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26-09-09, 08:11
Hello, my name is Alex and for the last fewmonths i have been seriously worried. It started in July when playing cricket my heart started behaving very strangely, fluttering and beating ridiculously fast. Obvously i went to my GP and he booked me into Papworth hospital to have a full Echo, Stress Test and ECG. I should say tht the appointment there was only recently done, in August. You know how the NHS is! In between then i was really worried about it and was experiencing alot of palptations. But i talked myself round, because my GP was telling me there was nothing wrong with my heart.(He had done an ECG on me as well)
But since then i have been completley preoccupied with having MS, writing it down here it seems like a wierd link to make but my gran is currently in hospital with cancer and a friend at the cricket club has MS. What kicked this obsession were the twitches which started about 1 month ago. lttle ones all over my body, not big jerks. Obviously i googled them and up came MS, so that set me off. My worry about MS is still there now though, as i have been having other symptoms alongside the twitches. My left arm will seem shaky an stiff (maybe weak?) not all the time during the day, but it has been happening most days for the past week or so. I have also just had tingling in my feet and hands when i woke ths morning. I am totally freaking out! I went to the doctor about the twitches last week and he put it down to anxiety, but these other symptoms have startedup since then. I am now in spain on my year abroad as part of my degree, so access to my GP s difficult, and I just feel scared the whole time that i might be dying a long and painful death. Any advice would be really great, and im sorry for the long drawn out post!
Alex
But since then i have been completley preoccupied with having MS, writing it down here it seems like a wierd link to make but my gran is currently in hospital with cancer and a friend at the cricket club has MS. What kicked this obsession were the twitches which started about 1 month ago. lttle ones all over my body, not big jerks. Obviously i googled them and up came MS, so that set me off. My worry about MS is still there now though, as i have been having other symptoms alongside the twitches. My left arm will seem shaky an stiff (maybe weak?) not all the time during the day, but it has been happening most days for the past week or so. I have also just had tingling in my feet and hands when i woke ths morning. I am totally freaking out! I went to the doctor about the twitches last week and he put it down to anxiety, but these other symptoms have startedup since then. I am now in spain on my year abroad as part of my degree, so access to my GP s difficult, and I just feel scared the whole time that i might be dying a long and painful death. Any advice would be really great, and im sorry for the long drawn out post!
Alex