confused or crazy

[cherby]

Wow!!! you have alot of knowledge. ok so here it goes. my falling down has been going on for about 3 years now. im clumsy and stumble and it is getting worse. i fall more often now. the numbness and tingling is in my hands and up my arms. which began in the summer. as far as memory loss i go place's not knowing how i got there or how long i was there and what i did while i was there. that happened 2 times in the summer. i find my short term memory most affected. like i ended up in the hospital for pnuemonia and did not know how i got there and staed 10 days back in october. things like what i did a few days ag i cannot remember. my speech has changed in the fact that i find myself struggling to find  a word when speaking like going um um. In november the left side of my body began shaking uncontroably and did not stop for about 48 hrs. During that time my daughter got married and cannot remember the wedding... some bits and pieces. i experience pain in my lower back and generally all over at times. like in my hand going up to my shoulder.
Also i get up to urinate at night time when sleeping more then during the day along with sudden urges.
Please forgive me i know im skipping around.
Also during the summer family and friends would ask if i had been drinking because i was acting "loopy" and my gait was off. It was during tht period when i took a trip to MI and dont remember how I got there like i stated above.
I experience dizziness alot even when im laying down if i turn my head to the other side its so dizzy i feel like im gonna faint. My neuro doc sent me to have an exam from a heart doc and i did not remember ever going to the appt and to this day can not tell you where his office is but he sent the reports to my neuro. I am also very depressed and find my self having severe mood swings at times gettin real irate over nothing really. I am also tired all the time... even if i've gotten 10 hrs of sleep.
Im going to give you verbatim what the MRI stated (i have a copy).
IMPRESSION: NUMEROUS NONSPECEFIC FOCI OF HIGH T2 SIGNAL WITHIN THE WHITE MATTER OF BOTH CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES. THE VENTRICLES AND CORTICAL SULCI ARE OF NUMEROUS NONSPECIFIC FOCI OF HIGH T2 SIGNAL IN THE SUBCORTICAL AND DEEP WHITE MATTER OF OF BOTH CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES. OTHER WISE THE GRAY AND WHITE MATTER DEMONSTRATE NORMAL SIGNAL. THERE ARE NO AREAS OF RESTRICTED DIFFUSION TO INDICATE ACUTE ISCHMIA.
Im sorry this is so long but as you must know I am going crazy not knowing. doc is going to do a spinal after the sleep study. i believe he did all the blood work already.
like i stated before i asked can we rule out MS and he said no he just does not know and is very puzzled.
Oh and the back pain starts in lower back and travels down to my feet and is real in tense pain but a different kind of pain almost burning.
Well there you have it. I would truly appreciate any info you could share with me with this new info.
thankyou so much for the warm welcome and insight you have provided me with.
I feel he is being evasive with me which auses so much stress and i believe that brings on attacks. the aer and ver test came back normal. i dont know why he has me doing a sleep study. i feel like im going crazy and im so depressed that sometimes i cannot even get out of bed. oh he is also got me going for a mri of my back.
any insight would be most appreciated!

[Abhijeet Deshmukh, MD]

Hello.

I am sorry for the problems you are facing. This is indeed a tough situation for you.

I think you doctor wants to rule out any demyelination in the spinal cord. The MRI repost suggests a demyelination in the brain. (I am not sure, but I think you have pasted the first sentence of the report again after "THE VENTRICLES AND CORTICAL SULCI ARE OF.....")

Your doctor is just being 100 percent sure before he gives any diagnosis.

All the best.

[cherby]

thanks for your insight. do you feel this is MS??? any ideas???