Dear Doctor,
Just wanted to put this back up top. I was hoping for some guidance.
Thank you!
This time, when the developed to my ear, it not only got hot, but I had a day with tinnitus, a day with sensitivity to sound, a day with vertigo, a day with a plugged up feeling in my estation tubes, and a day with a hung over feeling. I developed very hard chills in the mornings and had a general feeling of malise. One night I woke up in the middle of the night feeling very bad, with a feeling of electric current in the right side of my skull. I took a hot shower and felt better, but developed very bad chills agian. I also developed some muscle twitching that was over my entire body. I then developed early muscle fatigue in my quads- which is now gone. Some of these symptoms don't add up to the nerve root that had the problem.
I also had tenderness over (not in) the right IS joint, which persists today and is getting worse.
I had an MRI of the brain C spine. Brain was normal, Cspine showed DDD on C5-7 with a bone spur on C6. Lumbar MRI was ordered, and that's when we found the l5/s1 herniation.
Leg symptoms went away with physical therapy.
About a week after my leg symptoms resolved, I noticed I had a hard time pronoucing some words. This has continued, and sometimes it seems like I lisp a little, and other times that goes away and I have a hard time with words that are associated with moving the back of my tounge.
About two weeks later, I noticed food felt like it was getting stuck on the right side of my esophagas. If I drink a carbonated drink, I can feel it bubble for a moment in the top of my thoat. If I create negative pressure in my throat, I can sometimes feel the stuck food slide upwards. I fear ALS, but from what I understand, it does not affect your esphogus.
Tension in the right side of my neck still persists and has spread to the right trapius. Weakness has been noticed on the right side of the back allowing my scapla to wing out, and it fatigues early if exercised.
I have a sporadic mild cramping of my right forearm and right calf. Right thumb muscle is easily fatigued.
I have tenderness in my right thumb joint, as well as my right achilles tendon. My achilles has bothered me in the past from the wrong shoes during training, but not just on one side.
The right side of my face will get cramped if I read over 30 minutes to my children, and the right side of my tounge feels cramped after as well.
I have weakness in the right side of my upper lip, it will not "draw up" like the other side as well.
I now have a little hemoragic splintering in my LEFT hand (one under nail, two in the end of the digits) that just developed.
Nuerologist noted I had "the smoothest tounge he had ever seen"
At this point, I assume my right disk herniation was caused by my weakened erector spineas muscle- I'm assuming it's weak because of the cramps and sorness that I am getting there.
Still having muscle twitches all over my body, even in tounge from time to time.
Last night while watching a movie- where the screen was where I needed to look to the side, my right eye muscles seemed achy.
For a while, my right hand felt colder than the left, but that has not happened for a couple weeks.
Test done so far: ANA, Lyme titer, thyroid, sed rate, Vit B12 and folate,ENT has had a look at my throat (modified barium swallow study to follow)- all normal.
Anyone have any ideas? I'm 37, and extremely fit.
Thanks!