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I've got this health question, I hope some one can help. I'm sick of s and having x-rays and?
cat scans. I can't have MRI because I have a stimulator in my chest. For months now my legs have been numb with thingling and I get weird sensations when touched by certain things such as hot or cold water. My legs are weak and it's worse in my left leg that sort of just hangs there, floppy. This has spread up to my hips and stomach. My cardologist thinks I need to be tested for MS so he set me back to a different doctor. The thing is I have no pain at all in these areas. I understood MS there would be some pain but I don't have any. Please if anyone has an answers or suggestions please help. I'm raising two teenage girls and taking care of my mother on my own. I need to get help faster. Please
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- VoelvenLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
Multiple sclerosis doesn't need to be associated with pain. The most pain I've had was when half my face went partially numb and the pins and needles were very uncomfortable when I turned over on the affected side in my sleep. Otherwise, the only pain I have related to MS are from the medication side-effects, not the disease itself.
It could sound as if you have an MS drop-foot, but there are of course a number of other diseases that can mimic MS, hence the reason why an MS diagnosis usually starts out by eliminating all other possible causes for the symptoms.
From what you've written here, I would suggest that you see a neurologist. If you have relapsing-remitting MS there are disease modifying drugs that can be used to slow the progress of the disease. If it is not MS, then at least you should be able to get a bit more peace of mind.
All the very best to you.
Source(s): Diagnosed with MS in 2003. - Anonymous8 years ago
For your matter the best advice you can get is from medics.
If you think it's MS, or want to rule it out, you tell them you want to get tested for it.
if you think it's something else but are you even sure you have any kind of symptoms for that you go ahead and ask them to test it.
But (speaking as someone without any medical education) i think something is blocking the blood flow in your leg.
Tell that to your doctor, he'll know what to do about it.
- 8 years ago
(sorry for my English)
I don't know much about the subject but nobody reply so I'll try to explain MS to you. If you're talking about mitral stenosis, symptoms are dyspnea on exertion, orthopnea and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea, palpitations, chest pain, hemoptysis and thromboembolism in later stages. If you don't suffer these symptoms, you're not affected by this disease. If you really doubt, follow the suggestions of your cardiologist.