Hi All-
I'm still in limbo diagnostically, but feeling like I'm slowly being drawn towards the conclusion of MS with a big magnet. Could be wrong, but my symptoms have me thinking this is MS....anyway, a repeat brain MRI next month is scheduled and we'll see. And I had the VEP and BAER tests last week so I'm eager to hear what they do or do not show.
Meanwhile, I'm still having different episodes of numbness and tingling, but it's popping up in more widespread areas, and in new locations.
My questions:
1.Is it true to MS symptoms for tingling to move around to different locations at different moments?
2. Do temperature changes- even extremely slight- like a mildly cool breeze, or a touch of warmth, trigger the tingling/pins and needles MS'ers experience?
3. For these symptoms to be a part of MS how long do they need to be present *in the same location*?
4. What other diagnoses might include the paresthesias, especially ones that are not limited solely to peripheral locations like fingers and toes?
5. If this is MS, and I'm having all of these tingling,needly sensations would this be called an exacerbation if my other symptoms are very minor at the moment?
The numbness and tingling began only as fingers and toes for the last 2 years but now are cropping up in additional locations. This seems like it might be a clue that could possibly help me eliminate some other potential diagnosis, maybe? What do you think, does the location matter, even in the sense of eliminating other things?
My doctors have been considering other dx's like Sarcoidosis/neuroscarcoidosis and lupus. I was told by 3 docs Lupus is out- no ANA or any other markers in my blood. My symptoms surely seemed a lot like Lupus to me so I kept thinking maybe, but I really don't have ANY of the markers so IF I had that it would be one of the very rare presentations where a patient doesn't. So odds are very slim.
For instance right now my fingers are buzzing/tingling, as they were last night.
But in addition I've been getting some mild tingly stabbing sensations on my nose, cheeks and scalp. Not very painful- I'm just aware and am getting increasingly concerned because the past few weeks the needly tingly thing has been coming up a lot, and in varied locations. Tops of feet, thighs, hands, head/scalp, face, in addition to the original locations of just fingers and toes,,,, and later balls of feet began getting shocky nerve "ZAP" like sensation.
Any insight would be very much appreciated.
Thank you!
I'm still in limbo diagnostically, but feeling like I'm slowly being drawn towards the conclusion of MS with a big magnet. Could be wrong, but my symptoms have me thinking this is MS....anyway, a repeat brain MRI next month is scheduled and we'll see. And I had the VEP and BAER tests last week so I'm eager to hear what they do or do not show.
Meanwhile, I'm still having different episodes of numbness and tingling, but it's popping up in more widespread areas, and in new locations.
My questions:
1.Is it true to MS symptoms for tingling to move around to different locations at different moments?
2. Do temperature changes- even extremely slight- like a mildly cool breeze, or a touch of warmth, trigger the tingling/pins and needles MS'ers experience?
3. For these symptoms to be a part of MS how long do they need to be present *in the same location*?
4. What other diagnoses might include the paresthesias, especially ones that are not limited solely to peripheral locations like fingers and toes?
5. If this is MS, and I'm having all of these tingling,needly sensations would this be called an exacerbation if my other symptoms are very minor at the moment?
The numbness and tingling began only as fingers and toes for the last 2 years but now are cropping up in additional locations. This seems like it might be a clue that could possibly help me eliminate some other potential diagnosis, maybe? What do you think, does the location matter, even in the sense of eliminating other things?
My doctors have been considering other dx's like Sarcoidosis/neuroscarcoidosis and lupus. I was told by 3 docs Lupus is out- no ANA or any other markers in my blood. My symptoms surely seemed a lot like Lupus to me so I kept thinking maybe, but I really don't have ANY of the markers so IF I had that it would be one of the very rare presentations where a patient doesn't. So odds are very slim.
For instance right now my fingers are buzzing/tingling, as they were last night.
But in addition I've been getting some mild tingly stabbing sensations on my nose, cheeks and scalp. Not very painful- I'm just aware and am getting increasingly concerned because the past few weeks the needly tingly thing has been coming up a lot, and in varied locations. Tops of feet, thighs, hands, head/scalp, face, in addition to the original locations of just fingers and toes,,,, and later balls of feet began getting shocky nerve "ZAP" like sensation.
Any insight would be very much appreciated.
Thank you!
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