MS fear please read

[Nicole0814]

Hey guys! I go in waves with my health anxiety and the last week has been a little rough. First was worried about my headaches but last night I woke up from my sleep with my whole left leg from butt down completely numb - like you leg falling asleep feeling- but I was just laying on my back. I don’t remember a lot because, well I was asleep, but I rent it was bad and I couldn’t move my leg. I panicked this morning when I remembered and now I am freaking about MS. Of course I looked it up and I have so many symptoms. One that has been on my mind a lot lately, before the leg thing, is I am soooo tired and exhausted all the time. I mean, I can’t make my daughter a sandwich. I can. But it takes EVERYTHING in me to do small tasks. I feel like my fatigue/exhaustion has gotten worse over the last few months. Anyway, I’m now scared I have MS because of my leg. It was so weird because I was laying on my back and it was really bad. I remember trying to pick my leg up using my hand to move it. The more I think about it the more I get scared. Just looking for some advice. Hope you are all doing well!

 

[Loki83]

I gave myself a nervous breakdown two years ago when I thought I had a specific neurological disease. I read the symptoms and of course within the next few days I had every symptom. I woke up and my muscles would jerk and I was nauseous for a couple weeks and barely ate. My stomach hurt so bad that I drove myself to the ER, I woke up and had panic attacks. The point being is that your body can trick you into thinking you have anything you think you have by presenting symptoms. I currently am going through being obsessed about having colon cancer and I’m going through the same exhaustion and fatigue. I can barely get through the day at work. You just got to tell yourself the symptoms are real but the cause is the anxiety and there will be better days ahead. When I was at my bottom two years ago I thought this was my life and I’m going to feel like this forever, but I didn’t. I got myself up and moving and went outside with my kids and the more I got moving the less symptoms I felt.

 

[Strelets]

I gave myself a nervous breakdown two years ago when I thought I had a specific neurological disease. I read the symptoms and of course within the next few days I had every symptom. I woke up and my muscles would jerk and I was nauseous for a couple weeks and barely ate. My stomach hurt so bad that I drove myself to the ER, I woke up and had panic attacks. The point being is that your body can trick you into thinking you have anything you think you have by presenting symptoms. I currently am going through being obsessed about having colon cancer and I’m going through the same exhaustion and fatigue. I can barely get through the day at work. You just got to tell yourself the symptoms are real but the cause is the anxiety and there will be better days ahead. When I was at my bottom two years ago I thought this was my life and I’m going to feel like this forever, but I didn’t. I got myself up and moving and went outside with my kids and the more I got moving the less symptoms I felt.

Thank you so much for this. I'm going through something similar and I have a visit with my doctor later today because I seriously can't tell anymore if I have something or if it's just my body mimicking things.

 

[Loki83]

I didn’t believe it when I was in the middle of the breakdown . I thought there was no way anxiety could cause these severe symptoms because I’ve been anxious and had health anxiety since high school, but sure enough they did. Three years later and I obviously don’t have the disease I was convinced I had, anxiety is a powerful thing.

 

[Strelets]

I didn’t believe it when I was in the middle of the breakdown . I thought there was no way anxiety could cause these severe symptoms because I’ve been anxious and had health anxiety since high school, but sure enough they did. Three years later and I obviously don’t have the disease I was convinced I had, anxiety is a powerful thing.

I kind of know. I had the same thing (a massive hypochondria episode where my body mimicked different symptoms) when I was 16-17 and it lasted for ~5-6 months. Now since midway through November I'm on round #2 of it and its hard to tell myself that I'm probably okay.

 

[kammie72]

I'm in the middle of one where one side of my head feels tingly or numb. When i think scary thoughts the sensation increases. I don't know if i'm triggering flight or fight sensations or if there is a brain tumor. so afraid of a brain MRI or CT scan - afraid a tumor or lesions associated with MS will be found. have a call with my therapist in the morning. He will be sad to hear my exercises aren't working!

 

[Nicole0814]

I gave myself a nervous breakdown two years ago when I thought I had a specific neurological disease. I read the symptoms and of course within the next few days I had every symptom. I woke up and my muscles would jerk and I was nauseous for a couple weeks and barely ate. My stomach hurt so bad that I drove myself to the ER, I woke up and had panic attacks. The point being is that your body can trick you into thinking you have anything you think you have by presenting symptoms. I currently am going through being obsessed about having colon cancer and I’m going through the same exhaustion and fatigue. I can barely get through the day at work. You just got to tell yourself the symptoms are real but the cause is the anxiety and there will be better days ahead. When I was at my bottom two years ago I thought this was my life and I’m going to feel like this forever, but I didn’t. I got myself up and moving and went outside with my kids and the more I got moving the less symptoms I felt.

Thank you for taking the time to respond. I didn’t look up MS - I have been having symptoms and then found they are related to possible MS. I have had right eye twitching for a couple months now, dizziness/balance problems, random twitching, blurred vision, extreme fatigue. So when I saw that all that is symptoms of MS, that is when I started panicking. I have had several MRI and MRA of the brain and they were “normal” but I know it doesn’t always show on MRIs and I would need an MRI of spine. I don’t know….just so hard to know what is what at this point

 

[Izthewiz]

I just went thru something like this.
My face and scalp went numb and burned for about a few weeks consistently and felt crawling sensation all over my face and lips and my tongue would go numb.
My issues were my doctor believes caused by a pinched nerve as they got better.
If you have Ms they do not improve they only get worse until you're at wit's end.
Anxiety can do wierd things to the body the list is vast.

 

[Loki83]

Exactly, anxiety can give you every symptom in the book. So if you have symptoms caused by anxiety and you look up the symptoms you are having it’s going to lead you to some terrible disease on the internet. That’s what it does, all the terrible things pop up first in the search never the most common and reasonable things. Anxiety has caused every symptom in the book for me.

 

[Fraser]

It is amazing how finely tuned my body scanning can get, then how real those symptoms become. And I mean real.

 

[Phillies Phan]

Vast majority of MS plaques are in the brain and clearly seen on MRI. Highly, highly unlikely you’d have it in the spine.

 

[Scared1234]

Thank you for taking the time to respond. I didn’t look up MS - I have been having symptoms and then found they are related to possible MS. I have had right eye twitching for a couple months now, dizziness/balance problems, random twitching, blurred vision, extreme fatigue. So when I saw that all that is symptoms of MS, that is when I started panicking. I have had several MRI and MRA of the brain and they were “normal” but I know it doesn’t always show on MRIs and I would need an MRI of spine. I don’t know….just so hard to know what is what at this point

I was told that an MRI would detect MS lesions. My brain MRI was also of the upper spine too. They acted like that was pretty common to do both areas. My dr seemed pretty confident MS would have been detected on the scan.

 

[Nicole0814]

I was told that an MRI would detect MS lesions. My brain MRI was also of the upper spine too. They acted like that was pretty common to do both areas. My dr seemed pretty confident MS would have been detected on the scan.

Thank you for responding. They did the mri and mra due to headaches so I don’t know if it would have checked the spine