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Q: Urologist suggested Multiple sclerosis
asked by: imsure32 on October 7th, 2009
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No one is testing me for this as of yet. I have been having symptoms for almost a year and have been to the doctor too many times to count during this time among other doctors. My symptoms started back in december of 2008 when I took a fall, it wasn't anything major but I started getting weaker and more off balance, I started having extreme pain all over but mainly in my back, my memory has gotten bad to the point I have turned on the stove and oven and forgotten it, just an example of a lot of memory problems, my eyes got blurry but it comes and goes, I am extremely fatigued constantly, I spend most of my time in bed unless im going to the doctor or the drug store, driving scares me because of my fatigue, I developed nodules/lympomas all over my body along with numerous cysts including cysts on my ovaries, a lot of swollen lymph nodes all over my body, I had chronic diarrhea for 6mos until I started taking pain pills then it stopped and over time became constipation for awhile but now I have break through diarrhea a lot again and it is very painful, I get horrible cramps that come in waves and sometime when I am "going" my arms go numb and I actually lose function in them like i'm paralyzed, I had a period of my left hand going numb and tingling then turned to severe pain and swelling and my fingertips would turn blue and it felt like they were going to explode! It was the worst pain I have ever felt and I have felt lots of sever pain (having kids, 6 surgeries in which i was cut open, one which i was cut hip to hip) it hasn't been as bad since I started b121 injections for b121 deficiency but i still get the feeling in my fingertips like it's gonna happen but it doesn't, I started having urinary problems where I couldn't urinate or when I would it would take a very long time and then it wouldn't be very much and it would burn a little and the frequency is annoying, it even wakes me up usually every two hours or so, the sclera (whites of my eyes) has a blue tinted circle around my iris, I have osteoarthritis in my spine,shoulders,hips,knees,and feet and i'm only 37, my periods have become irregular and always start out and end with a disgusting brown discharge, I itch all the time.. to be continued.. getting too long for one post
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imsure32
replied on October 7th, 2009
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Symptoms continued...
I should have proofed my initial post so I need to add some things and correct some things... b121 injections should be b12 spell check did that, also about my urinary problems it also starts and stops where I will have to sit there forever to empty my bladder, I also have bouts of severe lower abdominal/pelvic pain which may be from the ovarian cysts..?, and I have fallen asleep numerous times sitting on the toilet and due to my fatigue it sometimes isn't even because I sit for a long time, sometimes it's only a couple minutes and i'm out.. another add is about the cysts, I also have cysts all over both breasts (more about my breasts later)back to symptoms: headaches, low ptassium, I feel bloated and my stomach is swollen but I also have a huge incisional hernia that covers my whole right side so I don't know, pitted edema in my lower legs and ankles I sometimes have depressed areas happen without me pressing it and when that happens it's very painful, hair thinning/loss but no bald spots or anything, I can't walk very far due to pain and weakness and sometimes my legs will shake, especially if I have to take steps down, even one step.. I wake up jerking and shaking and foggy headed and extremely off balance, I used to have insomnia but now due to fatigue I don't really notice it except I stay awake more at night, I have a pinched nerve in my left arm or hand that caused my last two fingers to stay numb, I have bouts of nausea sometimes when I eat and sometimes just because, sometimes I can et normally and other times only a few bites, I have GERD but lately it has been bile instead of stomach acid coming up, I have lost 6lbs in the last week but I am mainly over weight down to 170lbs,I had breathing problems but that has gotten better since I have started advair and I also use an inhaler (albuterol).. to be continued...
