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MS, Lyme, Weird Symptoms, No diagnosis yet

by Gaucho25, Jul 13, 2009 11:21PM
Hi, I have been reading this forum and its quite interesting. Some posts date from 2005.. and I wonder if those people ever got diagnosed with something since they never posted back anything.
In my case, I was working one day (july 31st, 2008) i suddenly became incredibly lightheaded, confused,felt really slow and couldn't process information correctly, I felt like I was drunk. The next day I experienced dizziness that lasted 11 days... Sometimes I couldnt keep up a conversation because I would get lost, I would forget what the conversation was about etc... I remember I couldnt read anything because I would completely forget what I was reading about. It was horrible!!!.. When the dizziness went away, I still felt a chronic brain fog, I had to think too much to do everything, even go to the market and buy groceries would be a hard task to do. Also remember chronic headaches, pain behind my eyes.
Today, July 14, 2009 (almost a year later) I have other symptoms like back pain (upper spine, near neck), pins and needles all over sometimes, tired upper arms...sporadic muscle twitches, chronic back contractures, burning sensations on skin in different areas of the body, sometimes my left pupil is larger than the right one, sporadic headaches and eye pain, one of my nuckles of my left hand bothers me, as well as my right wrist...(this has been going on for the past 3 weeks)...sometimes i feel sort of lightheaded and tired... and a few times I exerienced a vibrating sensation in my hands and feet.
My visual symptoms never went away since last year... they consisted in an increment of floaters, moving little dots (look like sperm swiming), i notice afterimages after i see fast object such as hands waving... I feel like it leaves a short image after it moves...it is weird and hard to explain. Also at night I see halos around lights with my left eye...not always, sometimes, and it doesnt not correlate with a headache afterwards or before. When I wake up in the morning I feel like my eyes are really swollen and as I open my eyes I see a ''vein'' shape that goes away as I blink.
I have gotten an MRi of my brain done in October 2008, then another one of my brain AND neck Dec 2008, another one of brain April 2009, and one of my brain AND whole spine June 2009. EVERYTHING came back normal, except a hypersensitivity in the C5-C6 area, which may be due to a contracture. Blood tests done (regular ones) all came normal. A tomography of my eyes(optic nerve) this past month and it was normal too, also they had me do something called Visual evoked potential (had 2 done, one in Dec 2008, another one April 2009)...they were normal, and a visual field test which was also normal... so so far neurologists, ophtalmologists, neuro-ophtalmologists say that nothing is showing up!!!! It has been a year and I still feel not-good, these weird sensations sometimes bother me so much that I feel im going crazy...really... can this be a type of virus?? or may be a parasite?? I found a cat on the street and I adopted it, but I waited 3 months to take it to the vet...could it be realted to that?  All  neurologists I have seen are saying it isn't multiple sclerosis. Some tell me I should go to a psychologist!!!!!! i JUST KNOW it isnt related to that. But what can it be since everything so far came out NORMAL?????????? I am not imagining my simptoms!!!
Please help...and if someone experienced these symptoms and got diagnosed with something please let me know, I am so anxious!!!


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