ECR
25-01-07, 21:04
Hi all,
Just wondering if anyone could tell me if they've been through this?
I've been waking up with one or the other hand (sometimes both) numb - pins and needles and somtimes several fingers are totally numb. This corrects itself as soon as I move my arms.
Then I started experiencing very slight sensations in my right hand and arm. Nowhere near pins and needles and certainly no numbness as far as I can tell (though in my anxiety I do feel the need to check). After a week and a half of total anxiety that it could be MS, I realized that the points on my right hand and arm where I would get these feelings is the exact points where the straps of my very tight rucksack scrape along my hand and arm evertime I put it on.
Also been having very slight visual oddness - I'm sure anxiety based and nothing major.
I have seen my heart specialist, a locum GP and had a full eye test. All have said this is probably nothing and doesn't sound like MS. Indeed my eye test was near perfect.
The problem is I getting odd pains and a little pins and needles in my right foot. My feet (and my hands at times) get really really cold and I get weird tension feelings in my feet. I also get the odd little small spot of tingling at various points on my leg.
My understanding of MS symptoms is that they have to last consistantly for at least a day and have to cover a signifigant area of the body (not a single finger or a small little 'spot'). These would suggest that whatever is going with me, its not MS. And yet I am still terrified. Like all of us, we could let go and stop worrying if the symptoms stopped.
Anyone had these symptoms? Anyone have anything to add that I should know?
Thank you for reading!
Chris
Just wondering if anyone could tell me if they've been through this?
I've been waking up with one or the other hand (sometimes both) numb - pins and needles and somtimes several fingers are totally numb. This corrects itself as soon as I move my arms.
Then I started experiencing very slight sensations in my right hand and arm. Nowhere near pins and needles and certainly no numbness as far as I can tell (though in my anxiety I do feel the need to check). After a week and a half of total anxiety that it could be MS, I realized that the points on my right hand and arm where I would get these feelings is the exact points where the straps of my very tight rucksack scrape along my hand and arm evertime I put it on.
Also been having very slight visual oddness - I'm sure anxiety based and nothing major.
I have seen my heart specialist, a locum GP and had a full eye test. All have said this is probably nothing and doesn't sound like MS. Indeed my eye test was near perfect.
The problem is I getting odd pains and a little pins and needles in my right foot. My feet (and my hands at times) get really really cold and I get weird tension feelings in my feet. I also get the odd little small spot of tingling at various points on my leg.
My understanding of MS symptoms is that they have to last consistantly for at least a day and have to cover a signifigant area of the body (not a single finger or a small little 'spot'). These would suggest that whatever is going with me, its not MS. And yet I am still terrified. Like all of us, we could let go and stop worrying if the symptoms stopped.
Anyone had these symptoms? Anyone have anything to add that I should know?
Thank you for reading!
Chris