ErinKC
21-10-23, 14:41
I’m at my wits end. I’ve been doing everything right lately. I had a scare with some blood work and used it to motivate me to get healthy. In the last 6 weeks or so I’ve lost 10 pounds, started regularly walking, and have been eating an almost universally nutritious diet. My anxiety disappeared. I’d been taking lorazepam almost daily for a few months and the last several weeks I’ve not taken it at all.
Then last week I started getting a buzzing in my left foot. I put it off to walking in bad shoes at work. It persisted and got worse and worse until it was literally constant. Then it started to recede but was still there when I’d walk. My doctor suspected sciatica, which I also assumed. But as the buzzing improved, other things began. That same foot is almost constantly tingly with a feeling like I’m stepping on something. My other leg is also getting some prickles and pins and needles. Then yesterday my tongue stared to feel prickly and almost like there was a hair in my mouth that I couldn’t get.
I’m also twitching EVERYWHERE. Twitching doesn’t typically worry me, but it’s gotten crazy lately.
I’m just feeling kind of defeated because everything was going so well and I don’t know where this stuff came from. The blood work I had in August showed very high vascular inflammation. At the time my doctor thought likely because I had Covid in May. But another cause is autoimmune disease. Finally, my weight/overall health could be contributing.
The plan was to try and change diet, etc. and repeat. So I’ll probably repeat next week since I’ve lost 10 pounds now and been healthy. But I’m getting a bit stressed that maybe it autoimmune. I’ve never been an MS worrier ever. But we do have a family history of autoimmune diseases. My mom’s side is full of thyroid disease (I’ve been tested many times for that) and my brother has type 1 diabetes.
I’m tired!!
Then last week I started getting a buzzing in my left foot. I put it off to walking in bad shoes at work. It persisted and got worse and worse until it was literally constant. Then it started to recede but was still there when I’d walk. My doctor suspected sciatica, which I also assumed. But as the buzzing improved, other things began. That same foot is almost constantly tingly with a feeling like I’m stepping on something. My other leg is also getting some prickles and pins and needles. Then yesterday my tongue stared to feel prickly and almost like there was a hair in my mouth that I couldn’t get.
I’m also twitching EVERYWHERE. Twitching doesn’t typically worry me, but it’s gotten crazy lately.
I’m just feeling kind of defeated because everything was going so well and I don’t know where this stuff came from. The blood work I had in August showed very high vascular inflammation. At the time my doctor thought likely because I had Covid in May. But another cause is autoimmune disease. Finally, my weight/overall health could be contributing.
The plan was to try and change diet, etc. and repeat. So I’ll probably repeat next week since I’ve lost 10 pounds now and been healthy. But I’m getting a bit stressed that maybe it autoimmune. I’ve never been an MS worrier ever. But we do have a family history of autoimmune diseases. My mom’s side is full of thyroid disease (I’ve been tested many times for that) and my brother has type 1 diabetes.
I’m tired!!