I'd appreciate you taking the time to read through this. I really need some help and peace of mind. Just a little background and then the current. It's been a little under a year since i've posted, but now that I'll be approaching my "anniversary" to first symptoms mark I'm starting to feel more and more anxious that they'll return or something new will come about.

In Summer 2011 (at 24 yrs old) I started losing my hair (rapid shedding which ended up lasting 8 months). Then in Oct 2011 I woke up one morning with what felt like a painless zap go up the back of my head and then my whole left side felt numb. I could walk and do everything just fine, but when I touched my left side there was slightly less sensation than on my right. That went away within a few days. Was referred to a neuro by med clinic since it was the weekend and my pcp wasn't open, had an MRI of brain and spine which were clear. Of course I had googled after this symptom came up and freaked when I read MS so maybe it's possible I gave myself so much anxiety I brought on a bunch of other little symptoms with it - such as stiffness, a random bout of joint pain, rash on my body. I was so worked up, my mind was never at peace. All that went away once I got my MRI results and blood work back and was told by several doctors there was nothing to be concerned about and that it was likely anxiety due to the passing of my mom the year prior, and i was trying to finish my last year of college with a full load. I eventually believed that because I was so close to her and refused to accept that she was gone therefore I never grieved or let myself deal with it. It was just all building up inside (still is 3 yrs later - still haven't dealt). But then some weird symptoms came back a year later, and I thought...Ok, I guess it wasn't stress/anxiety...

So, after all my symptoms went away I was fine for months and months, until August 2012. I started losing my hair again and woke up one morning to SHOCKS in my inner left calf! Literally felt like electric shocks, like I was being zapped from the inside. It was so painful and made me recoil and cry out every time. I saw my dr that day and he just assumed magnesium/sodium def even though I was positive this was nerve and not muscle. Told me to drink a lot of gatorade that sent me on my way (didn't help fyi). Thankfully the severe zaps tapered off and only lasted that one day but ever since then I've had mini versions of those zaps. More like nerve twinges of pain that don't make me stop in my tracks, but it's enough to be uncomfortable and scare me and make the baby hairs stand up on my body.

Ever since that Aug 2012 shocks ordeal, I have also had small muscle twitching, occasional muscle jerks, pins prick sensations all over body, occasional ear ringing, another couple of bouts of numbness but it wasn't my whole side this time. Once it was my face and a patch on my shins, and thighs/arm. The numbness didn't stick around past a day or two, and the leg thing only happened for a few seconds that one time, but these other little symptoms like pin pricks and muscle twitches come and go still, but they were MUCH worse when I seemed to be in my high state of anxiety after the severe shocks happened! So far in 2013 I've only experienced the little nerve pain twinges, pin pricks and twitches (which like I said do come and go more often than other symptoms), and am currenty going through another bout of hair shed. And a month ago I woke up one morning and rolled off the bed to find my right leg collapse on me. I tried to stand twice before it was normal again. I have NO idea if that's a concerning thing, or if I just slept on it weird and it was very asleep, but it wasn't tingling so I don't know.

What should I do? I went back to my neuro after the shocks (but before all the other little symptoms) in Sept 2012, but he didn't think it was necessary to re-do the MRI because my previous one from the year before had been so clear and he didn't really seem to know about these shocks or seemed to have been familiar with that. He suggested sciatica and i had a lower back MRI but it was clear, and it didn't behave like sciatica to me. i have a new PCP and I was thinking of asking her to see the neuro she would refer and get another opinion.

I know symptoms of MS can also mimic symptoms of other conditions. All my blood work (last done Nov 2012) has been fine, but my thyroid was slightly low on one of them. But, some of the symptoms that throw me are the shocks and hair loss (just started up again a few weeks ago), because I've never seen those symptoms with anyone who I've read has MS. What do you think? No one in my fam has an autoimmune or really any heath conditions other than maybe high blood pressure. I just know something isn't right with me, but I'm terrified it could be MS even though it could be something else that's a mimic of it? Always thinking the worst possible thing, right? *sigh*