Hi Everyone.
I posted this in the 'introduce yourself' area yesterday and it was suggested I check out this area too... so here I am.
My name is Lisa and I live in a tiny little town in south Arkansas. I’m currently seeing a neurologist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.
I’ve officially been in limbo-land a little over a year, but can track back the beginning of everything to around 2005. I had woke up one morning with my right side numb and felt awful for a few weeks so I went to my doctor who ordered a nerve conduction study. When it came back negative, the numbness had gone away and I was feeling better again, so I pretty much forgot about it and ignored any new symptoms that came up until July 2010 when everything went downhill.
It’s taken every bit of the past year to find a decent neurologist, but I’ve now been through the full array of testing (except for evoked potentials). I had an MRI with and without contrast in December of last year (multiple small FLAIR hyperintense foci involving bilateral periventricular white matter), EMG last month (negative), Swallow Study last month (delayed swallow response), LP last week (identical banding in fluid & serum, so negative for O-bands) and more blood work then I can even remember, all of which were pretty much normal.
Right now I am waiting for my follow-up appointment with the neurologist, which isn’t until Sept. 27th, to find out what these recent test mean and where we are going from here.
If you’ve made it this far in reading, thank you. I tend to be a little long winded sometimes.
I look forward to getting to know everyone here.
(((hugs))))
Lisa
I posted this in the 'introduce yourself' area yesterday and it was suggested I check out this area too... so here I am.
My name is Lisa and I live in a tiny little town in south Arkansas. I’m currently seeing a neurologist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.
I’ve officially been in limbo-land a little over a year, but can track back the beginning of everything to around 2005. I had woke up one morning with my right side numb and felt awful for a few weeks so I went to my doctor who ordered a nerve conduction study. When it came back negative, the numbness had gone away and I was feeling better again, so I pretty much forgot about it and ignored any new symptoms that came up until July 2010 when everything went downhill.
It’s taken every bit of the past year to find a decent neurologist, but I’ve now been through the full array of testing (except for evoked potentials). I had an MRI with and without contrast in December of last year (multiple small FLAIR hyperintense foci involving bilateral periventricular white matter), EMG last month (negative), Swallow Study last month (delayed swallow response), LP last week (identical banding in fluid & serum, so negative for O-bands) and more blood work then I can even remember, all of which were pretty much normal.
Right now I am waiting for my follow-up appointment with the neurologist, which isn’t until Sept. 27th, to find out what these recent test mean and where we are going from here.
If you’ve made it this far in reading, thank you. I tend to be a little long winded sometimes.
I look forward to getting to know everyone here.
(((hugs))))
Lisa
Wow... two rounds of limbo-land must be pure torture! Some days (most days) I don't get the logic these doctors use!!
and the Beast
of Depression.
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