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Q: Ms
asked by: cordelia on February 23rd, 2004
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Surgery 6 mos ago. Allergic reaction/ over medicated with anesthetic. Extreme fatigue, balance off, heat intolerence. Sent to neuro for suspected bells palsy. Neuro suspected ms. Sent for mri with contrast, c-spine mri, lp, evoked response, blood woork. All normal.
Symptoms went away until oct. This year. Fatigue returned. Neck felt like t-shirt was too tight.Constantly pulling at my neck. No sensation when swallowing. Heat intolerence, but no sweating even in 105 degree weather. Leg cramps esp. Calves. Lasted 3 weeks. Then went away.
January 2004 awoke to find fingers of rt hand curled over the top of each other. Fingers have burning and tingling sensation. No pain in fingers, hands, or arms. Leg cramps have returned and are much worse than first time. Both knees feel as if I have a rubber band around them. Toes have tingling sensation, and cramping. Can't wear socks.
Tongue and throat play "tug a war" all day long. Tongue feels like it is glued to the roof of my mouth to keep from being swallowed. Base of throat feels like a rubber band is strangulating me. Difficulty swallowing.
Symptoms lasted 2 weeks.
February (past week) throat strangulation back, lf hand fingers have started curling over the top of each other. Fingers in both hands are very sensative to touch. Knee bands are back. Legs have burning sensation. Toes curling constantly. Blurring and 1 1/2 vision of some words/people/objects. Left eyelid twitching constantly. Hold on to desk and walls to keep from running into things. Difficulty swallowing. Tongue very sore from being scraped against teeth each time I swallow. No sense of hot or cold when swallowing. Frequent need to urinate. Decreased output.
Should I contact pcp, neuor, or just ignore?Sorry this is so long, but I hope someone can help me.
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eyesoftheiwnd4u
replied on March 5th, 2004
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Hi new to all this myself. I have had symtoms for a while. Speach funny or slurring at times... Vision feels shot. .Hard to focus on things...

Legs feel weak and that cannot support body. .Knee on right side goes the same.. Hands and left arm all show signs.. Unfort several tests show as primary causes of ms but spinal did not.. Doc does not want to confirm 100% for if wrong etc..

If your symptoms come and go over time.. You should see neuro. If nothing more than to give you peace of mind. Unfort in my case it was at the 100% mark when spinal came back neg so now he wants to monitor over time.. Basically his voice eyes motions say yes.. But his words for liability reasons now say possible. To me say yes and I deal with it.. Not wonder hour by hour..

Hope you check into it.. At least then you have a direction to consider
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