[MetalMX]

I am a 20 year old male. I have been having these symptoms for about a year, in march they suddenly got better/improved then they got worse again.

- Seeing flashing spots in front of eyes when blinking sometimes
- seeing floaters or what looks like worms in the vision running around at times
- chronic fatigue/ feeling of generalised weakness
- sometimes air hunger/feeling breathless for no reason
- poor appetite
- muscle weakness
- reduction in the sense of touch
- tingling/pins and needles all over the arms, legs, head, and other parts of the body
- poor short term memory/difficulty remembering
- cold hands
- heart rate feels like its sometimes alternating fast with slow
- pulsing sensation in the neck and in the stomach
- hard to exercise/tolerance to exercise diminishing where as before i was able to exercise easily.
- mood alternating with good to suddenly feel suicidal
- sometimes feeling like i cannot speak (although this has been not very frequent)
- bowel movements all over the place


I have hashimoto's thyroiditis and am being treated with armour thyroid.

Am wondering if these symptoms are consistent with MS?

Im about to do EMG and nerve conduction studies with my neurologist also. My regular blood work has also always been generally normal.

I did a CT scan of the brain which showed posterior cortical atrophy abnormal for a patient of my age. Rest of the brain appeared normal.

I also have a moderate thoracic kyphosis. I sometimes when i lie on my back get numbness in a leg and a whole leg can go numb and feel very weird tingly for a minute and then it goes away. I was getting a massage the other day and when the masseur was massaging along my spine they pressed a bit harder with their elbow and i had really bad tingling down both my arms and legs, after i felt a bit disorientated/weird.

Also i have low IGF-1 levels 19 (24 - 102) nmol/L

It appears this itself (GH deficiency) can cause these symptoms... which GH could relieve.

So i am trying to figure out if this is being caused by MS or IGF-1 deficiency.