Advice once more please

[Tongo]

Hi guys, i posted my symptoms 3 weeks ago, a few people here said it sounds like Anxiety! And thats what my doctor said!
But i am still getting left hand side dizzy/fog feeling, my neck and shoulder left side is so sore to move, and left arm and hand feels like it has had a work out! I did have a miss hap at work 9 weeks ago, (lifting a box up high, the weight of the box fell behind me, and pulled my out stretched arm backwards and felt like ir ripped my shoulder/neck in half. Next 3 nights had to sleep on my stomach becauce of pain) my wife said its all cauced by this! But why dizzy/fog head weird finger sensations! We are on vacation as well now, so should be no anxiety! My search of ms
My symptoms started after my left leg stopped working for 3 hours, hospital said i was intoxicated, sent me for mri lower spine, bloods, neuro test, ct brain. All came back normal!
What do you guys think!???
Please.
My dr keeps saying stop googling, symptoms!
Thanks

[hunterd]

"My dr keeps saying stop googling, symptoms!"
I cannot agree with your doctor more!
It could be the strain caused by that box. Anything involving the spinal column is AN EXTREMELY TRICKY thing. I would have to say that nobody knows your body, and the way it reacts to certain circumstances better than you.
Just remember to be open to advice from your doctor. Sometimes they see things completely different than we do and they do not have a vested interest ( as far as it affecting them).
I wish you the very best of luck and hope for a quick understanding of what is to blame.

[JerryD]

Tongo,
Listen to your doctors' advice! You need to get your body repaired. Then, you must pay some serious attention to your anxiety symptoms. You may benefit from yoga, meditation, accupuncture/accupressure,tyr etc. Who knows what else ? I try to avoid any possible anxiety ridden situations by consuming a large glass of whiskey or wine, daily. It seems to work for me! Good luck

[mjan]

Well, maybe your doctor and responders here are right. However, I am one not to blame things on anxiety when no one knows the answer to symptoms.

You may have strained a muscle/pinched a nerve. You don't see that on MRIs etc necessarily.
I always go to my Orthopedic doc first to rule things in or out. They are very aware I have MS.
A pinched nerve can do weird things and cause a lot of pain.

Again, you won't know unless you seek out a Orthopedic doc.
Bring along your MRI results.

Good luck and let us (me) know how you are doing.

Warmly, Jan

[Tongo]

Well, maybe your doctor and responders here are right. However, I am one not to blame things on anxiety when no one knows the answer to symptoms.

You may have strained a muscle/pinched a nerve. You don't see that on MRIs etc necessarily.
I always go to my Orthopedic doc first to rule things in or out. They are very aware I have MS.
A pinched nerve can do weird things and cause a lot of pain.

Again, you won't know unless you seek out a Orthopedic doc.
Bring along your MRI results.

Good luck and let us (me) know how you are doing.

Warmly, Jan

Cheers i will look into the pinched neck nerve! Mornings are soo good but by 9am. It starts, head and neck then shoulder then arm! Arm feels like the next day after hitting your elbow hard, kind of thing! But when my ears start popping and dry mouth i know it must be anxiety! But why? Never had it b4! Driving my wife crazy. How many more doctors hospitals u going too see she says!
Thanks for your time
And all the best

[jreagan70]

Hi Tongo:

It's important to point out that, in you first post, you didn't say anything about having incurred an injury six weeks before. That's an entirely different scenario.

You said that you fell while you were intoxicated. And, from your description, it sounds like your medical workup was based on that. And the testing that was done came back normal.

You have talked about shoulder pain, but did you tell any of the three doctors you saw about your shoulder injury and ask to have that checked out? You never mentioned a workup for it, so that implies that you 1) didn't have it checked at the time, and 2) never told the doctors about it even though you had several chances to.

So the logical next step is to see your primary care doctor and start to have that worked up specifically, with referral to other specialists as indicated. The results might explain some of your symptoms.

It would have made a significant difference if you had mentioned the injury in your first post. It's important because the kind of medical care you get depends on your ability to speak up for yourself and how reliable a historian you are in delivering factual information to your doctors.

The possible effects from your injury aside, everything else in your first post points directly to anxiety. And actually, this revelation about an injury also points to anxiety.

Specifically, you knew you sustained an injury, but then you ignored that completely and decided on your own -- based only on nonspecific google results -- that your symptoms indicate, of everything you could have googled, MS. And when you were told that that your exam results are normal, you went to two other doctors to check out -- not the injury that you never mentioned -- but MS that you imagined on your own. That points to anxiety.

You said that, the more you googled, the worse your symptoms got. That points to anxiety.

In your reply in the other thread, you expressed some surprise that I would say you were experiencing anxiety when you'd never had it before, when it was you yourself that opened your post by asking if your symptoms might be due to anxiety. That points to anxiety.

Your doctors told you to stop googling symptoms, but you ignored that and compulsively kept googling symptoms anyway. And you're back here again asking about MS when your neurology exam was normal and there's no indication that you have it. That points to anxiety.

Anxiety doesn't mean that you aren't experiencing symptoms of some kind. But there's a huge difference between knowing your own body and seeking care based on those instincts, and not following logic but instead imagining things and being irrationally reactive to something you read or imagined.

Right now, everything you have said points to the latter. And it's hurting you more than your shoulder injury.

So please:

1. Go back to your doctor and get your neck and shoulder examined (push for an MRI if it isn't offered), and
2. Get yourself into therapy for anxiety with a mental health professional, because your anxiety is hurting you more than anything else, and everyone you know, and everyone here, wants you to be healthy and happy.