I’m really worried and would love some advice and reassurance please, although I really do have the gut feeling that I have ms and am worrying myself senseless! I gave birth 3 months ago and originally put my symptoms down to pnd and anxiety, but things just don’t feel right.
I’m 39 and have already been diagnosed with hashimotos and vitiligo, my immune system loves me! Anyway for a while i have been suffering from terrible vision problems,I’ve googled it its called palinopsia and is driving me nuts I have to wear glasses all the time as the sunlight is blinding, after images and flashing lights when I blink, alongside horrible headaches and occasional migraines. My memory is rubbish and my partner will often say babe you told me this yesterday!
Last year I was hospitalised for a massive panic attack and have suffered from anxiety ever since but have tried to control it by taking magnesium,vit b complex etc it was the strangest and most horrifying experience ever, i also had a tremor in my right hand but put it doen to too much drinking…it was like my brain was detached from reality and ever since have occasions where I think I am going insane and want to escape from looking through my eyes, its really hard to explain, a horrible feeling but another day rolls around.
Last week I had sensitive pain in my left eye and cheek that I put down to an inflamed eyelash or wisdom tooth, I’ve also had numbness in smaller toes and tingling in little fingers and for years a tingling patch on my back.
I am very jerky and get butterflies all the time,when I try to relax I feel shuddery if that makes sense,I am very aware that anxiety symptoms can mimic ms and have been putting this all down to the anxiety until i googled the other day and the vision problems came up as early onset ms and along with my pre existing auto immune diseases am thinking that perhaps the mental symptoms especially are being caused by this.
I’m off to see the doc next week, coincidentally when I gave birth to my twins 6 years ago I was convinced I had bi polar and did some research, I insisted on thyroid tests and ana, turns out my anti bodies were 1400 when normal range is 300 and was diagnosed with auto immune thyroid disease so was wondering if mental health issues could be an indicator of ms in the early days?
I’m hoping its just anxiety as I have 5 beautiful children to care for
Thanks for listening to me rant