BEGGED to have an MRI....it came back normal.....final diagnosis...depression and anxiety.  I was then given medication and here I am, 13 years later, most of my symptoms are controlled by both meds and self-talk.  I have learned to talk myself out of extensive worry (for the most part) and anxiety attacks.  I understand the fear.  But until you can come to terms with yourself that it is anxiety it will just continue to consume your life. (I thought I had MS, lupus, HIV, and of course, THE DREADED BRAIN TUMOR!)

PS:  I would get the MRI anyway, if you still can!!!! It may help put you at ease..it is what I needed.
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299912 tn?1341623100
The only time I ever have visual disturbances is when I have anxiety (which can be a 24/7 thing) or when I get aura shortly before a migraine.

In my opinion, I would be willing to be you DO NOT have MS or any other such neurological malformation or disease. And the internet is BAD for looking up symptoms....of course you have some of the symptoms that people with MS/Tumor, etc. do, but you also have symptoms associated with anxiety and other nervous illness and many other illnesses in addition. Why not one of those then? I see it as that you are focused on one or two particular things that you more than likely do not have due to the test results, and by worrying about them, you are making the symptoms seem worse.

I think in your instance, go ahead and have an MRI, if it will make you feel better, but will it? If you have not trusted the tests and doctors fully thus far, then why would you trust a negative MRI? You can say that you would, but having nervous illness myself, with some hypochondria, I bet you would not. See, we would still ahve the symptoms and then convince ourselves that we have some "hidden illness" that no one can see...we just know we do (but in actuality we do not). This is no conspiracy theory here...

Regardless of what you do, this will continue to rob you of any happiness until you face your fears and accept them - then comes the healing part. Good Luck!

Mike
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