Paresthesias, Body Twitches - MS?

[jsoh]

I am a 25 year old female.  No major health problems.  Here are my symptoms:

6 weeks ago began experiencing mild numbness/tingling/achy feeling in right arm/hands/fingers.  This was precitated by some hand pain after using a knife to cut a hard object.  One week after that began experiencing same symptoms in left arm.  The symptoms were not constant but frequent.  A week after the left arm, I had mild numbness/tingling in my left ankle.  The next day, my entire left leg felt asleep.   This last about one day.  For the next four weeks, I experienced this mild numbness and tingling in both feet, ankles, lower leg, arms, hands, fingers, upper back, face, head, and neck.  The symptoms usually lasted from an hour to several hours.  But for four weeks I usually had some symptom in some part of my body.  Then the symptoms started to fade off.  Since that time, I also developed some body twitches/jerks in most parts of my body that happened throughout the day. This lasted a week and kind of faded off.  Now I seem to just have numbness/tingling in my fingers or feet that may last an hour every once in a while.  Sometimes my arms/fingers feel achy.  In addition, sometimes after using my hands/fingers for heavy use they tend to feel wierd and sometimes I have a tremor in my hands.  I had a brain MRI that came back clear (I was experiencing the numbness/tingling in both feet at the time.)  I am very concerned that I have MS.  What else could it be?  I have an appt. with a neurologist soon, but I am very worried.  Does this sound like MS or anything else

[getinold]

I'm glad to find the board, about 2 weeks ago I had what I assumed to be a migraine, about 16 hours before my headache I started to get numbness in my finger tips and my vision was broken at times it took several days for my HA and brain fog to leave but the numbness in my hands remained for several more. I thought it was all over but now I am having a pins and needles feeling in my hands and feet and occasionally to other parts of my body. Any Ideas?????

[nrs]

I am so surprised to have found this site.  I have been searching the internet for the past few weeks due to some strange symptoms I'm experiencing.  
Mine began with a migraine and then a couple days afterwards I experienced a "tingling and pressure" on the top of my head on the right side.  I then noticed numbness on the right side of my face.  These feelings have continued for a few weeks and a head MRI came back normal.  In the last week I have been experiencing a tingling feeling in my feet - especially when walking on them and some slight twitches in my legs and arms.  I am also experiencing pain and tingling in my right arm, hand, and leg.  The fact that most of these are on my right side scared me.

Just a side note, I had vein sclerosing surgery (injections) done just before all of these problems began - could there be a connection?

Thank you for any help!

[bowii]

IN JANUARY I STARTED TO BECOME WOBBLY IN MY WALKING. ACTUALLY, I FELT LIKE I WAS ON A MOVING BOAT.I THOUGHT I HAD AN INNER EAR INFECTION BUT NO IT WAS RULED OUT. MY DOCTOR SENT ME TO A NEUROLOGIST AND THROUGH AN MRI SHE FOUND I HAD TWO SPOTS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF MY BRAIN. PERHAPS MS.
SINCE THAT TIME I HAVE STARTED TO HAVE MINI SEIZURES WHICH START WITH TINGLING IN MY LEGS UNCOORDINATION AND AN AURA AS IF I GOING TO GO DOWN.
THE NEROLOGIST DOSENT WANT TO GIVE ME A SPINAL TAP AS YET AS THIS MIGHT BE THE EARLY STAGES AND MY SPINAL FLUID MIGHT BE CLEAR.
I HATE THE WOBBLINESS AND THOUGHT OF A MINI SEIZURE AT WORK OR ELSEWHERE.
HAS ANYONE ELSE HAD ANY OF MY SYMPTOMS?

[tlsullivan]

Dear shellopher,

Like yourself, the first thing I was thinking was MS. While the symptoms caused by MS are extremely varied and differ from person to person, it appears that from what I read, that one of the common threads to the overall symptoms was loss of muscle strength in the legs/arms.  Of course, the common symptoms don

[Jazz101]

Boy oh boy do you sound like me!  I thought I had MS too - had all the symptoms.  Doc sent me for an MRI - came back normal.  Because I have been a migraine sufferer since I was 14, they diagnosed complicated migraines (migraine symptoms with no headache) and fibromalagia.  My symptoms were regular, especially the foot and hand tingling and numbness, but have now subsided for the past 3 months.  Not sure why but I'm liking it so far.  I would suggest seeing your physician and asking for a referral to a rheumatologist to see about fibromalagia.  Good luck!

[rascal]

To all tht posted after me, I should have explained, the vestibchochlear nerve is in the middle ear, thus n/v dizziness, etc, would occur. (I have a friend with a form of this called Hunt/Ramsey syndrome)
To the person that "finds it hard to believe stress can cause all of this", have you ever noticed that your symptoms bc less if you find yourself anxious over something else going on in your life or around you? I only asked this bc I started having something occuring in my life that took my focus off of a chronic condition I have in my shoulder muscles (I am in PT for). Anyway, amazingly enough, I noticed the pain that was always constant in my shoulder left during this time,was gone, and that was  almost a month! My anxiety actually makes the shoulder worse (I'm not saying it's not there at all, it's just worse when I worry) So, try to find something more worrisome to worry about! ha like the Middle East conflict, hey, come to think of it, that should heal just about all of us here!! :) :)
Anyway, Yes, stress can worsen those conditions......
me :)