solly
02-05-09, 22:24
Hi all,
Dont know if anyone can help or at least make some sense of this...
Where to begin, firstly I began to experience strange symptoms a few months after my child was born, I began to get a tingling sensation in my leg, then weakness in my leg and burning in my knees, anyway the symptoms began to get worse I started to feel fatigued and just focused on my health. I went to my GP who referred me to a neurologist who then ran loads of tests on me including a couple of MRI scans as I was then convinced I had MS. All the tests came back fine and after being gievn a drug for nerve pain began to recover (however it did take a couple of months).
Which brings me to now, the same symptoms have appeared and have now again convinced myself I have MS as sometimes the tests do not pick it up. I am totally obsessed with this, have no energy, feel totally weak my legs are burning and twitching and I just cannot drag myself out of it because the physical symptoms are always there. My GP has suggested it is a stress/anxiety problem so that's why I'm here, does anyone think that such horrible physical symptoms can be due to anxiety and why, also if they are how on earth do I get rid of it if it's constantly 'there' and ruining my life?
I feel like a bit of a freak as I thought that stress/anxiety was all in the head and could not create this! Where do I begin if this is anxiety esp when I have totally convinced myself that it is something more?
Thanks in advance,
a very frightened and confused
Solly
Dont know if anyone can help or at least make some sense of this...
Where to begin, firstly I began to experience strange symptoms a few months after my child was born, I began to get a tingling sensation in my leg, then weakness in my leg and burning in my knees, anyway the symptoms began to get worse I started to feel fatigued and just focused on my health. I went to my GP who referred me to a neurologist who then ran loads of tests on me including a couple of MRI scans as I was then convinced I had MS. All the tests came back fine and after being gievn a drug for nerve pain began to recover (however it did take a couple of months).
Which brings me to now, the same symptoms have appeared and have now again convinced myself I have MS as sometimes the tests do not pick it up. I am totally obsessed with this, have no energy, feel totally weak my legs are burning and twitching and I just cannot drag myself out of it because the physical symptoms are always there. My GP has suggested it is a stress/anxiety problem so that's why I'm here, does anyone think that such horrible physical symptoms can be due to anxiety and why, also if they are how on earth do I get rid of it if it's constantly 'there' and ruining my life?
I feel like a bit of a freak as I thought that stress/anxiety was all in the head and could not create this! Where do I begin if this is anxiety esp when I have totally convinced myself that it is something more?
Thanks in advance,
a very frightened and confused
Solly