Please to answer! Is it MS hug or Peri symptom? Tight around ribs and pain?
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Is it Peri or MS hug? tightness with pain around ribs,? anyone with same symptom?? thanks in advance !!
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sara97862 nina20271
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Hi Nina,
I am so sorry you are suffering with this right now!!!
I suffer with this too from time to time... it is so so bad.
I don't feel like it's MS when it's happening to me... I feel like it's a migraine, but instead of my head hurting, my ribs hurt and squeeze. I get all the other migraine symptoms at the same time... wavy lights in my vision, stomach issues, sensitive to light and sound and smell.
Do you have any other symptoms at same time?
nina20271 sara97862
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Hi Sara, thank you answering me, I had bad head pressures and was very off of balance same time I had slurred speech during those episodes,but they are gone now, actually since I removed Mirena iud that is gone, but I have terrible headaches during period for 2-3 days.. I still have my periods. I have now this band like squeezing feeling around ribcage and it hurts in muscles and its burning and my upper back hurts as well. I was scared if I do have MS may be, but also I have all the peri symptoms , started with heavy clots and bleeding, around 2014-2015 and that time I got my Mirena, but never stopped bleeding , it got less but did not stop. then I had wave like menthol thing through body, left side buttock /vaginal/rectal sapsm very very bad one with horrible pain. that is gone as well but my left leg is weak sometimes after that spasm it radiates in left leg down. my left side is kind of more light to compare with right side , right side is some kind of tense or crumped or muscle tone is more somehow, cant describe really. So , sometimes when ny ribcage crumps or whatever it does))) I cant breathe , it feels like my diaphragm is pulling down .. weird things going on all over my body. Also my cheek was kind of pulling/twitching that time all started also left side. I was soo tired , I was bot able to function. scariest was my balance and head pressure , I was walking more left side kind of. Ah.... yes , sounds crazy .loI am scared, because I am thinking sometimes its like MS flare .. I dont know what to think . Hope its Peri and not MS, ... sorry you are straggling too. ❤❤
nina20271
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Oh, I forgot about my eyes , I see some white flushes at the corner of my eyes and I have double vision now when reading. My concern is that my left side is somehow strange to compare with right , but I have seen ALS and MS specialists and they said no MS or ALS,, hope it is just "Lady Peri" 😃)
edith99275 sara97862
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hi,
I am 51 and having so many symptoms like ringing in my ears all day do you have that.
serena11274 nina20271
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I too had the feeling like I was walking sideways along with the head pressure, I felt heavy from the waist down, also had twitching in face as well as all over body, at night I had internal type vibrations through legs, hope this helps , I too thought I had ms
nina20271 serena11274
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Thanks a lot Serena❤ , sorry you have this too, but at least we know it will pass , I was so scared about all this no answers from any Doctor , I was ready for any diagnose just to know what is happening . this is terrible 😦 how are you now?
serena11274 nina20271
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alot better now but I too was so frustrated, doct could not tell me what was wrong, im pretty good now apart from occasional heart rate going up, I still get regular period but very light, 2 days and its gone, mine started dec 2018 but I suspect my female parts were winding down maybe few years before, I went through 2 years or more of hell, had to stop working as physically could not do it, my mental health took a battering but I refused antidepressants as been on them before and took me awhile to come off, hence side effects, I just kept swimming as they say and pray that it was peri as never want that back, can honestly say never felt so bad in my entire life but hoping the worst has passed.
nina20271
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oh, Im glad you feeling better❤ My hell started Oct 2018 ... seen mln Docs since:( now I am A bit better but those 2 years destroyed me , my kids , my husband all suffered because of me , not knowing what was wrong and I was 100% sure I was dying of something undiagnosed... they all have been so scared, I stopped seeing friends, talking to them , my whole life became just different dimension ... I hated myself being in bad , in pain, weak and useless, it was just hell. Now I have this bad around rib pain and upper back pain more left side.. feels sharp muscle pain like, a bit deeper. I am waiting to be me again ... hope it will be not worse menopause itself, since I saw comments that it could be bad as well ,,, 😦 hope not!
thank you for sharing , keep in touch please ! wish you all the best! ❤❤
p.s. sorry for my English , its my 5th Language ☺
serena11274 nina20271
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yes totally can relate, I have 3 kids 13, 15 and 11, thank god they weren't little at the time, I felt useless aswell and like a hypochondriac, as long as it doesn't come back with vengeance ill be happy, think my hubby got sick of hearing about it, but never did say, I felt too I was undiagnosable, thank god for this site cause as soon as I posted my story, so many could relate which convinced me it was definitely peri, still get odd weird pains randomly and symptoms but try not to read too much into it now as had nearly every test under the sun, take a look through my posts if you like incase I missed anything you too are experiencing.
