Post Viral? Weakness and Tingling/Burning after flu

[Shortyrock]

Hi I'm Jeff, I'm 28 years old and live in Toronto Canada...
I need help trying to figure out what's happening to me...
I'll start from the beginning...In November 2009 I started to get a sharp burning pain in my back...by my left shoulder blade...by the end of December the burning pain had spread to the right side then to the top of my stomach....the pain was a daily thing and varied in intensity throughout the day...but remained the same for about 6 months.
Then at the end of May...I caught a sore throat from my girlfriend, lymph nodes on each side of my neck swelled up which has never happened to me before...other than the enlarged nodes there was nothing unusual about the cold...runny nose...cough...and very sore throat..........in a couple days the cold subsided...and i started to get tingling in my legs and arms....then my eyelids started to burn and my eyes went red...that went away in a couple days....the tingling and burning in my legs and arms continued and increased in intensity....my legs and arms started to feel really weak....by the 3rd week of June my legs were so weak I had trouble walking.....by the end of June I could barely stand and was tingling and burning all over my body....I checked into the hospital in the beginning of July....the doctors in the ER suspected GBS....so they did a spinal tap and admitted me.....the spinal tap came back normal...they did an MRI of my brain and spine which were also normal....then an EMG and Nerve conduction tests which were also normal....they decided to release me and let me follow up from home (which i wasn't very happy about since I could still barely walk)
It's now July 16th and I'm still really weak in my arms and legs and back of my neck....and I get a light burning or tingling sensation all over my legs..genital area..arms...and sometimes neck face and chest....It's very scary as I have a 10 month old son and I'm really worried about what's happening to me....I have an appointment with another Neurologist in a week and a half.....
What does everybody think??
Post Viral???
Will I ever be back to normal??

[Shortyrock]

Well....my first Neurologist appointment was a big waste of time....He went over the MRI's I had done on my Brain and Spine...Tested my strength and reflexes again...then sat me down and said ...
"I don't think that we're gonna find out what's happening to you here, maybe I can refer you to somebody with more resources"
I couldn't believe he said that....Meanwhile after 7 weeks I'm still dealing with waves of Burning and weakness all over my body....
I'm glad I set up appointments with multiple specialists....I have another appointment tomorrow...I'm praying this one will be more compassionate.....

[supermum_ms]

Hi there,

I'm not a dr but it sounds more post viral than MS to me, reason is mainly in your description. It would be highly unusual for the parathesia seen in MS to first present as "all over" (4 limbs, trunk and face), its more one sided or one limb, and its usually in odd spots and not the entire limb. a basic example for burning/heat/hot spot = left side of the left foot.  

Everyone is different but the commonality is 'odd spots' the 'all over' traveling over a short period of time that your experiencing, makes it less likely to be MS. At the top of your screen you'll find a yellow icon which is our health pages, if you read those relating to Parathesia it will help to clarify the differences.

I still think you need to be seen by a dr, what you are experiencing needs to be sorted out, btw it reminds me of what my daughter experienced when she had a virus that was similar to glandular fever, it took about 4-6 months to get it out of her system.

Cheers.........JJ