Undiadnosed for 2 months. Help!!

[rowjer]

2 months ago I started feeling numbness and pain in my left arm and chest. This had been happening for a few days in a row. I noticed it came on shortley after drinking coffee so I stopped. A day later at work Was sitting down and all of a sudden my vision started to dissapear from the outsides inward like tuinnel vision in both eyes. At the same time my head felt like it was on fire like a hot flash. When my vision came back it was blurry and hazy and I now have several floaters in each eye. My coworker took me to the ER. On the way my left hand turned a dark red/blue color and my fingers started to cramp. When I got to the ER I could barely talk I was so scared. For a few weeks I have these symptoms. Bad pain for two weeks in the back of my head torward the base of my scull. My left side of face goes numb everyday, pain in the top of left hand, muscle cramps in bicepts. Tingling/numbness in nose, hands feel week, my heart races from normal 75 bpm to 115 bpm just by doing simple tasks like walking five feet to the bathroom, hip pain, eyes feel dry and stiff and hurt just by trying to open them in the morning, headaches everyday the list goes on and on. I had a brain mri, echocardiogram, corotid duplex, stress w/cardiolites, thyroid bloodwork, comprehensive metabolic panel, nerve conduction test, lyme test, event monitor that I am currently wearing. All test have com back normal except the event monitor where the cardio doc sees the spikes in hb. My primary doc has no idea whats wrong and the nuero on can say complicated migraine. I have been on amitryptiline for over a month with no help. Optho says he cant find any damage to eyes but states he sees all the floaters. Two ER docs stated possible ms, the cardio doc said maybe lupus or collagen vascular disease. This is ruining my life. Please help!!!!

[mddie]

You really have been through it!  I suffer from chronic migraines and I get stiff eye, numbness down the whole side of my body, lots of floaters and generally a surreal feeling.  It's very possible it could be as simple as migraines, cause this is what can happen, but if your not use to it, it is terrifying, I was convinced I had a brain tumour, until the MRI proved otherwise.  with all the tests you've had, it is pretty safe to conclude it must be that.  Migraines are very much related to epilepsy so the symptoms are similar.  It can go on for hours, days or even weeks.  I reckon you are in a state of anxiety now so your heart will race at the slightest exertion through the worry of it all.  good luck and try to relax if possible!  

Oh, MS can be picked up in an eye test, so if that was ok, there is less of a chance it is that!

[rowjer]

Thanks for responding. The thing that scares me the most right now is the weak feeling I have in the muscle or area around the heart. It is hard to explain the feeling, It feels like my heart sac is inflamed.

[mddie]

again that could be explained as anxiety over what you are going through... anxiety causes you to breathe more quickly, which makes you chest ache, well it does for me.  Put your faith in what the docs have told you and try to relax.  A good measure I use is are the problems there if after you have had a few alcoholic drinks?  If I have a drink and I relax 9 times out of ten the current problem disapates, now that wouldn't happen if it was a physical problem, it would still be there


just a thought!

[abducted]

Ask your doctor about sarcoidosis.