I知 here for my wife who is 30. We live in NW KS. Nearest high end medical services would be Denver at 3.5 hours away, Wichita at 4.5 hours away and Kansas City at maybe 6 hours away.
We had our 4th child this summer and about 5 or 6 weeks later she started experiencing numbness and tingling in her face, leg and arm quite abruptly. The only symptom prior to that had been tingling or numbness in the top of her ear for about 3 weeks. All of the other symptoms came on over the course of a few hours. They have persisted since then but have varied in intensity. The symptoms have not ever been as bad as that first day and some days have been nearly non-existent but most days are quite present and some days are almost as bad as the first day.
The abruptness of it, combined with a brain and spine MRI (only a 1.5T machine) that seems mostly clear makes us wonder if it痴 not MS but we致e ruled out lots of other things with our family Dr. and due to the symptoms feel we can稚 rule MS out.
We are currently scheduled to see Dr. Vollmer at Rocky Mountain MS Services so hopefully we値l learn more there. We hope that he will help us rule MS out but we wonder if maybe he値l want us to get a better MRI (3T) or a spinal tap or both.
Basically for now I知 just saying hi although I will probably have more questions soon.
We had our 4th child this summer and about 5 or 6 weeks later she started experiencing numbness and tingling in her face, leg and arm quite abruptly. The only symptom prior to that had been tingling or numbness in the top of her ear for about 3 weeks. All of the other symptoms came on over the course of a few hours. They have persisted since then but have varied in intensity. The symptoms have not ever been as bad as that first day and some days have been nearly non-existent but most days are quite present and some days are almost as bad as the first day.
The abruptness of it, combined with a brain and spine MRI (only a 1.5T machine) that seems mostly clear makes us wonder if it痴 not MS but we致e ruled out lots of other things with our family Dr. and due to the symptoms feel we can稚 rule MS out.
We are currently scheduled to see Dr. Vollmer at Rocky Mountain MS Services so hopefully we値l learn more there. We hope that he will help us rule MS out but we wonder if maybe he値l want us to get a better MRI (3T) or a spinal tap or both.
Basically for now I知 just saying hi although I will probably have more questions soon.
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