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Numbness, burning, itching and tingling. I'm very scared

I am a 21 year old girl and I have not yet seen a neurologist or had an mri but am on the waiting list to do so. I have had burning, tingling and numbness moving around various places on my body for a few weeks now. I've also had pain above my eyes, normally just in left, but sometimes both and slightly 'cloudy' vision (though my optician says its perfect) I am suffering with aches and pains in my limbs, mainly at night and odd twitches and spasms in my legs and feet (though this isn't all the time) I am really very scared that I have ms and all this waiting and not knowing is the worst part. I'm not able to concentrate on all my work cause i'm so worried. Can anyone give me some reasurrance or just ideas on how to take my mind off all of this untill I know for sure? Thanks.
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hii im 16 years old and over the last week or soo i have been expierencing tingles, itching, that crawling feeling, odd numbness in random areas e.g a small part of my arm or leg and spurts of a weird pain almost like a tiny electric shock allover my body mostly on my back and head.  sounds daft but it also feels as if my bones are cracking :S its very hard to explain.
i dont really have time to go to a doctor with all the college and work and a few personal problems soo im quite worrid.

any ideas?

tarr X
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Hi,

I am a 28 year old male that has been having around the same feelings that everyone has been discribing.  It all started a little over a year ago, with a bloody nose on my wedding night.  Then it went to me feeling light headed and numb with a cold sweat thoughout my body.  That went away for a few days then I came down with this pressure in the top part of my head that slowly worked its way down to the front of my forhead.  A lot of off balance feelings, like I was on a boat or rocking back and forth.  So I went to the hospital and had a cat scan done.  They found nothing.  I went to my dr. and told him I thought it was a tumor or something bad.  He said not to worry and that if I continued to have these feelings that he would send me to have a MRI done.  Which in turn I had done, they found nothing.  I was sent to see a Neourolgist and he looked over my MRI and said no tumors or signs of stroke nor Clots or anything like that.  So he sent me to have this test done called an MRV, which is almost the same as an MRI.  THat also came back negative for nothing.  ALl my symtoms had seemed to disappear around this time also, but within the last month or so I've started getting this pressure again in the top part of my head that moves down into my forehead and behind my eyes.  Almost like a burning feeling sometimes, or like I've got a sharp ***** in the cornor of my eye.  Almost like my brain is bleeding.  Sometimes I have feelings in my head like I have little bubbles moving and popping in my head.  Also sometimes I feel like someone has stuck their fingers in my brain and split my brain into two pieces.  I'm scared of what it is cause no doctor can pin point anything except stress or tension headaches.  Gave me medication that does not help.  Can you always have tenision like that that lasts for days and goes away for weeks at a time?  I've had no loss of vision or fainting or anything of that sort.  Please help!
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hello!i am from pakistan and i m having numbness since one week and it is in my left hand s last two fingers and i m so much worried,why it is happening?i gave CBC test but it is fine,still the situation persists.i have posted my this priblem but got no answer?i am in pain that what are the reasons and wat is it?
kindly guide me i am 26 years ,unmarried,and having no drugs.
nigi
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Hey heather

How did the scan go? I suffer from anxiety too, so maybe thats where some of my symptoms are coming from too?! Cause im still suffering the burning i keep wondering whether i should have gone for an mri. The neurologist said he didnt think it was necessary but i cant help but wonder if i should have gone just for my piece of mind *sigh*
I just wanna be all normal again, know what i mean?!
Hannah
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Hi,
I am having similar problems as abitscared and it has been going on for about 3 months.

It all started with been feeling tired than itchiness on my back and chest. almost like burning sensation. it then develop into numness about 5 weeks later one day I realised right side of my face got paralised. same day I was diagnosed with Bell's Palsy.. I was lucky my face almost gone back to normal after a week also in the mean time itcheness was all gone until last week.

The burning feel is back again this time all over on my face, had, eyes and different parts of my body.

after bell's palsy I had an MRI scan and blood tests... MRI scan came all fine. the neurologist said I must have had a bad virus in my body and it is travelling and causing this all.
But my GB can't seem to understand my blood test results one day he is saying it is all fine than he is saying not easy to understand... I am soo fed up with not knowing what is wrong with me.... why is it that difficult to understand the blood tests.

This itching and burning feeling is bringing me down big time
I recently got my dream job but not knowing what is going on with me and these horrible symptoms are effecting my work as well.

Anyone out there had a smilar experience and had a diagnose please let me know... I am freaking out.

thanks
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Hey Hun,
Im so glad !!!! to here you don't have anything serious sweety..yayyy!! I guess you feel relieved ..ey!!?!
My MRI is on the 17th,, but i've been doing alote of reasearch..and i think that the sensations im feeling + the abnormal CT could be linked to OCD (anxiety disorder)
I've suffered from this anxiety disorder all my life and i researched that the sensations im experiencing can be cause by anxiety, also that people with OCD have significantly less white matter on the left side of there brain.. I really hope that it is caused by the OCD, so that i can just work on it, and get better. I'll let ya' know!!
take care hun
Heather
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