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Please Help with Potential Diagnosis: Fatigue/Dizziness/Cognitive Problems
Can you help me? Any other avenues I should look at? Although their are a few brain lesions these do not appear to be new and other tests do not show MS. Could CFS cause these symtoms?
Most Disruption Symptoms
* All for ~ 10-12 months
1. Fatigue Severe overall and constant weak/malaise feeling.
2. Dizziness / Balance/ Gait /Disorientation
Constant dizziness/disorientation feeling exacerbated by movement.
Unsteady gait, side to side, with foot drag.
Clumsiness, dropping things.
3. Cognitive / Neurological / Sensory / Vision
- \Tracking with eyes difficult
- Reading: Right eye seems to jump.
- When watching a car drive in field of vision, for example, trouble tracking. Seems that eyes move past the car and then jump back or behind car (this causes a spinning/disorientation feeling).
“Zoned out/ Brain Fog / Thousand-yard stare” feeling.
Speech: Wrong words, slow word finding, trouble pronouncing words, long pauses to organize thoughts/words.
Memory: Slow memory recall.
Impaired concentration/attention/comprehension and forgetfulness.
Numb hands with tingling and twitching in arms and legs: This symptom was present for five months but no longer have this.
Other Frequent viral/bacteria infections (sinuses/ears).
New Sinitus/Rhinitus and allergy symptoms
Heart palpitations.
Numb hands with tingling and twitching in arms and legs: This symptom was present for five months but no longer have this.
Sept. 2007 near-fainting. Standing in office, sudden feeling of weakness/confusion/disorientation. I did not pass out… but do not remember the five minutes after that.
Emotional/Personality Changes: Agitation, increased auditory/visual sensory sensitivity.
Test/Evaluations Conducted
Abnormal White matter lesion occipital horn.
Romberg sway
Some abnormal cortisol readings (e.g. 3) but not consistently low.
Borderline low immunoglobulins.
One abnormal high calcium test. Repeat test normal
Hyperflexia
Neurological White matter lesion but normal CSF in Sept. 07, VEP normal. MRA normal.
Endocrine One abnormal Cortisol test (e.g. 3) but not consistently abnormal
Infectious Negative: HIV, neurosyphillus, Lyme, Epstein titer normal.
Allergy Moderate mold allergies
Auto-immune ANA factor normal
Medical History
Migraines Severe frequent migraines from infant until mid-twenties. Occasional milder migraines after.
Mono 1997: Mono with complications, requiring hospitalization for IV Prednisdone treatment.
Probable Parvo December 2005 probable Parvo in Brazil: Scaled rash across trunk of body for four days.
Travel
Brazil, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Mexico, Ireland
Most Disruption Symptoms
* All for ~ 10-12 months
1. Fatigue Severe overall and constant weak/malaise feeling.
2. Dizziness / Balance/ Gait /Disorientation
Constant dizziness/disorientation feeling exacerbated by movement.
Unsteady gait, side to side, with foot drag.
Clumsiness, dropping things.
3. Cognitive / Neurological / Sensory / Vision
- \Tracking with eyes difficult
- Reading: Right eye seems to jump.
- When watching a car drive in field of vision, for example, trouble tracking. Seems that eyes move past the car and then jump back or behind car (this causes a spinning/disorientation feeling).
“Zoned out/ Brain Fog / Thousand-yard stare” feeling.
Speech: Wrong words, slow word finding, trouble pronouncing words, long pauses to organize thoughts/words.
Memory: Slow memory recall.
Impaired concentration/attention/comprehension and forgetfulness.
Numb hands with tingling and twitching in arms and legs: This symptom was present for five months but no longer have this.
Other Frequent viral/bacteria infections (sinuses/ears).
New Sinitus/Rhinitus and allergy symptoms
Heart palpitations.
Numb hands with tingling and twitching in arms and legs: This symptom was present for five months but no longer have this.
Sept. 2007 near-fainting. Standing in office, sudden feeling of weakness/confusion/disorientation. I did not pass out… but do not remember the five minutes after that.
Emotional/Personality Changes: Agitation, increased auditory/visual sensory sensitivity.
Test/Evaluations Conducted
Abnormal White matter lesion occipital horn.
Romberg sway
Some abnormal cortisol readings (e.g. 3) but not consistently low.
Borderline low immunoglobulins.
One abnormal high calcium test. Repeat test normal
Hyperflexia
Neurological White matter lesion but normal CSF in Sept. 07, VEP normal. MRA normal.
Endocrine One abnormal Cortisol test (e.g. 3) but not consistently abnormal
Infectious Negative: HIV, neurosyphillus, Lyme, Epstein titer normal.
Allergy Moderate mold allergies
Auto-immune ANA factor normal
Medical History
Migraines Severe frequent migraines from infant until mid-twenties. Occasional milder migraines after.
Mono 1997: Mono with complications, requiring hospitalization for IV Prednisdone treatment.
Probable Parvo December 2005 probable Parvo in Brazil: Scaled rash across trunk of body for four days.
Travel
Brazil, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Mexico, Ireland
Even though you tested negative for ANA, have you considered lupus or other similar diseases (www.lupus.org)?
Just wanted to let you know that I did comment on this post in the fibro/CFS forum !
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