priya82066 nina20271
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omg! this is me whatever you said totally resonated with me , it's my second year into this. my family is worried what is happening to me, I am worried if drs are missing something , I am not myself since a year now!!!
nina20271
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Sure this forum is my saver 😃 I too hope it is only peri , it cant be so many Ladies having bad disease and not being diagnosed at the same time with same symptoms:) well,, if its something else in my case , it will show up somehow anyways in future which I pray not! 😃 sometimes I stil think is MS, Im so paranoid from all this I have fobia already . lol
I will go through your posts, I also had bad night sweats and upset stomach and skin dry, ear ache,hair fall, you name it... One thing that is not fitting in peri is my cough, I will have ct scan again soon of chest, I had one year ago was all clear, but who knows, hope for good results. If thats all clear , I ll be sure its peri.
thanks a lot again!
jane64412 nina20271
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Hi Nina I've had burning and weird sensations in my legs, feet, arms and hands for 18 months i to are paranoid i have MS. I'm 52 and still get regular heavy periods, get very emotional and could cry out of nothing some days, have some really sad days (never know why I'm sad) and no motivation especially prior to my period and during my period, get sore teeth, gums and burning mouth (my dentist says this is due to fluctuating hormones) the list could go on and on. My Dr has said it's anxiety, stress and perimenopause. Although I've been told it's not MS and because the sensations in my legs very rarely go away I can't get it out of my head it's not MS which probably only adds to my anxiety. Good to hear I'm not alone.
nina20271 jane64412
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Hello, is this all so weird, isnt?
Im 43, had heavy periods now its less, I had such scary symptoms , I could never think it was related to perimenopause, I still think may be it is MS? but then I follow my period and all happens regarding to that. Hope we will be out of this soon.
jane64412 nina20271
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Hope so to. Take care. Good to chat.x
kristina14827 nina20271
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I get a tight feeling around my ribs and diaphragm as well but I'm pretty sure it is anxiety. I get pain at the bottom of the ribs monthly around same time of my cycle so I'm hoping its peri related. I've had odd sensations in my back for years now although I do go to a chiropracter for scoliosis but I have not been to see them in about a year due to covid. I have different areas that go numb and get pins and needle feeling that comes and goes depending on what I'm doing (like the dishes). I'm hoping the pain in ribs is due to my back issues and not being as active as I used to be with it being winter here..... I've also thought about MS or ALS . My mind always imagines the worst and I'm scared to go out of the house to see a doctor. I have to schedule a chest x-ray soon to make sure an infection I had 6 years ago hasn't come back as I have a cough that comes and goes as well. I'm too scared to go out and get the xray though. Let me know how you are doing now. It's hard to tell with these posts when they were first published??
nina20271 kristina14827
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Sorry you having all this too.
I developed cough , when all this started I had bad bronchitis and now again, its not covid , had tests many times,, my cough brings me in again to do ct scan , all old scans showed nothing. may be also related somehow to peri... I have bad back aches,my ribs kinda cracking feeling inside , Im falling apart I guess 😦 my legs do weird things, skin pulling sensations, like tightness, my muscle tone is different also... my left arm is weird, wrist tight kinda, cant even explain, my left face twitches and has also pulling like sensation, my ribs killing me... I dont know what all this is but its scary , I was wondering if those ms like symptoms could be in future actual ms indeed,,, so scared ! I was sure I had ALS cause my pelvic spasm caused gluteal spasm , very bad one with pain and after spasm was gone my left side glute is less than right one, so I thought it is ALS and wasting but I saw ALS specialist had emg , he said no , it is not but I still think something is not right.. everything is kind of on left side more , leg pain , spasm, face twitching... my thenar muscle twitches on left hand as well ... I wish its only peri for me... we will feel better soon I hope ❤ thanks for reply .!
kristina14827 nina20271
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have you had blood tests to see what your vitamin levels are like? Perhaps you need electrolytes? I've started using nuun tablets (one per day) as per recommended to my by a naturpath I'm seeing. ALSO, perhaps try taking magnesium daily. twitching sensations and muscle tightness are a sign of magnesium deficiency. Plus it helps with sleeping and anxiety a bit. also drink tons of water, super important. I think these are some of the more simple things you can try.....easy and cheap and safe. I hope you feel better! Let me know how it goes. Talking to all of you ladies on here really helps me a lot. I get good ideas on what to try 😃
nina20271 kristina14827
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my B 12 is low as well vit D. other is all good so far.I dont have anxiety per se.. I am more calm as I was before , tired most of the time. Hope we ll be better soon ! thanks a lot for support ! Much ❤ to all!