ms and dizziness

[rebeccad]

Hi i feel all i ever do is obsess about having ms, having a particularly bad day today feel so tearful. Does anybody know with the balance issues associated with ms if you actually are off balance or just feel off balance. I feel off balance but can walk in a perfectly straight line and balance on 1 leg etc... My husband thinks i am honestly barking mad for keep trying but i just can't get it out of my head. I have been to the doctors 3 times in the space of about 6 weeks so i honestly cannot go back about this symptom. Please help i am very very concerned. :weep:

[wiskersonkittens]

Rebecca -- was your doctor very very concerned? We really need to learn to trust, especially our doctors. They know what to look for. I am trying, too, but it is hard, especially when I don't feel quite right. You did the right thing by going to the doctor. If your doctor isn't concerned, then I think you should have faith you are fine. If you are still uncertain, get a second opinion and if necessary a third, but after that, know you are fine. My mother and father both have/had MS. Think about MY luck here. Yet, after an MRI, I was clear of having it. Yay! The odds of you having it are slimmer than mine -- that is good news. Hugs, Wiskers ~

[rebeccad]

i know what you are saying but i havnt actually been about the dizziness as i really am sure he has had enough of me, i have been with every other symptom i have but now this dizziness has started and i cant help but worry over it, i feel so weak for feeling like this!

[ro44]

I understand how you feel. I have been feeling really strange and "off" in the head lately with odd dizzy feelings. Yesterday, I was usually the straight lines in my kitchen tile to see if I could walk a straight line. I could, and I also have been checking to see if I can balance on one leg.

[agent orange]

balancing on one leg is not an indication of whether you have M.S or not, I have tried all that too and I can walk in a straight line, i do it so much that I am so obesssed by it. I can balance on one leg but it is not easy to stay still and besides dizziness can be caused by very many things and mundane things at that too. I am worried by M.S so much and for so many years that I was referred to the specialist because the doctor told me that I did not have it, but that he would send me for my own piece of mind. Now I have symptoms of being off balance, dizziness, aching joints etc and when i have been checked out I have nothing wrong with me. The specialist said my symptoms were plausible and most symptoms probably do mimic other conditions, but in fact are nothing major, he could not find anything and the brain scan was clear. My default illness is M.S and I have not let it go at all and have lived with thinking I have this illness. My symptoms have not particularly changed much, my doctor says that they would change quite so. My thinking is that if we obsess over a particular thing then it is not suprising that we could mimic those symptoms. I have been diagnosed with undifferentiated somatoform disorder, this goes hand in hand with hypochondriasis and it means that under stress etc, a person with this condition will show to have medically unexplainable symptoms and that this condition is long term, but not organic; yet we with health anxiety are still at a risk of becoming ill like the rest of the population, we have to put strategies in place to cope, and that is not easy, especially if you have had somatizing thoughts for a long while.

[mockingbirdsing]

Hi there, I hope you manage to see this message. I just don't think you could have put your concerns better. I feel EXACTLY the same. I'm not sure what to tell you, I keep closing my eyes and touching my nose, walking in a straight line, standing on one leg, standing with my feet together eyes closed...i have s**t balance yet I can do all of these things (not without a wobble though!)

I keep having those waves of panic in my stomach, the 'what if's', what if I forget it and leave it, put it all down to anxiety and it turns out I have a fatal brain tumor? What if I'm dying? What if I'm suffering and I have to eventually say goodbye to my family and boyfriend and let them move on with their lives? It is breaking my heart but the more you obsess the worse things get. Don't be afraid to visit your doctor but this time tell him you have health anxiety and that your perception of logic and real symptoms is often clouded. Tell him you are genuinly frightened and that you would like some reassurance. I am sure your doctor will be helpful. Good luck xxxx


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