Went for a run a few weeks ago and had a tingling sensation down my right side every time my right foot hit the pavement. Didn't think anything about it until it happened again when I was walking. When I looked this up on the internet (as all docs are thrilled about), I found MS. As I looked at the symptoms, I had most of them but had shaken them off to old age, menopause, and a mew med I was on.
When I saw my PCP who knows me well, he suggested an MRI. Since I have also been having a nerve pain in my neck of sorts for a while, I asked if I could see a neurologist as our hospital is not very hi-tech. He gladly referred me.
When I saw the neurologist, he almost laughed at me because of my age and the fact that I am 'not weak'. I am 47 years old and exercise almost daily when I am able. I am also very educated and had read quite a bit about MS which is why I was there to see him in the first place. However, he did order MRIs of my spine and brain which was weird since he did infer that I was crazy about the MS.
I am scheduled to have these MRIs on Wednesday. I assume I won't know anything that day and will have to go back to this neurologist that I would rather spit on. My question is this.....What questions should I ask him if it shows evidence of MS? What should I ask if it doesn't as I have seen many times on this forum that it took some time for these poor individuals to finally have answers?
Thanks for any direction you can provide.
When I saw my PCP who knows me well, he suggested an MRI. Since I have also been having a nerve pain in my neck of sorts for a while, I asked if I could see a neurologist as our hospital is not very hi-tech. He gladly referred me.
When I saw the neurologist, he almost laughed at me because of my age and the fact that I am 'not weak'. I am 47 years old and exercise almost daily when I am able. I am also very educated and had read quite a bit about MS which is why I was there to see him in the first place. However, he did order MRIs of my spine and brain which was weird since he did infer that I was crazy about the MS.
I am scheduled to have these MRIs on Wednesday. I assume I won't know anything that day and will have to go back to this neurologist that I would rather spit on. My question is this.....What questions should I ask him if it shows evidence of MS? What should I ask if it doesn't as I have seen many times on this forum that it took some time for these poor individuals to finally have answers?
Thanks for any direction you can provide.
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