do you think these symptoms sound anything
like ms.
Sharp headaches
-several times daily (30-50), lasting
split seconds to about 30 though had them
for longer occasionally
-normally at front either side
vision blacks out for %uFFFD hour to 3 hrs
-blacks out ~ half vision in one eye but
can be either eye
-no resulting headache from these
-had about 8 of these this year
sore/achy eyes at back especially during
movement
weird vision disturbances where I feel
like i%uFFFDm looking through shadows,
have about 2 or 3 horizontal stripes
across eyes
sudden appearance of about 15-20 large
floaters and lines
double vision, worse at far away things
than closer though still happens closer up
as well
feel like I have lost some peripheral
vision and maybe some at top
muscle twitching/jerking %uFFFD no pattern
in these, happen randomly about 15 times a
day
tingling in hands and feet, and sometimes
feeling of my feet getting stabbed
shaking of eyelids, happens several times
a day but will stop for a few days as well
joint pain (shoulders, back, neck and
hips, less often knees and ankles
i went to a neuro and ophalmologist in
november last year, saw my optic nerves
were swollen and thought I had papilladema
but after spinal tap and mri of my head
(don't fully know what results were of
this) diagnosed me with buried drusen.
They were however mentioning whether it
could be optic neuritis. They didn't know
what the headaches were about. I%uFFFDve
so far tried 3 drugs for the headaches but
none have worked yet.
My question is (after all that),
everything i've looked at is pointing
towards ms. Is there anything else these
symptoms could point towards?
Some of your symptoms can be seen in MS
but typical for MS is that neurological or
eye symptoms comes in episodes. This means
they vanish (remission) and reoccur
(relapse) after some indefinite time. At
least 2 episodes of symptoms should happen
to assume MS. Beside episodic occurrence
of the symptoms, MS should be also proved
with MRI/CT scan of the brain
(demyelinisating plaques), lumbar puncture
(increased antibody level in
cerebro-spinal liquor) and "evoked sensory
electrical potentials" - test. In your
case, MRI and spinal tap probably didn't
confirm existence of MS so eye disorder
(buried drusen) became more likely option
at that time.
Would you tell me how your condition is
now?
