Hi, my name is Heather. I am 24 and just came across this website. I will explain a little about why I am here. I have been really struggling for the past year with symptoms that don't seem to have a diagnosis.
It really started getting bad when I was pregnant with my son who is now 7 months. This could all be pregnancy related and just a coinsidence that I am having some of the same symptoms now but I don't know. I was dizzy A LOT and having issues where I was just about fainting from it, they never figured out what it was and said it should be "fine" when I have him, however, nothing has changed.
Along with the dizziness I am weak, tired, I have a tremor in my hands, I have been increasingly more forgetful (to the point I have had no idea what my phone number is anymore), I have been having horrible headaches that have required me to go to the ER for treatment, and today I noticed how weak my hands are. I keep dropping things and this kind of goes along with my legs getting numb and tingly a lot lately and wanting to give out from time to time while I walk.
I went into the Dr about 5 months ago and she told me since my symptoms affect more than one system in my body that its "in my head". So I thought..hmm okay I guess and went home. A couple weeks later I was having severe arm pain in my left forearm and went to the ER because my fingers were tingly also and I was diagnosed with a blood clot.
I went back to my Dr the next day because I needed further testing to find out why I would have one. The blood test for antiphosphilipid antibody syndrome came back positive but I need one more positive test next month to confirm I have it.
When I got the information on this it said it was connected with Lupus. So I looked up Lupus, I had heard of it but never really knew much about it. I thought oh my gosh this is me. I really thought that I had found my answer so I went to a different Dr since mine didn't seem to be willing to listen to me and he had me do an ANA test which was negative so he ruled out Lupus. He then thought it was my thyroid since my TSH levels were low. I just saw the endocrinologist 3 wks ago and he was thinking I had Graves disease but my thyroid scan came back normal as well as my T3 and T4 tests. So that is ruled out now also.
I started looking around online today for hand weakness and dropping things since I found this very odd and I found MS. I remember that this had very similar symptoms to Lupus and Thryoid issues but I never even thought about it. Looking into the symptoms it seems reasonable to get it checked out. I am kind of nervous and don't know what to expect when I see the Dr.
It really started getting bad when I was pregnant with my son who is now 7 months. This could all be pregnancy related and just a coinsidence that I am having some of the same symptoms now but I don't know. I was dizzy A LOT and having issues where I was just about fainting from it, they never figured out what it was and said it should be "fine" when I have him, however, nothing has changed.
Along with the dizziness I am weak, tired, I have a tremor in my hands, I have been increasingly more forgetful (to the point I have had no idea what my phone number is anymore), I have been having horrible headaches that have required me to go to the ER for treatment, and today I noticed how weak my hands are. I keep dropping things and this kind of goes along with my legs getting numb and tingly a lot lately and wanting to give out from time to time while I walk.
I went into the Dr about 5 months ago and she told me since my symptoms affect more than one system in my body that its "in my head". So I thought..hmm okay I guess and went home. A couple weeks later I was having severe arm pain in my left forearm and went to the ER because my fingers were tingly also and I was diagnosed with a blood clot.
I went back to my Dr the next day because I needed further testing to find out why I would have one. The blood test for antiphosphilipid antibody syndrome came back positive but I need one more positive test next month to confirm I have it.
When I got the information on this it said it was connected with Lupus. So I looked up Lupus, I had heard of it but never really knew much about it. I thought oh my gosh this is me. I really thought that I had found my answer so I went to a different Dr since mine didn't seem to be willing to listen to me and he had me do an ANA test which was negative so he ruled out Lupus. He then thought it was my thyroid since my TSH levels were low. I just saw the endocrinologist 3 wks ago and he was thinking I had Graves disease but my thyroid scan came back normal as well as my T3 and T4 tests. So that is ruled out now also.
I started looking around online today for hand weakness and dropping things since I found this very odd and I found MS. I remember that this had very similar symptoms to Lupus and Thryoid issues but I never even thought about it. Looking into the symptoms it seems reasonable to get it checked out. I am kind of nervous and don't know what to expect when I see the Dr.
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