anxietyg
26-06-18, 14:12
Hello everyone,
First post here, but I've been reading the forum for several months, and finally decided to share my story with you.
Male, caucasian, 28 years, normal weight for my height, pretty healthy in the past, no hospital period etc.
Last year I had a VERY stressful period regarding my health since a doctor found at a routine ecography an enlarged spleen. I've been through countless investigations (colonoscopy, endoscopy, abdominal CT, tests for Hepatitis B, C, HIV etc. all - through the grace of God- all the results were negative).
Did some more bloodwork and found antibodies of a virus called Toxoplasmosis - a cat spreaded virus- that can cause an enlarged spleen.
For several months I had a continuous serious health anxiety shock combined with panic attacks, shortness of breath, lightheadness, dizzyness, racing heart etc, you name it
Because of the dizzyness I had an MRI in September last year and found nothing wrong with my brain. It was a MRI without a contrast substance.
I was googling my symptoms every time I had the chance to use my computer and found some stories about MS, ALS and other neurodegenerative diseases. This january i started developing muscle twitches all over my body: eyelids, scalp, legs, arms, calves, stomach, shoulders, every muscle strand in my body was twitching at a given moment or another.
This set the panic to a new level, I was trying to calm myself by thinking that this is BFS.
What scares me lately is some kind of a foot drag. I've read some stories of patients that said the MS started with feet dragging. Sometimes when I walk i can hear/feel my feets dragging on the surface I walk even though my normal walk/gait is not a draggy one. It doesn't happen that often but it happens. I became so AWARE of the way I walk that i feel like I'm not walking normally. I didn't notice one of the feet to be dragging more than the other.
I don't feel any particular weakness in any of my limbs. I can sprint as I did before, still can jogg for about 2 miles without training prior to this.
The problem is that I am so AWARE of everything that moves in my body "Was that a twitch?" "My finger just twitched?" "Why my head hurts!?" "Why i feel my hand numb?!" and so on.
Right now, my biggest concern is MS/ALS or other diagnostics in this spectrum.
God bless you all!
First post here, but I've been reading the forum for several months, and finally decided to share my story with you.
Male, caucasian, 28 years, normal weight for my height, pretty healthy in the past, no hospital period etc.
Last year I had a VERY stressful period regarding my health since a doctor found at a routine ecography an enlarged spleen. I've been through countless investigations (colonoscopy, endoscopy, abdominal CT, tests for Hepatitis B, C, HIV etc. all - through the grace of God- all the results were negative).
Did some more bloodwork and found antibodies of a virus called Toxoplasmosis - a cat spreaded virus- that can cause an enlarged spleen.
For several months I had a continuous serious health anxiety shock combined with panic attacks, shortness of breath, lightheadness, dizzyness, racing heart etc, you name it
Because of the dizzyness I had an MRI in September last year and found nothing wrong with my brain. It was a MRI without a contrast substance.
I was googling my symptoms every time I had the chance to use my computer and found some stories about MS, ALS and other neurodegenerative diseases. This january i started developing muscle twitches all over my body: eyelids, scalp, legs, arms, calves, stomach, shoulders, every muscle strand in my body was twitching at a given moment or another.
This set the panic to a new level, I was trying to calm myself by thinking that this is BFS.
What scares me lately is some kind of a foot drag. I've read some stories of patients that said the MS started with feet dragging. Sometimes when I walk i can hear/feel my feets dragging on the surface I walk even though my normal walk/gait is not a draggy one. It doesn't happen that often but it happens. I became so AWARE of the way I walk that i feel like I'm not walking normally. I didn't notice one of the feet to be dragging more than the other.
I don't feel any particular weakness in any of my limbs. I can sprint as I did before, still can jogg for about 2 miles without training prior to this.
The problem is that I am so AWARE of everything that moves in my body "Was that a twitch?" "My finger just twitched?" "Why my head hurts!?" "Why i feel my hand numb?!" and so on.
Right now, my biggest concern is MS/ALS or other diagnostics in this spectrum.
God bless you all!