Update on my symptoms....MRI tomorrow :-(

New diagnosis and before diagnosis
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Hi all,

I posted on the forum a few weeks ago. Reminder of my symptoms:

  • started with tremor in hands

  • internal tremor

  • muscle twitches -like my muscles tap under my ribs and in my arms for 10-20 seconds

  • pins and needles - in arms and face

  • weakness in arms & legs. Last 2 weeks I have feeling i my left knee like someone’s rubbed Vicks all over it- feels cold and tingly- this is there throughout the day

  • dizziness - severe for 6 weeks -improving over last 2 weeks

  • heart palpitations and funny episodes where spine tingles, feel weak, need to wee and feel a whoosh going up and down my spine.

  • when I’m focussing on things close up- feels like my eyes focus on my nose instead (wierd i know)

My blood test results showed a vit D deficiency. I am now on high dose (10,000 iu) tablets.

I have seen a neurologist & he said a lot of my symptoms are anxiety related. Some symptoms are there all the time (like the dizziness) and some come and go- like the pins and needles.

I have an MRI tomorrow. Really scared.

Does anyone think anxiety can cause all the above symptoms?! I am thinking it can’t be the case as it’s 8 weeks since all this started now…and I am getting new symptoms.

I am having a real low day today :frowning:

Thanks,

Anon25

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Hi,

Because everyone’s MS is different its very hard to say if your symptoms could be Anxiety or something else. The fact that you are in that don’t know what it is stage you will obviously have high anxiety just now but go for your MRI and try not to worry about it (I know easier said than done right). The MRI can be a little scary but once you get passed the noise of the machine it is really not that bad and the nurses are great and really help you relax. All I can say is try and keep your chin up and I really hope you get to the bottom of your symptoms very soon. Feel free to PM me if you fancy a chat away from here

Claire xx

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Good luck. Xx

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Hi,

I have wondered this myself and I am seeing the neurologist for the first time on Wednesday.

I think the hard thing is, with anyone undiagnosed, and even diagnosed come to think of it - is where the ‘MS’ symptoms end and anxiety symptoms end. Symptoms make you anxious, anxiety makes you symptomatic and so on.

I guess for you the good thing is that your neurologist is not dismissing you and saying it’s anxiety and sending you on your way. So even if the MRI comes back clear and the Neuro says it’s anxiety, you won’t have those lingering worries of never having been properly checked out and you can look at managing your symptoms.

My other half got a lot of these symptoms (and palpitations - which i’m not sure is a symptom of MS?) and he’s managed his anxiety and doesn’t suffer anymore.

That’s the way I look at it anyway :slight_smile:

Good luck,

Emma x

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Good luck!

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Thank you to all - really appreciate your comments

I am very teary today,not sure why. I was hoping and praying I was just having a nervous breakdown but as things are getting worse and not going away I am getting more and more scared. I know MS is not a death sentence but I am nomally such a busy, active and healthy person, I am finding being ‘ill’ difficult to cope with.

Hope things become clearer soon.

Thanks again xx