Dear new forum members. let me introduce myself.
I am 23 year old male from Croatia. I've been fearing for about 3 and a half years now that I have MS. All doctors I've been to told me I don't have it, I learned to live with it and go on, but I just got a new symptom and got scarred again.
Let me tell how this all happened.
In 2009 I started having these weird sensations while walking. I'd walk then I'd feel that I am walking on something that is slighty going up and down, like A rubber that is bending as I am stepping on it. It would last for a few seconds then dissapeared. This would happen every few weeks. This symptom lasted several months, then dissapeared totally, then reappeared in 2010 in more intense way, then dissapeared totally and never came back.
Another symptom, I think it developed in early 2010, I'd wake up with numb fingers, usually pinky and ring finger, sometims only pinky finger, and sometimes the whole hand. This symptom lasts till now, and It is almost everyday. I belive this has a lot to do with how I sleep. When I sleep sideways its sure to happen, when I Lay on my stomach I think I avoid it.
Then, in july 2010, I got punched into the stomach, in area of solar plexus. Prior to that I was not exercising for 6 months, because I believed I had cervicobrachial syndrome. I am an exercise addict, and i competed 2 years in kickboxing before these symptoms took place. After that punch my abs would shake when I would contract it.
7 days later I went to start exercising again because I was tired of my shape. After the workout I felt very lightheaded and tired. I went to sleep and that night woke up in terrible fear after a nightmare, all in sweat with skin itching, like some ants were walking on random spots. Since that day I have random fasciculations all over my body every day, but they are far less intense then they were then. The "skin itching" is almost non existent, maybe it happens once a week on a tiny spot, and lasts just a few seconds. I also got another smyptom that is breathing. Every now and then I just feel the need to take a deeper breath which I cant fight off. This symptom also is less intense then it was back then.
Also another symtpom that got me scarred is trembling of fingers, more in left hand while doing fine moment, in right hand is almost unrecognized. Also If I squat down to paralel against a wall, i feel my legs slightly vibrating, whcih didn't happen before the punch, and it is worse if i do not exercise legs for a few weeks. When I started exercising them again, the symptom is almost gone
After googling on my symptoms I started to get really scarred. In late 2010 I started seeing eye floaters, black lines that would move across my vision field when I would move my eyes across bright backgrounds. IN 2011 and 2012 they were lesser and non existant, but in 2013 they got back, a little bit more intense. I connected this with swimming in the pool. They first happened after swimming in pool and they reappeared after getting back into the pool this year.
Somewhere in october This year I noticed palinopsia. I see trails of moving object, like my hand leavig a trail when i weave it infront of my face. It is more intense when in peripheral vision then in direct vision. Which got me googling it and leading to MS back again.
During these years, I was going to hospitals a lot, did several scans, and all doctors told me I do not have MS, and they told me I do not have ALS.
I did brain MRI in august 2013. Came back totally ok, neurologist told me my brain is good like that one in a baby, and that I should have no injuries to id (I competed in boxing 2 years from beggining 2008 to end of 2009) and I did that MRI because of headpain after a friendly recreational sparring in august, this year.
I did a lot of EEGS, last one came back with "in the limits of noral" diagnosis.
To summarize my current symptoms:
-fasciculations, mostly in my calves, when resting, can happen everywhere on the body, may be increased while under influence of alcohol, never happened on my tongue. Learned to live with it, doesn't bother me that much.
- Palinopsia, just recently developed, I see trails of moving objects
- Eye floaters
- I wake up with numb hands, or fingers.
- slight muscle shaking/trembling during contractions, quite noticable in fingers of left hand, such as supporting a weight of a cellphone on 2 fingers, my fingers would twitch a bit. This doesn't happen on the fingers of right hand. Also, legs would vibrate when I'd squat down or something like that If I am not in shape (not exercising for weeks).
- the urge to take a deeper breath every now and then, these days almost non existant.
All doctors told me I do not have MS, that I am ok, that I have BFS, etc. I still keep reading on internet about MS, I still keep fearing that I have, please talk to me, please help me, I don know where to go.
I WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO RULE OUT MS IF I DON'T HAVE IT, ONCE AND FOR ALL. I PRAY TO GOD I DON'T HAVE IT.
Please help me, talk to me, what to do, what can I do, how likely it is that I have it, what's going on with me. I am tired of this, it's brining me down heavily.
Sorry if I have irritated you with my post, I am just too weak to deal with all of this.
