Do i have M S? i am a 43 yr old woman, who has been going backwards and forwards to docs from age of 23yrs with the same complaints and three months ago demanded my doctor stopped dismissing me and send me to see a neurologist!!! who i am seeing in six days time…
It started with undiscript ankle pain which came and went. over the years this pain has spread to my knees and hips lower back elbows and wrists . had test after test but has always come back fine, or a little bit of inflamation. I now have permenant leg pain which is becoming increasingly debilitating. I have also suffered from terrible headaches and neck aches since i can remember. My memory and cognitave ability comes and goes i can see people are talking to me coz there lips are moving but all i seem to hear is white noise and they have to repeat things over and over again. For about three to four years i have suffered horrendus night sweats and mood swings, so much so i had my ovaries removed (doctor said it was probably hormonal) this didnt work. For about four years i have had absolutely no sex life. For past year my arms go numb this is at its worst during the night , and sometimes i feel as though my insides are shaking. quite often my hands shake (I look as if ive got the d t’s from drinking-but i dont drink). i have been on and off antidepressants for past twenty years and my sex life, mood swings, memory problems have always been put down to this. lately i have developed serveral facial ticks, have started loosing my balance, and my body feels like its ‘body popping’, and i am getting pins and needles in my upper lip. I know i am rambling, but my doctor has told me that i have had loads of tests and they all show nothing is wrong, so he wanted me to see a shrink, as he is suggesting its all in my head. I asked him if he thought i was mad and he repilied 'well i will ask you that question-do you think your mad. he also said that if i was suffering from all of these symptoms for all these years i should be dead. i really feel as if ive been dismissed by my doctor for years (20 to be precise) Or do i sound mad?