Ms?

[allsherote]

12 years ago fall I had panic attacks and thought then I had something neurological going on. I had all the signs of a normal panic attack in addition to muscle twitching all over my body and jelly legs and arms on and off. In Dec of same year I got ON in my left eye, had normal MRI with contrast so they said it was ideopathic. In 94 had very bad cold with ear problems and lost my balance for 9 days. The said it was an ear infection and it went away. In 95 had ON in my right eye and another had another normal MRI with contrast. Was told that my chances wen way down that this was MS at that time. Skip forward to 2004 with not one symptom and a ton of stress, marriage, birth of child, parents divorcing, buying two homes, a lot major sleeping problems out of my child. Have been fine through the past 9 years. I had some other health problems that were unrelated and spent one week straight convinced I had kidney disease or cancer. I went into full blown panic attacks for that whole week. Once found out was fine could not stop them. They kept coming on worse and worse until I had to resulf to Xanax again just to work. Well, all of the muscle twitching has returned as well as the jelly legs, dizziness. These symptoms are the same as the attacks from 12 years ago yet because of the ON I can't shake the fact that I might have MS. Even when I don't have a full blown one, I have the muscle twitches and feel so exhausted all over from these attacks and I am perceiving that as weakness, hence,MS. Do my chances go down really with two normal MRI's or is anything of this related at all?

[CCF-Neuro-M.D.-CS]

The intermittent attacks you are describing do not sound like MS attacks. Regarding your risk of having MS, if the MRI's of your brain are completely normal then a diagnosis of MS is unlikely. If you are still concerned about this possibility then seeing a MS specialist may be reasonable. Also, if these are panick attacks, it may be reasonable to see a psychiatrist to receive proper treatment. Good luck.

[starwood]

Hi, I am so worried at the moment, about a yr ago it started I woke up with tinnitus, a year on I have had to leave my job, i have given up smoking and I cant drink, but I still feel yuk!
The drs think maybe CFS, but noone knows.
I have had an MRI about a yr ago, and even then I expressed my concern about MS and the DR assured me my mri was completley normal!
But for the last few months I am exhausted all the time, and the heat is the worst, If I get overheated I am sick for days if not weeks, If I do exerecie even mild, my legs hurt from the knees down, like the tndons behind my knees are too tight.
I also get these weird things, Its like i am just sitting there and all of a sudden I get hit in the head, (it doesnt hurt) but it scares me and at the same time I get these electric shock feelings in my arms and legs.
I dont know what to do, the Drs have put me in the "Too hard basket" would anyone have any idea what this could be? please help me!

[kwag]

Please look on www.mercola.com and look up fibromyalgia and CFS.  There are many ways to elp alleviate your symptoms but it takes a whole lifestyle to do it.  I have had what you describe and it is your body's way of telling you something is going on.  Just like a car has symptoms aan that tells you something.  First of all, calm down and realize that symptoms are a normal part of being human.  I think we have been taught to fear symptoms like a fever or other.  That should not be so.  You were created with the ability to heal but to do that your body has to be equipped.  Research what is healthy to eat and do it.  Please research this on a reputable site like Mercola.  Give your body what it is needing and take away what is hindering healing.  Taking medicine should always be a LAST resort.  It can never work like your own immune system.  Don't give up.  God bless   kw

[jan]

Hi,

The MS worry, isn't it wonderful?  NOT!

I had started with some problems 5 yrs ago and they just in the past 2+ yrs got worse.  Some of my symptoms diag matched MS symptoms and I was told by several drs. that MS was suspect.  My new neuro, back in June, gave me the diag of Possible MS.

I had had an MRI back in '98 that showed a lesion, so all those drs since that time were just waiting for one more lesion.

My new primary thought I should be on med, because he felt MS was a correct diag and he sent me to a very reputable univ. hosp.  I find out that 1 lesion is in actuality 3 lesions, buuuut since I had them on my 1st MRI in '98 and haven't had any changes on MRI since then...not MS.  He even said my symptoms weren't of MS!  Well, I will argue that they very well could've fit under MS and obviously the other drs felt they did, too.  I found them on different MS sites, too.  

Well, I will just hope this guy is correct and try to move on. At least I am being treated symptomatically.

It was hard to waiting to see if I would get another lesion, so I know somewhat the anxiety you are experiencing.  Hearing "MS" is unsettling, too, but finding out more about it really helps.  I am giving you a link to a real nice MS Forum, they are very supportive and love sharing what info they have.

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/FriendsWithMS/messages

Here is another to a good site all about MS:

http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/

I hope this is of some help to you.  Wishing you the best.

Hugs

[kwag]

In the past, I have lost a lot of sleep to worry.  I can tell you right now that most of the things that I worried about never happened and the couple of times that they did, my worry never changed anything.  In time, with the help of God's word, the Bible, I began to cast all my cares on Him.  I read the Bible through, especially the New Testament and I prayed that the truth of God's word be truth for me also.  I put index cards throughout my house with scripture on them that gave me hope.  When anxiety crept up on me, I quoted these scriptures and the anxiety left me.  When I feel the symptoms that you are describing, I pray that Gods word be done and I ask God to cast the symptoms into the sea.  All things are possible for God.  I suggest everyone read the Bible and apply it to our lives.  It is living and true.