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imsure32
replied on October 7th, 2009
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I know this is ridiculously long but I have such a long list of problems that I feel they all need to be listed to get the full picture.. oh, I forgot muscle twitches, they don't hurt but they happen all the time.. mainly in my thighs.. and I need to add that my pain is debilitaing even despite pain pill treatment.. now back to my breasts.. I woke up one morning and my right breast had grown at least a whole cup size larger then my left, (this is after all the other symptoms started) and both breasts are tender and I also get sharp pains in each breast here and there, I have swollen lymph nodes in my arm pit, I have pitting (pin prick looking pock marks that look like hair follicles only slightly bigger) on the underside of each breast I have pimple looking bumps that are very small, I have a couple sores that look different then the rest of my sores which I wil explain after this.. one in particular is really deep and the inside of it is white and it won't form a scab and it has some sort of plug in the center and it oozes clear liquid, my nipples are domed which kinda looks like new budding breasts when I developed as a child, the areola is lightening in color and the top is darker then the underside and it looks misshappened, I looked up those symptoms and it sounds like inflammatory breast cancer to me.. now back to the topic of sores, I broke out in sores back in august of 2008 and have had them all over my body ever since.. they take up to 6mos to heal and then the healed scar sometimes redevelopes back into a sore, they itch and are in varying degrees of severity some are really deep and painful while others seem superficial, I finally got some cream that seems to be helping but they are not healed yet. I also have itching on my hands and feet that will turn into welts and then form blisters and the same thing happens there too, they will rupture and scab and then heal and the healed scar will then itch and reform into a blister or blisters.. weird. now I will add my recect infections.. I developed staph in some of the sores and was treated with a sulfa antibiotic which I then had an allergic reaction to that lasted 5 days despite treatment with antihistimine and steroids and I had never been allergic to this antibiotic in the past, I got infected with H1N1(swine flu) then pneumonia and then oral thrush which got into my throat also and I have a bacterial eye infection and all this happened in a 2 week time frame and now after treatment for the thrush it has come back and I am no longer on any antibiotics or steroids so I don't know if it wasn't completely gone when treated the first time or if I got it again.. and lastly I will give a history of past illnesses and surgeries.. surgeries include gallbladder removed, tubal ligation, lung biopsy which was found to be BOOP (bronchial pneumonitis with organizing obliterans)or close enough haha, lymph node biopsy which was negative, abdomnioplasty (tummy tuck), and a partial nephrectoomy due to renal cell carcinoma (had part of my right kidney removed due to cancer), and other illnesses include fibromyalgia (16yrs), GERD,IBS,had viral menengitis two times, MRSA infection, pyelonephritis which I was hospitialized for, I got pneumonia while I was in the hospital after my lung surgery cause they over dosed me on morphine and I almost died! idiots! I think that's all the major things.. oh and anaphylaxis from ant bites.. ok, I think that's it.. if I think of anything else I will add another post... shew! God Bless you if you read this entire thing!
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imsure32
replied on October 7th, 2009
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I just wanted to add really quick that the only tests I have had done are some blood tests and a chest xray when I had pneumonia and i just had a mammogram and ultrasound of my breasts which I have an appt with a specialist about on the 12th.. and my urologist did some sort of test like an ultrasound to see if I was emptying my bladder which I was.. but I have yet to have a urinalysis or any biopsies or aspirations of any of my cysts or nodules... I am thinking about going to mayo clinic to get a diagnosis because it seems to me that my Doctors are only interested in treating symptoms and not getting to any type of diagnosis.. I am growing very impatient here! the only one I hold any form of hope for still is the breast doctor but that still doesn't tell me what the rest of my problems are.. any comments or suggestions are welcome...imsure32
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imsure32
replied on October 8th, 2009
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Well I am not getting any responses here so I guess my post is too long but in case someone does happen to read it I wanted to add that I did forget a cpl things.. (imagine that!) I did have a pelvic ultrasound that found the ovarian cysts and I also had, I think it was a ct scan of my whole body or a body scan of some sort that found the osteoarthritis, and I had a ct scan of my chest I think when I had pneumonia.. my memory is really foggy.. I am just learning to adapt to the memory problems so I now carry around a digital voice recorder... thanks to anyone who takes the time to care...
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zigemyster
replied on October 10th, 2009
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Make an appt with a neurologist.

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