Hi, Everyone!
I've posted multiple times here because.. I have health anxiety.
My main symptoms that started this year are left-sided tingling (thigh/shin, fingers, arm, side of face), dizziness, heat intolerance, occasional swollen lymphs (that mean nothing, disregard) and high SED rate / CRP.
I've had an MRI of my brain (normal with a few white matter lesions consistent with migraine) and lumbar spine (normal), a CT scan of neck/chest (normal), x-ray of spine (normal), ultrasound of 2 lymphs (normal).
Within the past 3 weeks I noticed my 4th and 5th toes on my left foot have started to lose feeling. I then started to feel a sharp pain in my heel, just under my ankle on the outside, whenever I flexed my foot upward if my leg was straight out, or twisted it outward with my leg straight out.
It's a tearing, searing pain, like something is trying to burrow out of my foot.
I also noticed that if I touch where the pain is, I have zero sensation on that spot of my foot. I can do a pinprick test around it and feel it, but where the pain is on the inside, I can't feel anything on the outside.
My GP thinks it's a pinched nerve (especially since I feel it in my heel when she taps outside of my achilles) which makes sense, but with the left-sided tingling that's been going on, I'm a bit worried.
I don't have MS, the brain scan was clean. I don't have a spinal tumor, lumbar scan was clean.
She's sending me to an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in foot/ankle pain and said I could ask for a cortisol shot to see if it helps, and they might do an MRI of my foot.
My new worry - I have a growth / tumor somewhere that is compressing this nerve in my leg / foot, causing searing pain and skin numbness (completely numb, like anesthetic, in a spot a little bigger than a quarter below my outer ankle).
Or myeloma.
Or ALS.
Or MS and they missed something.
Guys. Why can't a pinched nerve just be a pinched nerve, in my world??