confussed....

[mae1]

I have been having terrible pain for a couple of weeks now, it wax and wanes. the one   that has been constant is the pain in the back of my ankles... My feet feel so rigid in the morning I can barely bend them....
the other pain that seems to come and go I refer to as bone pain.It feels like i have a bad tooth ache in the bone of my upper arm and thigh. my neuro did a mri last Friday and it showed every thing was stable. still about 15 lesions, non of them enhanced.
what I am confused about is although I am very thrilled to have a stable mri report I don't understand why my symptoms are so flared up right now and why the new one in my ankles....
thanks for your time.
april

[mae1]

thank you all so much for your responses......
the stiffness I have been feeling in my ankles, and yes quix, it is were you described it.
well the stiffness seems to have spread all the way up threw my thighs to my hips.
my neuro ordered me zanaflex thinking I am having spacticity.
I guess I was just confussed because the mri said stable and I have felt worse these last couple of week than I have in the last year.
thanks again for responding
hugs
april

[Quixotic1]

Hi, I, too am sad that you are having so much pain.  The pain you describe does sound possibly neurological.  Is there pain and stiffness in your Achilles tendon?  It's the long hard cord behind the ankle.

The "bone pain" is something we have heard a lot about here.  It can be a type of neurologic pain.

We often try to draw a direct correlation between the lesions seen on MRI and our symptoms and it just can't be done.  You can have a full relapse and not have a change on the MRI.  Some neurologists don't accept this, but they are ones that believe that all lesions have to be visible.

Please read the Health Page called "Lesions vs Symptoms."  It explains a lot about what confuses you about the new MRI.

Quix

[humming4u]

hi, sorry your in such pain,if the doctor dosn't have an answer right off the bat he should order testing to see if anything else is going on,and then at the least,and the meantime, couldn't he give you something to help with the pain? I hope so
                                                                 humming4u

[wishforchange]

Hi April,

Don't know you history but assume you have been diagnosed with ms?

Given the nature of the pain and that it is worse in the morning it may be arthritic pain, or even vascular.  Sometimes having one diagnosis makes us and our doctors not consider other things that might be going on.

Any swelling?  Coldness to the touch in the feet?

Maybe worth having an ESR blood test to check for rheumatic type activity, or even look at the possibility of vascular disease.  Or of course it could be a flare of your existing condition, others here may have more suggestions.

Pain in the back of the ankles could be tendonitis, inflammation of the achilles tendons.

I'm not sure in this case an MRI is the best way forward.  Maybe get a second opinion or go back to your doctor asking what else it can be?

Not too focused right now for a number of reasons so apologies if haven't read your post correctly.

wish

[mae1]

any comments at all would be greatly appreciated.
thanks guys.
april