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Originally Posted by iskimud
Hello,
I am new here and looking for a diagnosis. I guess you guys probably get these posts on the time. It started with bad pain in my spine. Then a couple months later I started getting numbness in my hands and they started to not move right. Just most recently I started getting numbness in the top of one thigh. My back does not hurt too bad when I wake up in the morning. But, any movement of the spine, or most movements of my arms (as the muscles attach there) causes the pain to get worse until I am in tears if I ever try to do much. Could this be MS? Or are the pains that are caused by MS constant throughout the day?
Thanks for your help.
Sad, scared and in a lot of pain.
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I dont know what you have, (like others said, we dont diagnose here) so I'm hoping that whatever you do have is something that's easily fixable and not MS or anything worse.
I have fairly serious lower back pain. It's in the lumbar section of my spine. My MS lesions are higher up. (T12 and C4) They didnt find anything in my lower back to explain my back pain. (which is actually why I was getting an MRI at the time. They'd "ruled out" MS, and my regular doctor was looking for a reason for my back pain...I wasnt really suprised tho)
My neuro told me that my low back pain is probably due to a car accident that I had in 1999. (t-boned a moron who turned left in front of me) He also told me it could be from the way I walk because I've got bad knees, which are giving me bad hips.
So, even if they were to tell you that you have MS, MS isnt always to blame for aches and pains. We're not immune to other physical problems.
But, you should do what some of the others suggested, go to your doctor and have them check things out for you. Hopefully you wont have anything too serious.