Hi everyone, I am new to this forum, and I
could use your help. For the past 2 years
I have been experiencing ankle and calf
swelling everyday. I have gone to my
doctor who did just about every test on me
possible. He found no cause of why my
ankle/calves swell as they do. My
cholestrol is normal, sodium, sugars,
blood pressure, etc. I am definitely not
over weight. I had EKG's, Echo's, DMV
test, etc. all come back fine. About a 7
months ago, I have been starting to
experience a lot of pains in my legs and
now in my arms. It started bothering me
occasionally, and now bothers me every day
as well. Some days my legs feel week,
some days the pain is severe, numbness,
burning, tingling, stabbing pain. All
depends some days worse than others. My
arms hurt, sometimes feel week. Sometimes
I get spasms in my arms and legs too. I
can't stress how many blood tests I have
had that came back normal. They checked
for everything possible with no positive
results. Lately my eyes have been going
blurry, foggy, my arms and legs are
getting weaker and weaker. My doctor sent
me for an MRI on the brain and said they
found one lesion. He is convinced I had a
stroke. My question is, how could I have
a stroke and still feel so bad. other
days worse than others. I don't just feel
numb, pain on one side of body, I hurt all
over and I am weak all over. Now I have
to go for a TEE test to see if there is
any blockage or damage to my heart. I
don't think that I had a stroke, or if I
did, I don't think that is the only
problem I am experiencing. I believe it
is MS but he doesn't want to see that. I
have almost every symptom for it. My
mother had polio as a child...Anybody have
any suggestions on what I should do?
Multiple sclerosis is really on of the
possibilities as far as stroke too. You
can request spinal tap to exclude/confirm
MS or stroke. If you have MS there should
be detected increased level of
immunoglobulins and lymphocytes in the
cerebral liquor. If you have stroke there
should be no imunoglobulins and
lymphocytes increased in the
cerebro-spinal liquor.
Trans-esophageal echocardography (TEE) -
test is used for investigating the organs
in the chest cavity not the brain.
You can consult some neurologist about
this.
