Moe80
25-04-08, 21:41
Hello everyone,
I am new here. :)
I am a 28 year old female and I've suffered from HA in some way shape or form for the last 10 years. 4 years ago it was at it's worse. I had a constant fear of lymphoma because of a swollen lymph node that had been on my neck my whole life. Even though none of the doctors were concerned about the lymph node, I just "knew" it was cancerous and I needed it to be taken out. I had it removed and low and behold. No cancer. Anyway, I had been doing good with my HA over the last 4 years until recently.
About a month ago we got a puppy. I didn't realize how stressful raising a puppy is. This is when my symptoms started cropping up.
To make a long story short, I ended up going to the ER three days in a row last week (Thursday, Friday, Saturday). The first thing that sent me there was this burning pain I was getting down my arms at night. It was getting so scary that I went to the ER on Thursday to check it out. After listening to my whole story and having them do a cervical (neck) x-ray, the doctor said I was having severe muscle spasms in my neck that my spine was all out of whack. Because muscle and nerves and everything are all intertwined, this was causing the burning pain. Of course, this didn't satisfy me. I thought it was something deeper in my spine causing this. So Friday, I go back to the ER and they do a spinal x-ray...basically tell me the same thing and send me on my way. Friday night I read about a certain kind of lung cancer that causes similar symptoms as mine. So Saturday I go to the ER and get a chest x-ray. Basically on Saturday they told me that I am having myofascial pain (a fancy way to describe muscle pain and spasms) and costochondritis (which is an inflammation of the cartilage between the breast bone and ribs and is brought on my emotional stress). The doctor in the ER on saturday said he could even feel my trigger spots that were causing my pain (I guess the cartilage feels different in those parts). I did start to feel a little bit better after my ER trip on Saturday, but now I am going downhill again.
Bottom line: I am still not feeling well. I am still having alittle bit of the burning aches and pains in my arms. I don't sleep right. I sleep on my stomach with my hands above my head. All the doctors have told me this can go a number on your skin, combined with the muscles spasms in my neck and back because of the stress...and yeah...not good. Anyway, I am still having those burny aches and pains in my arms, my head feels like its going to pop off of my body, I feel numb and tingly in various parts of my body off and on, and I am having random twitches. And oh yeah....they put me on Celexa a week ago and I haven't been able to stop shaking since....constant tremors.
All of this has got me thinking ALS, MS, some sort of nuerological disease....even though I've had 4 doctors do all those little neuro tests on my last week and nothing seemed off to them. I am thinking muscle spams and a pinched nerve could not be causing this....especially since I am having some symptoms head to toe.
Today the whole left side of my body is achey and I am having a hard time catching a good breath. The aches and pains travel all over but today it's the left hand side. I also have that horrible cloudy and foogy brain today which I hate. I feel like I am walking around outside of my body all day.
I am scared this is something that is going to kill me. Normal blood work, multiple x-rays later, and 3 er visits later and I am just not convinced.
I want an MRI or the spine and brain to make sure nothing is going on with me. I had a clean MRI of the head four years ago but I'm afraid something has cropped up since.
Please help calm me down. Can anxiety me doing this to me. I didn't have some of the these symptoms the last time around with me HA. No burning last time. This is scaring me most.
Moe
I am new here. :)
I am a 28 year old female and I've suffered from HA in some way shape or form for the last 10 years. 4 years ago it was at it's worse. I had a constant fear of lymphoma because of a swollen lymph node that had been on my neck my whole life. Even though none of the doctors were concerned about the lymph node, I just "knew" it was cancerous and I needed it to be taken out. I had it removed and low and behold. No cancer. Anyway, I had been doing good with my HA over the last 4 years until recently.
About a month ago we got a puppy. I didn't realize how stressful raising a puppy is. This is when my symptoms started cropping up.
To make a long story short, I ended up going to the ER three days in a row last week (Thursday, Friday, Saturday). The first thing that sent me there was this burning pain I was getting down my arms at night. It was getting so scary that I went to the ER on Thursday to check it out. After listening to my whole story and having them do a cervical (neck) x-ray, the doctor said I was having severe muscle spasms in my neck that my spine was all out of whack. Because muscle and nerves and everything are all intertwined, this was causing the burning pain. Of course, this didn't satisfy me. I thought it was something deeper in my spine causing this. So Friday, I go back to the ER and they do a spinal x-ray...basically tell me the same thing and send me on my way. Friday night I read about a certain kind of lung cancer that causes similar symptoms as mine. So Saturday I go to the ER and get a chest x-ray. Basically on Saturday they told me that I am having myofascial pain (a fancy way to describe muscle pain and spasms) and costochondritis (which is an inflammation of the cartilage between the breast bone and ribs and is brought on my emotional stress). The doctor in the ER on saturday said he could even feel my trigger spots that were causing my pain (I guess the cartilage feels different in those parts). I did start to feel a little bit better after my ER trip on Saturday, but now I am going downhill again.
Bottom line: I am still not feeling well. I am still having alittle bit of the burning aches and pains in my arms. I don't sleep right. I sleep on my stomach with my hands above my head. All the doctors have told me this can go a number on your skin, combined with the muscles spasms in my neck and back because of the stress...and yeah...not good. Anyway, I am still having those burny aches and pains in my arms, my head feels like its going to pop off of my body, I feel numb and tingly in various parts of my body off and on, and I am having random twitches. And oh yeah....they put me on Celexa a week ago and I haven't been able to stop shaking since....constant tremors.
All of this has got me thinking ALS, MS, some sort of nuerological disease....even though I've had 4 doctors do all those little neuro tests on my last week and nothing seemed off to them. I am thinking muscle spams and a pinched nerve could not be causing this....especially since I am having some symptoms head to toe.
Today the whole left side of my body is achey and I am having a hard time catching a good breath. The aches and pains travel all over but today it's the left hand side. I also have that horrible cloudy and foogy brain today which I hate. I feel like I am walking around outside of my body all day.
I am scared this is something that is going to kill me. Normal blood work, multiple x-rays later, and 3 er visits later and I am just not convinced.
I want an MRI or the spine and brain to make sure nothing is going on with me. I had a clean MRI of the head four years ago but I'm afraid something has cropped up since.
Please help calm me down. Can anxiety me doing this to me. I didn't have some of the these symptoms the last time around with me HA. No burning last time. This is scaring me most.
Moe