My name is Robert Nicula, I am from Romania and this is my fiorst post on this website.
The story is kinda complicated so I will try to be as clear as possible.
Around 5 years ago I have started to develop numbness in my right leg and had MRI's of all my spine which showed a herniated disc at T10-T11 vertebrae. Being a sportsman that meant I couldn't go on with my professional career. All good.
Around 2 years past and I start to develop numbness in my right arm. So now I have constant chronic numbness on the right of my body. In 2018 I end up at my neurologist and I have an MRI of my brain at 1.5 T. Brain comes normal, no lesions, no atrophy, no nothing. After that I have 3 MRI's (cervical, thoracic and lumbar) at 1.5T. No lessions just small protrusions and incipient hernias al over my spine.
I have my objective neurological examination. All comes normal. No Babinsky sign, no other sign of MS besides numbness. Neurologists say I cannot have MS.
After I learn that I might have MS numbness in my left leg and arm develop. So now I have general paresthesia. I go on by myself and have a 3T brain MRI done at another neurologist in another city. Same as 1.5T. Brain is normal. I have another objective neurological exam. Normal. THis second neurologist says I do not have MS and I should be grateful for this.
He also says I should have some blood tests done to rule out other infectious diseases. Everything comes back normal.
Than I contacted via email another neurologist whom I know and sent him my MRI's and other paperwork on myself. He said I don't have MS but my spine might be the culprit. The problem is my local neurologist says those hernias are too small to give me such symptoms so the back cannot be the culprit.
So i have 3 neurologists who say: (all 3) definitely not MS; (1 out of 3) the hernias are the problem (1 out of 3) cannot be the back (1 out of 3) might be the back.
Also I have gone to an ophthalmologist to test if I have optic neuritis. I wear glasses cause I have myopic astigmatism in my right eye and I see super blurry with that eye. She said no optic neuritis and also my MRI's didn't show any optic nerve damage.
This is an important question for you. I have a felling my vision in that eye has worsen. I have to wear my glasses more often. Can this be a mild form of optic neuritis that it's not that evident even for the patient himself?
Also can my astigmatism glasses, once I wear them, improve my vision if I have optic neuritis? I ask this because when I wear them I see clearer with that eye.
I might have left something out but that's the big picture. In case I remember something I will write it down in later posts.
Thank you for the support my friends!
** Moderator's note - Post broken into paragraphs for easier reading. Many people with MS have visual difficulties that prevent them from reading large blocks of print. **
The story is kinda complicated so I will try to be as clear as possible.
Around 5 years ago I have started to develop numbness in my right leg and had MRI's of all my spine which showed a herniated disc at T10-T11 vertebrae. Being a sportsman that meant I couldn't go on with my professional career. All good.
Around 2 years past and I start to develop numbness in my right arm. So now I have constant chronic numbness on the right of my body. In 2018 I end up at my neurologist and I have an MRI of my brain at 1.5 T. Brain comes normal, no lesions, no atrophy, no nothing. After that I have 3 MRI's (cervical, thoracic and lumbar) at 1.5T. No lessions just small protrusions and incipient hernias al over my spine.
I have my objective neurological examination. All comes normal. No Babinsky sign, no other sign of MS besides numbness. Neurologists say I cannot have MS.
After I learn that I might have MS numbness in my left leg and arm develop. So now I have general paresthesia. I go on by myself and have a 3T brain MRI done at another neurologist in another city. Same as 1.5T. Brain is normal. I have another objective neurological exam. Normal. THis second neurologist says I do not have MS and I should be grateful for this.
He also says I should have some blood tests done to rule out other infectious diseases. Everything comes back normal.
Than I contacted via email another neurologist whom I know and sent him my MRI's and other paperwork on myself. He said I don't have MS but my spine might be the culprit. The problem is my local neurologist says those hernias are too small to give me such symptoms so the back cannot be the culprit.
So i have 3 neurologists who say: (all 3) definitely not MS; (1 out of 3) the hernias are the problem (1 out of 3) cannot be the back (1 out of 3) might be the back.
Also I have gone to an ophthalmologist to test if I have optic neuritis. I wear glasses cause I have myopic astigmatism in my right eye and I see super blurry with that eye. She said no optic neuritis and also my MRI's didn't show any optic nerve damage.
This is an important question for you. I have a felling my vision in that eye has worsen. I have to wear my glasses more often. Can this be a mild form of optic neuritis that it's not that evident even for the patient himself?
Also can my astigmatism glasses, once I wear them, improve my vision if I have optic neuritis? I ask this because when I wear them I see clearer with that eye.
I might have left something out but that's the big picture. In case I remember something I will write it down in later posts.
Thank you for the support my friends!
** Moderator's note - Post broken into paragraphs for easier reading. Many people with MS have visual difficulties that prevent them from reading large blocks of print. **
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