Hi guys,
I'm 22 and a master student currently writing my thesis. In November I moved away from home to start a job in the capital Two weeks after that I got a call for the job of my dreams and accepted without hesitating. One week after that, two days before a thesis deadline, I woke up with a weird feeling in my vision that I cannot describe. It was different. That feeling is since gone but my anxiety about it kept growing and growing. Now I'm dealing with separation anxiety (I had bad thoughts about my mother dying), anxiety about writing a proper thesis, anxiety about
leaving a job I just started and the anxiety
associated with the possibility of having MS.
Since then I've developed the feeling of pins and needles and burning sensations all over my body, muscle weakness and soreness.
I feel like I have to concentrate to walk
in a coordinate way, sometimes my right
foot grasps the floor, I have brain fog and
clumsiness and I feel like I have trouble thiking.
Along the way I decided to see an ophthalmologyst that found no problem with my eyes and two neuros. Both conducted neurological exams and found no evidence of ms but the first told me to get a brain mri that came up clear. Clear enough for her to say that no further investigation was needed but I'm not convinced. I also started seeing a psychologist that is 100% convinced that I have somatic symptom disorder. In truth, I can trace some hypochondriac episodes to a few years back. I've always been afraid of some terrible disease. Recently I travelled with my girlfriend and we walked an average of 15km a day for six days. Could it be perceived weakness? Could it be that the pins and needles are caused by anxiety? Could the brain fog be also caused by anxiety? Can I have ms with vision and brain fog symptoms that do not show in an mri scan? I think I'm going to do an spinalcord mri because I want to be 100% sure.What do you guys think? I'm so afraid.
I'm 22 and a master student currently writing my thesis. In November I moved away from home to start a job in the capital Two weeks after that I got a call for the job of my dreams and accepted without hesitating. One week after that, two days before a thesis deadline, I woke up with a weird feeling in my vision that I cannot describe. It was different. That feeling is since gone but my anxiety about it kept growing and growing. Now I'm dealing with separation anxiety (I had bad thoughts about my mother dying), anxiety about writing a proper thesis, anxiety about
leaving a job I just started and the anxiety
associated with the possibility of having MS.
Since then I've developed the feeling of pins and needles and burning sensations all over my body, muscle weakness and soreness.
I feel like I have to concentrate to walk
in a coordinate way, sometimes my right
foot grasps the floor, I have brain fog and
clumsiness and I feel like I have trouble thiking.
Along the way I decided to see an ophthalmologyst that found no problem with my eyes and two neuros. Both conducted neurological exams and found no evidence of ms but the first told me to get a brain mri that came up clear. Clear enough for her to say that no further investigation was needed but I'm not convinced. I also started seeing a psychologist that is 100% convinced that I have somatic symptom disorder. In truth, I can trace some hypochondriac episodes to a few years back. I've always been afraid of some terrible disease. Recently I travelled with my girlfriend and we walked an average of 15km a day for six days. Could it be perceived weakness? Could it be that the pins and needles are caused by anxiety? Could the brain fog be also caused by anxiety? Can I have ms with vision and brain fog symptoms that do not show in an mri scan? I think I'm going to do an spinalcord mri because I want to be 100% sure.What do you guys think? I'm so afraid.
