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Experience/knowledge of MS?
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Hi all,
Does anybody on these boards have any experience/knowledge of MS?
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Does anybody on these boards have any experience/knowledge of MS?
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My GP seems to put everything down to depression/anxiety yet although I have suffered from depression previously I have never suffered from anxiety symptoms or any of the physical symptoms I have been experiencing.
I am intending to try and make an appointment to see a different GP this week but any imput of any knowledge of MS would still be appreciated.
I'm currently on Mirtazapine, however when I experienced the initial symptoms of memory loss/loss of coordination/sensation in my hands and fingers, I wasn't taking anything.
Another thing to bear in mind is that the symptoms for MS are also the symptoms of hundreds of other things and that is one of the major issues facing doctors trying to diagnose MS.
If you haven't been to see the doctor yet for these symptoms I'm sure it would put your mind at rest to go and have a chat. I seem to remember my uncle having various blood tests to diagnose the MS - but I could be wrong on that.
In the meantime maybe keep a diary of when the various symptoms are appearing - is there a specific trigger which leads to them starting? Then you can discuss these with your doctor.
Just after my uncle was diagnosed I was convinced that I had the illness too and could see my symptoms paralleling his, but it turned out to be something entirely none related.
Hope this helps some...
Hey betsy, once again thank you for your reply.
I ended up in hospital for a couple of nights back in September when my initial symptoms started but due to my history of depression they just put my symptoms down to anxiety. My GP tends to do the same but as I said previously I've never really suffered from anxiety.
The loss of memory really scared me and now I have what feels like constant twitching muscles (although when I say constant what I mean is everytime I seem to be at rest). If I wasn't anxious before then I certainly am now.
Muscle twitch is very common and as the poster above mentioned it can be brought on by a number of benign causes.
I may be wrong but yours sounds like a case of somatization which is "a tendency to experience and communicate somatic distress in response to psychosocial stress". The old phrase for it was psychosomatic. It doesn't infer that you are necessarily a trouble making hypochondriac but more realistically it means that once you have a minor symtom one goes and self diagnoses (on the internet most oftenly!) and then you go looking for more symptoms. This then makes you aware of all the little ticks and imperfections that are happening to you (and everyone else) all the time. This makes you more stressed and the cycle repeats by increasing thos normal ticks.
The only way to diagnose MS is via MRI scans which a GP won't agree to (because of cost) unless they STRONGLY suspect you have it. Or you are prepared to pay around £300-500 to have it done privately.
You didn't come across as dismissive at all; I appreciated your reply. At the end of the day I hope it is anxiety, for me there's a big difference in hearing from people with personal experience rather than a GP making assumptions without having sufficient evidence to base those assumptions on.