hello my name is chad and i'm 42 years old and i've been having weird things happen to me since about november, let me start there. my father who battled cancer had finally lost his battle to his cancer in november which is about when i started to notice changes, i thought the changes were from the emotions of the loss of my dad but as time went on i have noticed more and more. by the time february came around i was missing a lot of work as they said i had irritable bowel syndrome and put me on a barage of meds. well by the time march came around my job fired me for missing too many days, at this point i was having headaches everyday almost non-stop which would flare into a migraine at the drop of a dime, then my left eye would go blurry. i would have this feeling of pins and needles run down my arms and get numbness in my fingers, and i stumble around, run into walls and trip like i have no balance control, my lower half hasn't went numb but tingles thank god, if i don't write things down i cannot remember them. i get tremors a lot almost like my body is totally shaking on the inside if that makes sense. i cannot go out in the heat anymore as it makes me shake even worse, i used to take very hot showers and now had to be for the most part cool or i get nausea so bad it makes me have to lay down. by this time i have been to3 different family drs. who keep saying it is anxiety and depression they are full of it it seems all they do is read each others reports. well i finally found a good fam dr who cares and is willing to run every kind of test till we figure it out, i got referred to a neuro who i went and seen and what a joke he turned out to be, he hardly looked at my mri of my brain which came back abnormal, i told him i had a severe case of mono about nine yrs ago he didn't seem remotely concerned about it, his diagnoses was he said i had the migraine gene-now howe can he come up to this if there wasnt any testing for it?? i also told him i have this jaw pain on the opposite side of my one sided migraine that goes int my ear and is very painful he told me to go see a dentist and told me to quit taking my pain meds and use a heating pad and most of all find a hobby. now i don't know a lot but i know when i'm in severe pain and this guy tells me to quit my pain meds. as far as the heating pad i told him i cannot be around heat of any kind and he said WHY. he told me i have anxiety and depression and i told him that if he had to live with whay i have he would have anxiety and depression and i walked out of that visit. i know have an appt next week with a neuro that's specialty is ms. hopefully they can figure this out as i have been living on retirement since april(medicaid pending) and i'm almost broke due to all these drs i've had to see and all the different meds i have been put on.
i'm sorry i wrote a novel but i but i feel i have been let down by the very ppl that are supposed to help and I'M SCARED!