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I have had the exact symptons with anaxity years ago. I have MS now for 11 years and let me discribe to you my symptons, if that is alright with you.

Here's just a few: Mental Confusion like I can't follow a one hour program, depression and I mean severe, pain in my head Rt side, neck and down to my right arm including inbetween the shoulder blades, I feel the whole body as if it were shaking inside, my legs feel like needles are poking in them for hours, you know the type where you have to keep on moving them.fatigue, I feel as if I can't even make myself a meal and of course, there is anger, with myself or with the disease, I don't know other than I hate it when other family members tell me that I can do that, yeah right. I use a cane just to steady myself when walking.

Those are the just of what I go throughy even though I give myself meds daily and shots three times a week. Here's the kicker, the only way to find out if you have MS ot other diseases is for it to be active. That's how it showed up in my spinal puncture and in the mri;s I had. I will tell you one thing from 11 years of experience, if you feel you have something wrong, make sure the doctor checks you out to ensure there is nothing wrong.
The feelings you have, I had with an anaxity attack. Those attacks don't last forever. Atkeast not in my case.


Good Luck and I hope everything works out, ok?

thanks Jerry,

I'm sorry you have been going through all that you have! It sounds very frustrating and I'm sure painful. For all that I worry and obsess about having something wrong with me. Its a reality check to hear from people who do live and function well for 11 years or more with these problems.
Thank you for your response.

I know I suffer from chronic anxiety and health concerns. Last summer I spent 3 months really thinking I had breast cancer.
Some people get very upset with me.
Its just hard to know what came first, the symptoms or the anxiety. The sensations feel very real.
So far I don't have fatigue, heat sensitivity, mobility changes or numbness or eye peoblems.
I have these mild "ting" or "spark" feelings that happen anywhere in my body for a split second. I also think that if it is anxiety, I will keep feeling them while I'm concerned about them. Its a vicious cycle. I try to stop worrying but then I feel them and start to worry.
I'm angry that I've let myself be debilitated by anxiety. Worrying so much that I cause myself to feel ill, not enjoy going out or friends/family, not able to relax or do my work sometimes.

Thank you again.

Hello Again,

First of all, I would like to suggest that you never allow anything to interfer with life. It's kind of like that man who went into the docto to tell him how much his wrist hurt and as he showed the doc he said it hurts when I do this. The doctor replied by saying, don't move your wrist! That wasn't quite the same example but with our lives it almost rings true. The more we allow anything to make us feel ill or bad, we just think about something else and soon the feeling goes away.

Please, don't take me wrong, if you have something that has been bothering you, don't allow the doctors to do what I went through:

For the first ten years of this disease, I had one doctor tell me that it was in my mind, I went to San Francisco and say one of the best doctors in the world and guess what he told me? Your right, he said there was nothing wrong with me. Next I went to a doctor in Stanford. Now this one wanted me to stay for more testing. He knew there was something wrong and he wanted me there but I couldn't afford it so back to Fresno I went.

Back in Fresno, a new doctor told me that I might have ALS and did the testing right away in his office to ensure that I didn't. He told me that the problems I was experiencing doesn't come from the neck and even told me that the neck surgerrg wasn't needed! He said what I had apeared to be MS. He ran the MRI'S but since the disease was not active, he said that I had a pinced nerves in my neck. Does that make any sence? I went another year on pain meds like Morphine, two different types which seemed to work, so I thought it was a pinched nerve.

One day I went to this pain specialist with my sister and she pointed out my slurred speach and my problems walking. The doctor refered me to another doctor and after three MRI's and a spinal tap, he gave me the good news. I have MS and started me on injections. So far I feel the after effects of that med, Rebif. I think that I am worse now than before but he asked me to go for another month. That would only make three months.

You know my friend, what I am trying to tell you in my leghtned way is that if one doctor doesn't give you an explination to what you feel, well you might have to go to another. ONE THING, don't dismiss what she said as wrong because this MS I had anaxity attacks also and they carry the same symptons as what you told me. I am not a doctor, juist a friend trying to help. You and if I understand your age, your parents are going to have to make a decission on what to do. Make sure to tell everyone what you are going through including the doctor. One question for you if it is alright, has anything changed in your life in the last year?

You got most of my story and I hope that you rely on someone who can make an informed decission, OK? Take care of yourself and keep me informed as to what is happening, please.

Bye for now,

Jerry

Thank you Jerry,

I'm not too young...ha ha, I'm 35. I've had anxiety and panic for many years now.
I have talked to my doctor several times. The last time I saw her it was because I thought I had breast cancer.
I try to not let these fears get in the way of my life but they do from time to time. I find the best thing is to keep very active.
I am very thankful that I have the energy to get out and walk when I feel anxiety.
I felt this tension and tingles about 2 and 1/2 years ago after my father died and I found it very traumatizing.
I do have some other changes in my life at the moment and another illness in the family that may also be contributing to my anxiety symptoms.
I'm not sure that I have symptoms at the moment that suggest I need
further testing??
I guess I will have to wait and see.
Did you have other symptoms in the beginning?
I guess anxiety and stress can cause these strange feelings.

I think the hardest thing whan it comes to a doctor is the guess work. You tell her all your symptoms and she combines all of them and comes up with a diagionosis. As far as breast I thought that I had it also cancer because of a large lump in both breasts. After seeing the approiate doctor, and whatever that thst womem go through every year or two to ensure they don't have breast cancer, I went through blood work and that terrible tesl where they literially compress your breast until they are in the picture. I tell you, when a woman says she doesn't want that test, I have a new perceptive on what they say. Never again will I just come out and say, you need the test so go and get it.

Back to your breast cancer....if you are able to see the proper doctor, by all means go. Maybe you will find out what I did. Men after a certain age grow these "lumps" in their breasts. When you touch them they hurt. So I guess what I am saying is not only will you have breasts like mine about the size of a B cup but there will be pain also. In my case, it was normal for what was happening. As for you, you need to talk with your doctor and I mean talk, so that a plan can be drawn up to find out what is going on. I have found that it is easy for us to self diagionase ourself but are we right? Of course not. Talk with your doctor and work out a plan that will be beneficial for the both of you, alright????

I hope in some way that I was a help???? Take care my friend and I hope to hear some good news in the future.

Jerry