Ms worries :-( help

[Anxious lu]

Okay so I see many people on here worrying about ms...

Now it's my turn I guess so scared about MS.. I have so many physical sympts of this so called anxiety...

I was wonderibg what anxiety symptoms mimic MS?

I had an MRI not long ago and have a follow up app with a neuro in January but they said its regarding let migraines.. Worrying now try have found something and are not telling me until then.. MRI was in September

[fozzy is crying]

Okay so I see many people on here worrying about ms...

Now it's my turn I guess so scared about MS.. I have so many physical sympts of this so called anxiety...

I was wonderibg what anxiety symptoms mimic MS?

I had an MRI not long ago and have a follow up app with a neuro in January but they said its regarding let migraines.. Worrying now try have found something and are not telling me until then.. MRI was in September

Seems you do not trust your Doctor? Have you any reason not to?

As to the results and you thinking they are not telling you something go to you GP and ask to see the report. It will cost you nothing to see it and I am sure your Doctor will only too pleased to go through it with you.

Gordon

[Anxious lu]

It's not so much I don't trust my dOctor more I don't trust anyone. I had no idea who referred me to the neuro I had to ring the hospital department who did the MRI. The secretary then said that doctor referred me because of my complex migraine symptoms..

If there was anything like that would it have shown on my MRI and would they leave it till January to see and tell me

[fozzy is crying]

It's not so much I don't trust my dOctor more I don't trust anyone. I had no idea who referred me to the neuro I had to ring the hospital department who did the MRI. The secretary then said that doctor referred me because of my complex migraine symptoms..

If there was anything like that would it have shown on my MRI and would they leave it till January to see and tell me

Unless you had a migraine at the time of the scan and even then it in most cases not show up to be able to diagnose it as that.

However FACT your GP will have had a full report about the scan from the Doctor who reviewed the results after the it. That report will not pull any punches and would include anything abnormal if there was any. There is no problem with you going to see your Doctor and asking to see the report. Ask him to go through it with you and explain anything you do not understand. It is your legal right to see it and his professional obligation to show you if asked. As long as you do not want a copy of it to take away he cannot charge you for seeing it.

So yet again I strongly advice you to go and ask to see the report to put your mind at rest. In the mean-time chill as if there was anything to worry about you would have been told.

Gordon

[Anxious lu]

Ah yes the MRI was for Tia .. I am only twenty so they found it unlikely and
More likely that I had a complex migraine but thought it best do the MRI just in case.. I have suffered migraines for years just without and aura that's what made them come to conclusion complex migraine.. I have heard neuros seeing people due to this.. :-S trying to tell myself of it was something bad I would know by now but this bloody anxiety won't let me..

Thanks for the help

[fozzy is crying]

Ah yes the MRI was for Tia .. I am only twenty so they found it unlikely and
More likely that I had a complex migraine but thought it best do the MRI just in case.. I have suffered migraines for years just without and aura that's what made them come to conclusion complex migraine.. I have heard neuros seeing people due to this.. :-S trying to tell myself of it was something bad I would know by now but this bloody anxiety won't let me..

Thanks for the help

An MRI for a TIA is very unusual. There would be nothing to see unless it was done within a maximum of 24 hours from its onset. Who said it was a TIA? Do you know what a TIA is and what causes them? I do and have quite a few. Twenty is very very young to have one it is more normal to have them in your 50s and males tend more to get them.

Gordon

[Anxious lu]

Yeah I know what it is lol they did it the next day and it's was at the stroke dept of the hospital.. The doc knew I had anxiety so put me in for it.. Maybe he was just being sympathetic to me.. And the Tia specialist said it deffo sounded like complex migraine but he will do an MRI so if or comes up I can say I've had one done.. The first attack I had that I thought was a stroke they said was an anxiety attack

[fozzy is crying]

Yeah I know what it is lol they did it the next day and it's was at the stroke dept of the hospital.. The doc knew I had anxiety so put me in for it.. Maybe he was just being sympathetic to me.. And the Tia specialist said it deffo sounded like complex migraine but he will do an MRI so if or comes up I can say I've had one done..

How many hours after the attack did you have the scan and did you still have symptoms of it at the time?

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Can you tell me all the symptoms you had please.

