Well, I had my neuro apppointment today. It all felt a bit rushed to be honest. He took a medical history & then examined me. He checked my reflexes which were ok, my eyes were ok too. He asked me to stand up & close my eyes & I wobbled, but he said this was fine. I did the test where you slide the heal of one foot down the other leg, again this was fine.He never got me to walk any distance, or do a heal toe walk ( which I cant do by the way).
He is sending me for an MRI to check if there anything wrong with my CNS.
He said that I may never got a diagnosis, in which case they would just treat my symptoms. This made me feel rubbish to be honest, as if he thought there was nothing wrong with me.
Can you have the above normal examination & still have neurological problems?? I know I’m not imagining it all.
He can’t have thought you were imagining it, or he wouldn’t have referred you for a scan. They wouldn’t do one just for the sake of it, as they’re not cheap.
I didn’t have very much wrong with me on clinical examination, as my symptoms had long passed their height by the time I saw a specialist. The only abnormal thing I know he came up with was I’d lost vibration sense in my ankles.
I had reduced sensation in my lower extremities too, but that wasn’t verifiable on examination, as somehow I could still feel what he was doing. It just felt weird, and not as it should - as if he was doing it through a towel or something! So I had to tell him exactly that: “Yep, I can feel it, but it feels like there’s a towel in the way!” LoL.
Despite a not very dramatic physical exam, I still had a spinal cord lesion and half-a-dozen brain lesions show up on MRI, so no, I hadn’t been imagining things.
In the event you don’t get diagnosed, treating symptoms is still better than nothing. In fact, getting help is probably more important than slapping a name on it. Naming it won’t make you feel better.
Hi Tina, thats exactly what it was like for me too. I could feel what he was doing, but it didnt feel right. I said it felt like there was something covering my feet when he was touching them. I also found it hard to ditinguish between the ‘buzzing’ from the tuning fork & the buzzing that I can actually feel all the time.
You are right that getting help is more imprtant than anything else. I just felt really rushed & didnt feel that he was really that interested in my symptoms. I just didnt ‘click’ with him.
Hi Tina, thats exactly what it was like for me too. I could feel what he was doing, but it didnt feel right. I said it felt like there was something covering my feet when he was touching them. I also found it hard to ditinguish between the ‘buzzing’ from the tuning fork & the buzzing that I can actually feel all the time.
You are right that getting help is more imprtant than anything else. I just felt really rushed & didnt feel that he was really that interested in my symptoms. I just didnt ‘click’ with him.
My first neuro examination was private - and very, very, thorough. Just about all the tests in the book. He came up with a Dx of Transverse Myelitis.
Eight months later, in an NHS environment, I was examined by one of his trainees. Much quicker, only did half the tests, and came up with exactly the same diagnosis.
I guess that if Test C covers the ground that Tests A and B do, and you are working under some pressure, why bother with a A and B at all.
Think of it like this: if you want to cross the road, do you look and see if there is a car coming, or do you look to see if it is safe to cross? Think this through, and see that the second choice covers the first one.