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Originally Posted by mindovermatter
My symptoms have been a little strange so I thought I'd start a new thread. I'm new here and young( ish) (age 24) so please be gentle on me.
For 8 months, I had a gradual onset of the below symptoms (in order):
Headache, Flu, Paresthesia (tingling) in feet, paresthesia in hands and face, shocks, pain along nerves, pain around joints.
Due to the ascending nature of it, I assumed small fiber neuropathy. Most tests (including ANA, Lyme, EMG, NCV, etc...) have been normal.
The neurologists shrug and the medicines they prescribe (Lyrica mainly) don't work. ( What else is new?!)
So what is it? That is the question!
I have theories I would love to bounce around with people:
1. Cat Bite: I was bit by a sick cat I was cat-sitting a few months before onset.
2. dTap vaccine and Flu vaccine: I received both two months before onset
3. The flu: could this be post-viral? Where is the literature on this type of neuropathy?
4. I'm uber tall (6'10"). That must be a risk-factor. Multiple nerve entrapments?
5. Is it neuropathy at all? Could it be muscular? Connective tissue?
6. I'm crazy. I've had anxiety and somatization forever so maybe this is "just stress"?
Thanks for your time reading and your thoughts. I'd like to prove the doctor's wrong on this one so I'd love your help.  |
cat bite? Do you think the cat carries a pathogen, have it checked out for common organism cats can carry. Diseases from cats would show up with more symptoms than just PN.
6'10 is huge, but it has nothing to do with Neuropathy, unless theres a disorder related to your height.
3)is the most likely to trigger you event. Flu/cold has been suspected of triggering autoimmune disease/nueropathy.
i dont the vaccine would cause neuropathy, if you had the swine flu vaccine, there can be change you can get both pn and autonomic, but that would be guillan barre syndrome, and its rare disorder as well.