[mac001]

Hi guys I am 28 year old male with no health problems,7 months back I lost my job and after worrying my self sick I developed twitching all over my body even my tongue. I seen 2 doctors and they took blood and urine but did not find anything and told me its anxiety I do worry specially about my health. Well my twitching has stopped but now I don''t get it at all its like its gone, after its gone I developed second symptoms where I fell like some body is poking me and this cold felling all over my body but in spots like some body is touching me with ice cube, it would be all over my body face too I would also have pins and needles in my legs some time the felling would just be all over my legs and stomach like small explosions, I head that for couple months but that is gone to fallowed by new symptoms where now I would fell burn in my shoulder leg tights and arms biceps and brachiorasalis that is the muscle located in lover arm I don''t fell week just that the pain is there it would be fast burst of pain or like I was working out. I think its called the burn and some times I would fell like something is pooling me like I am about get dizzy just strange felling in my head that head stopped to I don''t get them at all. I went to emergency room first time I fell this and doc told me it''s just something that we get when we are stressed. I got this burning felling on my left side of my face and it was so weird and my skin fell tight after I went to the emergency room and I seen the same doc before he told me that we all get staff like this from time to time and that its nothing to worry about I told him what about MS or other neurological problem he told me that he does not believe its ms I told him how can you be sure he told me listen to me I seen over 4000 patients and I would worry if you come to me with the arm that was limp and u could not move it or swallow or see. I wont lie I do concentrate on my body and what is felling I always think that I have MS or something. It hard to explain this to the doctor since I don''t have 1 and I have to go to walk in clinic and they just don''t listen to me, one actually told me that he does not have time to listen to my symptoms he wants to know what is worn now. I rely don''t know what to do here any more its like 1 symptom after another one goes away ad another comes after felling this tingling in my legs my calf been leg calf muscle been bothering me just slightly like it tight in upper region its been like this for weeks. I have appointment with neurologist on July 15 but I am afraid that he might be just like those assholes at walking in clinic where I am just a number. If any of you have any suggestions how to approach this or my Neurologist or the doctors at walk in clinic it would be great I just don''t know what is wrong with me.

For you to understand me clearly.

First it started with twitching is gone.
1) Then it was cold felling like some body is touching me ice cube or slight burning and pricking with needle. That is gone now.
2) Ants in my legs/vibration at bottom of my feet/calf in one spot not all over that is gone 2 but my calf muscle is in discomfort doctor give me anti-inflammatory meds and ultrasound appointment for which is all fine.
3) Now new symptom slight burst of pain or bur in my shoulders and arms and upper leg hip area come and goes and its not muscle pain its that deep pain like its nerve.
4) Some weakness in shoulders for 2 weeks but its gone to.

Thanks guys

[daniella]

A few thoughts but first welcome to our community. I am sorry you are facing this. I am not as knowledgable as many here but have been to so many docs and many are idiots but you can't give up. I have seen multiple docs in the same field to get answers and tests run. Do you have insurance? What state do you live in? I think it is good you are going to a neuro and hopefully they will run an mri and other tests to rule out ms etc or find more answers. Since I don't know if you have insurance some of this may be hard. I would also try to find a good primary doc like an internist. How long ago did this start? Can a family member go with you to an apt? I am a younger one here too 29 and when I first started to go to apt I was unprepared. Now I am more armed. I always go with any test results I have,a list of my symptoms and questions. Don't back down if the doc brushes you off. I had to push so hard for one of my mris but they ended up doing it. Better to be safe then sorry. I know how scary this is and lonely. Anxiety is part of my life too because there is so much unknown. Please hang in there and I hope one of our experts will come along. Some of the info I learned here is better then some of the top docs I have seen at major hospitals

[dahlek]

steer you in the right directions for STARTERS. By 'starters' I mean that it's really too soon to say if you are anywhere NEAR getting diagnosed?
For starters I suggest you read the second 'Sticky' at the top section of this page. It's chock full of info about PN and diagnosis.

I think we all begin to panic when we get 'numb' thinking the worst such as MS. But many neuropathies are similar in the nerve destruction process to MS only in MS the problem happens in the brain, ours happens at the nerve 'ends'. Any really good neuro diagnostic workup is the process of eliminating the diseases that CAN be readily diagnosed, then they work down the 'problem tree'.
Read these sites and I hope they will help you understand the basics of the exam, and also how PN among other things are zeroed in on.
http://www.neuroexam.com/content.php?p=2 and
http://www.aafp.org/afp/980215ap/poncelet.html
In addition, check out the worksheets at www.lizajane.org for an outline of all the likely and less likely tests that and/could be done in the testing for various neuropathies. Be sure to get copies of your tests and other report results!
This should help you as you go down the medical diagnosis pathways we all have gone down. I know that mid-July seems a long way away, but it'll come faster than you know! Keep your anxiety down as low as possible. Stress never helps such things for sure. Do let us know how you get along and are faring! - j

[Silverlady]

When you lost your job, did you also quit eating correctly? Are you a vegetarian? I noticed you seem to know a lot of muscle names..are you a weight lifter and do you take supplements of any kind?

Billye

[DejaVu]

and welcome!

I am sorry you are having a rough time.
Yet, you have come to a great forum for help!

[mac001]

Thanks guys for your replayes

daniella- I live in Canada Ontario and all the medical tests are free or covered by government so i don't have to pay for anything. I am 28 and yes i can get a family member to come or a good friend. All of this started 5 months back.

Silverlady I moved to Toronto with a friend when i got a job its was my first time of being independent and i was wary proud you know being on my own, and no i did not eat that well like i would be if i was living at home where my mom cooks. Yes i did lift weights before but not any more but most of the symptoms started when i moved back home and i took this labor job which i did since high school and swore never to do again but money made me take it again and its being help to a granite shop where i would lift heavy granite stone up to 300kg or more with 2 another guys its wary bad on my body i stop dont that job and my body fells better. When i was living alone and i would come home to see my parents my mom would say look at him he lost so much weight. I mean i been sick for the most of my child hood lung operation and i don't think i can take another disease i mean i cant even think what my mom went through when i was a kid, jumping from hospital to hospital. And this is constantly on my mind i do so much research with every twitch or felling its driving me crazy i think i have it all from MS TO ALS. But other strange thing is when i don't don't think about it i don't have it, today i wen to Toronto to seem friends for weekend and i head nothing no symptoms and when i get home to my room its like i start to think.

Thanks guys for your help and i will see my nuro with the list of all the symptoms, and i will keep you informed

[Silverlady]

I'm glad you are seeing a neurologist. Be sure to tell him about the diet issues (not eating right), lifting those heavy weights and were you breathing granite dust?

Billye

[Koala77]

Just wanted to say hello, and welcome you to NeuroTalk.

It's good to have you with us.

[mac001]

Thanks guys you are wary supportive and no i am not exposed that much to granite dust since i work on location or homes i was not working at the shop where there is so much dust and if there is any dust i always try to protect my self by hawing a mask. And i did try to be vegenterian i do it for few days and then i get back but i did menage to do it for almost a months where the symptoms just started but i always go back to my old eating habits which is good now since i stay at home and my mom cooks good.

Thanks guys
Mac P

[mac001]

Hi guys i am wondering since my health care here in canada is free what tests can i ask or demand for if my nuro dont give me any and what test should i ask for or demand i would like to have some tests and today i finaly got my self family doc thanks good after 3 months of waiting and i askd him for b12 test and i am getting 1 tomrow and thanks guys i love this forum i been to so many here i fell like people listen to me.