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Could I have MS?

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bobsthong
bobsthong

Basically I've been one of those people to get tired easily ever since I was young, but recently I've been experiencing dizziness and tingling at the back of my head and numb feelings and creeping feelings (alongside regular headaches). I went to the doc and was sent for a blood test which came back Vitamin D deficient. I took the first tablet and my symptoms have not gotten better. I searched up causes for head parasthesia and it suggested multiple sclerosis. 

I realised that recently I have been more clumsy than ever, when looking through the symptoms but I had previously overlooked it. Also sometimes the inside of my arm will become tender but I overlooked that too. I have been getting diarrhoea but I searched that up online and I concluded I probably had IBS. I keep getting muscle twitches in my back, my eye and other parts of my body if that could be related and I have been getting social anxiety and other forms of anxiety and depressive feelings, which I have never gotten anxiety before (although I have depression). I'm not really sure about my concentration and attention span though, and I haven't got any weird eye sensations (except the other day I saw a light in the corner of my eye) but people say that could have just been the light or a migraine aura. I went online and searched up do I have MS for the sake of discovering symptoms and a quiz came up which suggested if you get pain in your spine when you look down it could be MS causing the pain, and I tried and realised it did cause a serious shooting ache.

Do you think I have MS or just a lot of other problems put together?

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  • bobsthong
    bobsthong

    Posted

    Also today my jaw has been tender and my eye feels swollen
  • PaineFury
    PaineFury bobsthong

    Posted

    Bob, I have MS myself and these sound a lot like typical MS symptoms. Worthwhile talking to a neurologist or doctor, explain ALL of your symptoms and how long its affected you and ask for an MRI and a Lumbar Puncture. If they can find lesions and Oligoclonal bands or proteins in your spinal fluid there's a strong possibility you might have MS.
  • adrian31504
    adrian31504 bobsthong

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    Hi, my MS started with tingling in my left hand. followed by numbness in my legs, I went to the doctor who did all types of tests on me, but had no idea what is was?? So I too, looked on the internet and typed in my problems and it came up with a few potential illness.  One of which was MS. On the next trip to my doctor I suggested to him it may be MS.  Straight away something clicked and he booked me in to a private neuroligist to look into the matter futher, He then booked me in for a MRI test. The results of which confirmed I had secondary progressive MS. i suggest that if you think you have MS then speak to your doctor and see what he suggests.  Good luck.

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