[Anxious lu]

Yeah sure the first one was tingles started in my hands quickly worked up and over my body and was really hot I stood up to talk and my speech was so slurred nothing was coming out.. This lasted about 15 seconds (they said it was anxiety) that's where my anxiety began. The second was numbness in my fingers which spread to my hand and an inability to talk in terms of confusion of words.. Followed by vision loss and headache (complex migraine) my usual migraines are visual disturbance pain and nausea..

[fozzy is crying]

Yeah sure the first one was tingles started in my hands quickly worked up and over my body and was really hot I stood up to talk and my speech was so slurred nothing was coming out.. This lasted about 15 seconds (they said it was anxiety) that's where my anxiety began. The second was numbness in my fingers which spread to my hand and an inability to talk in terms of confusion of words.. Followed by vision loss and headache (complex migraine) my usual migraines are visual disturbance pain and nausea..

You said hands. Does that mean you had it on both sides of your body?

[Anxious lu]

It's strange because it started in my left hand but moved across my whole body really fast well I noticed it in my hand first.. Stood up to shake itout and it had already spread across my body.. It was more pins and needles type feeling but hot. then I realised I was slurred

[fozzy is crying]

It's strange because it started in my left hand but moved across my whole body really fast well I noticed it in my hand first.. Stood up to shake itout and it had already spread across my body.. It was more pins and needles type feeling but hot. then I realised I was slurred

That is very unusual for this type of stroke or a normal stroke as they tend to only occur on one side and effect the whole of one side. Have you got a cholesterol problem and did they do a blood test?

[Anxious lu]

It's strange because it started in my left hand but moved across my whole body really fast well I noticed it in my hand first.. Stood up to shake itout and it had already spread across my body.. It was more pins and needles type feeling but hot. then I realised I was slurred

[fozzy is crying]

It's strange because it started in my left hand but moved across my whole body really fast well I noticed it in my hand first.. Stood up to shake itout and it had already spread across my body.. It was more pins and needles type feeling but hot. then I realised I was slurred

oops think you posted wrong to my last one as this is a repeated post

[Anxious lu]

Sorry my Internet is playing up big time!

Yeah it is strange.. They took numerous tests.. Pricked my finger, put wires on my chest, took like 6 tubes of blood then did some tests with the doctor strength tests etc with my arms then the main event (MRI)

[fozzy is crying]

Sorry my Internet is playing up big time!

Yeah it is strange.. They took numerous tests.. Pricked my finger, put wires on my chest, took like 6 tubes of blood then did some tests with the doctor strength tests etc with my arms then the main event (MRI)

But what about your blood cholesterol levels? do you suffer high ones?

[Anxious lu]

I've been asked this before and the honest truth it's I don't know.. I'm sure they would have checked but if it is high I'm not aware of it.

[JaneC]

Your symptoms sound identical to my friend's migraines.

[fozzy is crying]

Jane is right I was leading up to this I have had migraine all my life almost 64 years now.

[Anxious lu]

Thanks Jane what types of symptoms does she have?

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Oh Im glad you say that guys what symptoms that I have mentioned as linked to migraine.. I know the second attack with numbness etc.. What about the first one? I didn't have a headache for that and te docs said anxiety

[JaneC]

My friend has the pins and needles and numbness and speech problems Lu. As for the anxiety possibilities, as you said yourself, MS is is a common question on this forum but in the time I have been here, no-one has ever come back with an MS diagnosis. Also bear in mind that there are a lot of other things that can go on with MS that people don't widely know about (obviously I'm not going to say what they are), and it's always the well-known ones that people ask about - the pins and needles, muscle spasms and slurred speech.

I am sure if something out of the ordinary had shown up on your MRI you would have been told about it. Four months is a ridiculous time to wait for the results of one. My husband has his within a couple of weeks and my daughter, when she had an emergency one, right there and then. I think you should do what Fozzy says and get on to your doc x

[Anxious lu]

Ah Writing on here has really helped.. I heard back about the MRI that evening that there was no sign of stroke (which is why I had the MRI) the specialist then forwarded my results to my doctor.. I suppose as I had the results of the reason I had the MRI there was no reason to contact me further unless something abnormal was found .. So possibly a good sign? They just dont all know how our anxious minds work... :-( always jump to the worst conclusion

Has your friend had help for her migraine or seen a neuro?