Possible balance issue?

[lovemy6monkeys]

I was talking to my DH yesterday about my next doctors appointment. The doctor wants DH with me, not only because we would be going over MRI results, but he said DH would probably have different observations about how I am doing.

So, I asked DH if there is anything he sees in me that I'm not seeing as a symptom. He said the only thing he sees is sometimes when I walk I "go out of my way". I knew what he was talking about. Just a few nights ago I got up off the couch, walked across the room to his chair, and instead of walking straight at him, my last few steps kind of drifted to the right. He noticed and right away asked if I was ok.

I never even thought much of it! Stuff like that happens, I would estimate, 4-5 times a week. Maybe more if I'm having a very tired/run down day. Sometimes it is like I'm about to stumble on something, or trip over my feet. Sometimes it is more like the other night, and my last few steps just go off course.

I'm not falling or feeling dizzy, so I just never thought much about it! I never even said anything to my doctor. I have been thinking I haven't had any balance problems, besides when I had the vertigo a few weeks back.

Is this considered a balance issue? Or am I just clumsy?
~Jess (who will someday stop asking so many questions LOL)

[sickofsick62]

hi ya,
for over 20 years i've struggled with balance problems, they get worse such as walking off line and into a door jam etc., specially when im about to get a spell or im tired and need to rest and havent yet.  im only 48. i was diagnose with essential tremor at o.s.u my the neurology chief of medicine there in the early 80's and had follow ups. now i have ms. amongst several other major problems. im having a ramp built outside my house and getting a Jazzy power chair because im too weak and i fall too much when im without my Aid and my loving companion. Ya know, the brain is a wonderous thing,,so try not to be afraid and get yourself in a panic. because the way i see it is,,now i know what to pray for and I know that I'm never alone. God is always with me.
please write back i find all my ms friends here on this site such a support and comfort dont you? God bless! Ill be praying for you.!!

[Phoenix177]

I'm not dx'd with MS, but I do have the same balance problems. I seem to lean to the right when I walk or lean to give my bf a kiss. I've been dealing with vertigo (among other sx) for a little more then a year now (mainly when overheated, or when that weird draining fatigue hits in mid afternoon).

I thought I might of had ON in my right eye last spring. The eye doctor I went to thought something was wrong with my optic nerve,  He said  my eyes are very healthy. he listened to me about all my sx's. he was very concerned about about my heat intolerance and my right eye vision dim and didn't agree (with left eye) what shade of red. I wish the next eye doctor I was referred to would of listened to me. he was only interested in eye sx only, then dx me with eye migraine. I still say bs to that dx.

don't worry about asking so many questions, I usually don't ask since I find it here

[alixjo]

I think I do something similar, if I am out walking with someone and they are to my right hand side it wont be long before I am bumping into them, I often have bruises on my right arm where I have misjudged where the door is when I am walking out of a room and catch my arm on the door handle.

I thought it was with having had ON in my right eye last April but realised I had been doing the bumping into things or people a lot longer than that just more often these days.

Alixjo