i had neck pain at first and then back pain. numbness on my hands and feet started too.. right now the neck and back pain is gone but numbess on my hands and feets are still there. went to the hospital and they do not know what causes it and wanted me to go for MRI which is wayyyy too expensive. some chinese doctor says it is due to the viral infection. anyone know what causes this??? pls help
I have had a similar onset. I had burning and tingling in my feet, then ankles , then calves, forearms etc. bilaterally. I also went to Cleveland, but the Case University neuromuscular center and had biopsies, taps, etc. It has been 6 months since onset and has progressively worsened, It is sensory but it is so bad it interferes with walking. NO diagnosis yet. I am going to start IV IG in two weeks
I honestly don't know what to do
Hi there, i agree completely that these things take such a long time to recover from. I had a virus in 1999 - they think it was encephalitis -. Took 2 years to recover and probably 3 or 4 for the symptoms to go completely. IN the past month I've had a flare up after a virus. So it's quite normal for you to be feeling ill after this amount of time. It takes a real long time for these things to clear up. Good luck, Fiona
A very similar thing happened to me back in the early 90's. I had fevers, elevated liver enzymes, vomiting, diarrhea, numbness, tingling ,rashes, partial paralysis of a leg, carpal tunnel and much, much more. I was tested for hepatitis and epstein barr. They were negative. About 8 months prior to this I had 3 bullseye rashes, followed by all sorts of weird symptoms like joint and eye pain that never resolved. The doctors said "non-specific" virus. Anyway, I finally put 2 and 2 together after my brother mentioned lyme disease. My rashes looked exactly like the pictures. I saw a specialist on lyme and took a few months of antibiotics and I started to recover. It took about 5 years to recover. It all hit again in 2005. I'm not saying that you, or I for that matter have lyme. I just wanted to say it took many years to recover from whatever it was. I was about 30% recovered after a year.