Perhaps....and other problems, like thyroid damage.
http://chernobyl486.tripod.com/

There are many internet sites with explanations on Google.
I used this keyword search:
"medical issues following Chernobyl"

There is a form of neuropathy that comes from cancer.
It is called paraneoplastic neuropathy, and often precedes the diagnosis of cancer. So you should tell your doctor(s) you were so close to that radiation disaster.

TAKE the time, Go and get that diagnosis, no matter how fuzzily. Why? Because, from what you've said...you are going to have to MAP out for docs how FAST things are not working well. I believe you know where I'm coming from.. And That to be able to summarize all this crud, or deterioration? Will be the key to your diagnosis.. Time when X-doesn't work? Then Time when Y doesn't work.. Onwards down the 'bet'. Or upwards as it may happen. Still. DO NOT get caught in the quagmires...Get and keep any test results...It IS your right. And should a doc 'discount' YOU for any reason? You've the tests to prove that perspective wrong. I've been there? But somehow I knew what I was dealing with, and dealt my own 'hand' well, so to speak. The whole diagnostic phases are as stressful as can be? Once thru that? My own processes of a cancer diagnosis [and other things] - later, were a piece if cake! I simply told all 'testors' I AM TRAINED! And They could tell. Thanks to all my techs! They never let me panic!
Bailey? I can't imagine living soo close to such an 'event' and what it could do to you? I only hope that your body is strong enough to escape the worst of all the side effects! That and your spirit as well!!!!!!!!!!!! -cant do enuf of these things! Ya know? - j

I had my nerve conduction study done last week and now I am waiting on results of that. I noticed last week that I have a dull pain at my coccyx, especially when I bend down. Weird...

There are good days and there are bad days. Today is a bad day. The pain level is about 7 on the scale of 1-10. I'm hoping for just one day like today this week. Also, my face is numb (WTF) along with my arms and legs. I spent most of the day in heavy fog of dizziness. I'm losing my balance on every corner and my feet no longer "listen" to me. Played phone tag with Neuro office, found out I have an old compressed nerve in my neck. My appt is a month away... Now, what?

While things are 'hot' so to speak? I know what you're going thru, and it can scare you spitless? But the best thing YOU can do is keep a short simple steno pad next to you and outline date and TIME each new 'quirk' is popping up. Believe me, docs have short attention spans and you need to keep all panic out of your own 'assessment of yourself'. Essentially, you need to sell your 'case' to the doc as a real and honest one. THEN Say you're scared spitless. That way, docs KNOW you can and DO think clearly and are learning that you know enuf, tho not all,....NOT to be snowed by 'fat words'. When such 'words' are thrown out? I hand them my 'steno pad' and ask them to print whatever out CLEARLY. WOW! You'll understand their faces if you get the fat word speil....
Explain to the docs office that you are seeming to 'go downhill fast' and if you don't get a call-back that day? Call the next and cite the TIME you called the day before etc First in the AM then in the PM and keep doing it!... Seeing a doc in the offices is far, far less stressful than in an ER! Trust me, and others here on that!
My heart and a bit of strength that I can spare are with you! Hope and soon! Tho it may seem that glaciers move more rapidly than diagnoses! 's - j