Symptoms that don't add up

[feebee630]

Please help!  I'm a 25 yr old female.  Very worried about my symptoms and have no answers yet.  I went to a neuro who performed EMGs in which everything came back normal.  She suggested I go see a neuro in a big hospital but no one will accept my insurance.  Here's my short story:

In April of this year I was very fatigued and had vertigo and in bed for most of the time for 2 weeks.  I had blood tests which showed thyroid antibodies so my PCP said it was a thyroid infection.  In July I started getting vertigo that was pretty bad at times and would make me nauseous.  I went back to the PCP who said it could be BPPV.  During late August I started getting all over body/face fasciculations that are still present till this day.  The vertigo is still coming and going.  I also have some tingling sensations in random places that come and go and have gotten a buzzing sensation under my feet that would come and go. I am heat sensitive and it will cause the vertigo to get worse.  I have no weakness.  This morning I woke up and felt wetness in my pants.  I went to check in the bathroom and it looked like it may have been urine (this is a first time occurrence).   I'm worried that all the previous symptoms are linked to the present ones.  I'm more worried now because of what happened this morning.  I thought everything might be separate occurrences but now I'm hoping it's not incontinence.  Do these symptoms sound like MS?  I wish I had a definite answer to what is going on with me.

[Quixotic1]

Hi, and welcome.  No I do not think that these sound like MS.  MS has much more localized symptoms rather than ones that move around and diffuse twitching like you describe.

MS is a disease of specific lesions on localized nerves.

What you describe sounds "systemic" - that is effects all over.  Causes of systemic neurological symptoms would be things like Vitamin deficiency, thyroud disease ( a possibility for you), infections, especially Lyme Disease, and autimmune diseases.

Besides any other testing I would recommend one or two Western Blot tests for Lyme Disease.  Lyme is what I thought of as you described your symptoms.  But, since you already have abnormalities in your thyroid tests, that rises to the top of the list.

I hope this helps.

Quix

[wadeheather]

Try the neurology forum. On the main page there's community forums on the left and expert forums on the right.

[feebee630]

Thanks Heather.  Do you know how I could post on the expert forum?  I'm going a little nuts!

[wadeheather]

Welcome to the forum! None of us are doctors here, just friends, and all have different experiences. I get a lot of the same symptoms that you do, but am not dx with MS.
I think you should talk to your dr about incontinence if it happens again. I actually need to do that too, but I have been procrastinating.

Feel better.
Heather