Hi I have fibro and cfs but I have been numb down left side of body and face, I nearly fell the other day could lift leg higher enough sometime my ribs feel like there being crushed also get very itchy I just feel very strange any advice would help thank you
U think so, sorry ask to see neurologist, I think fibro us a form of ms. Numbness and itching is common in ms. Goid luck dint panic KR
Thanks for your reply I've got the doc Thursday
As him to refer you to neuro and MRI I will think of you Thursday. I've had a leg that dragged it got better. Things come and go.
hi, unfortunately there isn't a quick answer to the question 'do i have MS?' it's a notoriously tricky condition to diagnose. you mentiion fibro, do you mean Fibromyalgia? there's an overlap of symptoms with Fibromyalgia and MS, this could make it a little difficult to distinguish the possible causes of your symptoms. i hope you don't mind me doing this, but i posted before giving a description of the process of diagnosis, i kept a copy of it because i thought it might be useful info for someone else. as a side note, i'm not aware of fibromyalgia being a form of MS.
again, i hope you don't mind me re-posting, but here goes:
i have ms, i was diagnosed (abbreviated to dx) in 2004, the problem with pinning down an ms dx is the wildly varying experiences of each person with the condition, and how we report our experiences also varies a hell of a lot. our nervous systems are so complex, of course. generally, it's not just about the results of 1 mri that are used, but at least one more, at a later date, this is to see if there's progression over both physical space (lesion/s) AND time. there may or may not be a change, even then, which doesn't necessarily rule out ms, as even if it IS ms, it might not have been actively progressing between mri's, OR, if it's remitting, it could even have improved. you can see why so many of us have a long time to wait, to see if we have ms or not. it's also accepted practice to do a lumbar puncture to look for oligoclonic bands in our cerebrospinal fluid. a full examination will almost certainly be carried out by a neurologist, to test your reflexes, balance, response to stimulae (hot, cold, soft, sharp etc) and so forth.
i would always strongly advise anyone with ongoing health concerns, to keep a journal of experiences: symptoms (any and all) , dates when they start OR end, concerns, questions for medics, anything you think might relate to your health problems. take your journal with you when you go to appointments with any medics, and, if possible take someone with you, it's handy to have another person listening, as it's easy to miss things.
i hope this is helpful. x
Thankyou I went to doctors she said it could be a migraine even though I don't have a headache being numb down one side isn't a symptom of ms well that's what she said so been put on gabapentin for two daysides and wait to see rumatoligist on the 5th November xx