Thank you all for support.
I am 23 year old male from Croatia. I've been fearing for about 3 and a half years now that I have MS. All doctors I've been to told me I don't have it, I learned to live with it and go on, but I just got a new symptom and got scarred again.
Let me tell how this all happened.
In 2009 I started having these weird sensations while walking. I'd walk then I'd feel that I am walking on something that is slighty going up and down, like A rubber that is bending as I am stepping on it. It would last for a few seconds then dissapeared. This would happen every few weeks. This symptom lasted several months, then dissapeared totally, then reappeared in 2010 in more intense way, then dissapeared totally and never came back.
Another symptom, I think it developed in early 2010, I'd wake up with numb fingers, usually pinky and ring finger, sometims only pinky finger, and sometimes the whole hand. This symptom lasts till now, and It is almost everyday. I belive this has a lot to do with how I sleep. When I sleep sideways its sure to happen, when I Lay on my stomach I think I avoid it.
Then, in july 2010, I got punched into the stomach, in area of solar plexus. Prior to that I was not exercising for 6 months, because I believed I had cervicobrachial syndrome. I am an exercise addict, and i competed 2 years in kickboxing before these symptoms took place. After that punch my abs would shake when I would contract it.
7 days later I went to start exercising again because I was tired of my shape. After the workout I felt very lightheaded and tired. I went to sleep and that night woke up in terrible fear after a nightmare, all in sweat with skin itching, like some ants were walking on random spots. Since that day I have random fasciculations all over my body every day, but they are far less intense then they were then. The "skin itching" is almost non existent, maybe it happens once a week on a tiny spot, and lasts just a few seconds. I also got another smyptom that is breathing. Every now and then I just feel the need to take a deeper breath which I cant fight off. This symptom also is less intense then it was back then.
Also another symtpom that got me scarred is trembling of fingers, more in left hand while doing fine moment, in right hand is almost unrecognized. Also If I squat down to paralel against a wall, i feel my legs slightly vibrating, whcih didn't happen before the punch, and it is worse if i do not exercise legs for a few weeks. When I started exercising them again, the symptom is almost gone
After googling on my symptoms I started to get really scarred. In late 2010 I started seeing eye floaters, black lines that would move across my vision field when I would move my eyes across bright backgrounds. IN 2011 and 2012 they were lesser and non existant, but in 2013 they got back, a little bit more intense. I connected this with swimming in the pool. They first happened after swimming in pool and they reappeared after getting back into the pool this year.
Somewhere in october This year I noticed palinopsia. I see trails of moving object, like my hand leavig a trail when i weave it infront of my face. It is more intense when in peripheral vision then in direct vision. Which got me googling it and leading to MS back again.
During these years, I was going to hospitals a lot, did several scans, and all doctors told me I do not have MS, and they told me I do not have ALS.
I did brain MRI in august 2013. Came back totally ok, neurologist told me my brain is good like that one in a baby, and that I should have no injuries to id (I competed in boxing 2 years from beggining 2008 to end of 2009) and I did that MRI because of headpain after a friendly recreational sparring in august, this year.
I did a lot of EEGS, last one came back with "in the limits of noral" diagnosis.
To summarize my current symptoms:
-fasciculations, mostly in my calves, when resting, can happen everywhere on the body, may be increased while under influence of alcohol, never happened on my tongue. Learned to live with it, doesn't bother me that much.
- Palinopsia, just recently developed, I see trails of moving objects
- Eye floaters
- I wake up with numb hands, or fingers.
- slight muscle shaking/trembling during contractions, quite noticable in fingers of left hand, such as supporting a weight of a cellphone on 2 fingers, my fingers would twitch a bit. This doesn't happen on the fingers of right hand. Also, legs would vibrate when I'd squat down or something like that If I am not in shape (not exercising for weeks).
- the urge to take a deeper breath every now and then, these days almost non existant.
All doctors told me I do not have MS, that I am ok, that I have BFS, etc. I still keep reading on internet about MS, I still keep fearing that I have, please talk to me, please help me, I don know where to go.
I WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO RULE OUT MS IF I DON'T HAVE IT, ONCE AND FOR ALL. I PRAY TO GOD I DON'T HAVE IT.
Please help me, talk to me, what to do, what can I do, how likely it is that I have it, what's going on with me. I am tired of this, it's brining me down heavily.
Sorry if I have irritated you with my post, I am just too weak to deal with all of this.
Thank you all for support.
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