My father is 75 and has Rheumatoid Arth., past hx of MI at age 53 in which only one vessel was involved and an angioplasty performed and has had no problems since. He has had 4 back sugeries with the last being a 360 with infusion of the 3-5th vert., and 1 neck surgery also involving an infusion. He also has a hx of severe migranes which ceased at age 45. Over the past few years he has developed moderate to severe trembling of his hands, memory problems, numbness and tingling of all extremities and c/o loss of feeling in his feet. he began having seizure like activity in which he has constant spasms of all extremities which are very painful but does not loose consciousness or have difficulty breathing. However when the episodes are over he is very weak, looses partial bladder control for a short period of time, and then is very sore and fatigued for up to 48 hrs. He had an MRI in 11/09 which concluded he had a (1) mass along the pianum sphenoidale, most compatible with a menigioma. (2) Chronic infarct with cyctic encephalomalacia, lft occipital lobe, with ex vacuo dilatation of the lft occip. horn and porencephalic cyst formation. (3) Cortical and central atrophy, (4) Partially empty sella, and (5) Microangiopathic gliosis. All he was told by a neurologist was "it probably wouldn't have any affect on him in his lifetime" (I am not sure the neurologist knew of the seizure like activites). His Rheumatologist claims it is due to the Rheumatoid Arthritis.
My father is a very private person and although I am a retired R.N., he does not share many of his symptoms with me. I just learned of the sez. like activity( for lack of a better description ). I need help quickly and am clueless how to help him. I have severe fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis. Is this my fate?