i had an nerve test normal emg shows mild moter unit potential abnormalities in disal foot muscles also in his office records he put the emg show an subtle sense of axonal componant to this it started aboat 6 months ago i felt like i had the flu everyday my mucsles hurt so bad then my jaw started going knum and i t went up my face only on the left side thn i had double vision and the bones in my face hurt so bad and my legs stated to gonumd and asleep up to my knees i fill these shocks all over my body also a headache in the back of my head on the left side my glands where swollen and i have been having a problem with my left gland being hard for aboat a year but everytime i took my tempature it was normal well my pc doctor did labs and it was normal and a chest xray normal then i ended up in the er because i couldend swallow very good they did an mri but it talks aboat small area of increased t-2 weited signal within the the periventricalar white matter adjacent to the right atrium of the lateral ventricule another focus of increased white matter signal is seen adjacent to the and lateral to the anterior horn of the left lateral ventricle it says these findings are non specific and could be related to vasculitis complex migrain and less likely demyelinating deasease anyway the neoro ther told me it was probably from smoking she told me i had the brain of a 80 year old im 46 anyway i went to a neor my pc gave me a refferal to for fu and i had already seen this guy in 2003 and 2005 five for hand numbness and feet but he said everything was fine this time he told me it could be anxioty but he did the needle test and he told me i have neurapathy i take 300mg of gabapentin 4 times a day he told me he can keep taking it up but im scared of if i keep going up so fast what if it doesent work anymore my doctor ordered the mri reports from the hospital he hassent seen them yet also i dident tell him aboat the biopsie on my neck gland because i wasent going to do it until the tightness in my neck went away do you think they are connected thank you for all your help my neoro is a man of few words all he said at my last appt was they have to keep a close eye on me and to come back in 3 weeks thank youi also have ptsd and anxiaty and deppression but i was on medication for that for 15 years but i was able to go off all 2/12 years ago until my anxiaty got real bad a month ago