Weird symptoms

[chirpybirdy]

Hi, I am a 46 year old female and lately I have been experiencing weird symptoms. I feel like my right foot is numb on the top by the ankel. I have also had some numbness in my hands (very mild, just slight tingling sensation). I also feel like I am all jacked up on caffeine and shakey. Sometimes the numbness radiates up my leg and feels like a calve cramp and sometimes my right leg feels like a noodle. I can't really explain it. Just weird. At other times I go days without any symptoms thinking everything is gone just to have the symptoms come back.

My doctor had a MRI done of my head and it was negative. She is going to do a EMG on my foot to see if I have any neurophay (sp) on the foot. The weird thing is the numbness started about 7 days after I started a drug called Metromonazole (flagyl) for an Urinary Infection. My foot went numb and tingly so I googled the drug to find out a rare symptom could be neuropathy of limbs and to stop the drug immediately if you have any numbness of the extremities. So i stopped the drug and called my doctor. She thought it was not the drug as this is a very rare side effect. But I sware it all started then.

Of course now I have the numbness in the foot and am wondering if I am causing the other symptoms because I am anxious about it being MS. I know that just because your MRI is clear doesn't mean it isn't MS. So now I am very worried.

Any opinions would help me. Does this sound like it could be MS or do you think maybe anxiety. Can MS come and go like my symptoms do? Does MS ever feel like you are hyper or jacked up on caffeine? Has anyone else ever known anyone with this rare side effect from the Flagyl antibiotic? If it is neuropathy of the nerve will it get worse or better?

[chirpybirdy]

Hi, I do have a test scheduled coming up in two weeks where my neurologist is going to test the nerve in my foot. She said she puts some pins and electric shocks the nerve to see if there is damage. Then she said we will go from there forward depending on her findings.

I did stop the Flagyl a few days after I realized that it might be causing the numbness and the felling got better but never completely went away. I think maybe I was on it long enough to cause permanent damage to the foot nerve. Or it is completely something else and just a coicidence that it happend at the same time I was on the Flagyl.

I did have my Thryoid checked a while back because I had Graves Disease when I was a little girl (over 30 years ago). It has been in remission for that many years but I was worried it was coming back. But all thryoid tests checked out normal. But because Graves is an autoimmune disease it scares me because MS is also an autoimmune disease and I hear you are more likely to get MS if you had another autoimmune disease in your past.

Today my foot feels completely normal and isn't numb at all. Isn't that weird. But then it will come back without any warning or anything that I can think i am doing to cause it to be numb. My hands are feeling normal too...no numbness in them at all for many days. Eye is still twitching mildly but mostly gone.

I wish I could stop thinking about the symptoms and forget about them. Maybe i am obsessing about them causing the whole problem? I just don't know anymore.

[Sparkysarah]

Hi and welcome to the forum and thank you for sharing what you are going through. It sounds as if you have many unanswereed questions and this can be such a worry. I know nothing about the medication you are on but I would definitely be discussing this further with your doctor. Have you any other tests scheduled?

Wishing you well,

Sarah :)

[twitchychick]

Do you take any other medications?  I am allergic to sulfa drugs and others like levaquin.  It made my limbs very weak, where I could not even put weight on them.  Had to rush to urgent care and do a nasty course of steroids.  So limb numbness, tingling, weakness could be from medication side effects.  But also could be something else.

Another thing you might want to check out is your thyroid.  Hyperactive thyroid can cause the jitters, shaking, tremor type feeling.  

Try not to worry too much as there are so many other things it could be.  If it is the meds, the fix could be as simple as discontinuing it.

I really hope you find out some answers soon.  I wish I could offer more but I am not as educated about ms as the other members on this forum.  But they can really help you find answers. God bless them!

Take care.
TC

[chirpybirdy]

I would rather it be damage to my nerve due to the Flagyl than MS. I have been worrying a lot lately about it being MS. I also have had a twitching under my right eye that started this weekend. It seems better today but that scared me too. My foot feels better today but that happens. I can go one or two days with no numbness at all and I start to think that it was all in my head, maybe i  should cancel my appointment to have the EMG on my foot. And then it starts up again for a day or two, sometimes just for an hour or two. On, off, on, off. It always subsides at night when I lay down and feels normal when I wake just to start up again after standing for about 10 minutes.

[MCBCON]

Sounds like your concern about the drug might be worth looking into:


http://www.drugs.com/sfx/metronidazole-side-effects.html

Seek medical attention right away if any of these SEVERE side effects occur when using Metronidazole:
Severe allergic reactions (rash; hives; itching; difficulty breathing; tightness in the chest; swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue; fever; flushing; stuffy nose; very dry mouth or vagina); bloody stools; decreased coordination; increased or decreased urination; numbness, tingling, or burning of the arms, hands, legs, or feet; red, swollen, blistered, or peeling skin; seizures; severe diarrhea; severe or persistent dizziness or headache; sore throat, chills, or fever; speech problems; stiff neck; stomach pain or cramps; vaginal itching, odor, or discharge; vision loss or other vision changes; white patches in the mouth.