5 Months Into Symptom Journey

[smithylab]

I'm only 5 months into my symptom journey. I call it that because I have never been diagnosed with bfs, let alone anything else. I went to see the neurologist about 3 weeks after my symptoms began. I primarily went in with my fear of MS, because I had a lot of sensory issues at the time. While I was twitching at the time, it was very minimal and wasn't as big of an issue as it is now. I didn't even bring up my fear of als at the time, I only brought up MS to the neuro.While he did do a clinical exam, he never mentioned anything about any disease. Now that my symptoms are becoming increasingly worse as the days go by, I'm wondering if I need to make a trip to another Neuro, maybe and als specialist. I really don't want to do that because I am too afraid of hearing anything bad, I am not in the right mental state for that, having a 5 month old baby and all. I'm just having a lot of issues with my arm right now and it is really getting me down. The bone on the outside of my wrist feels really tender to to touch and the bone feels a lot bigger than on my other wrist. My arm is also a lot more twitchy and feels like I've been carrying around a lead pipe. Jay

 

[Gracer]

Holy God Jay why with the pain and swelling in the arm you are going to see ALS neuro?go and see rheumatologist first, then traumatologist (surgeon), those symptomes are pointing much more to inflammatory disease than to any neurology and with 5 month old baby it could be just simple plain trauma or plexitis or whatever else plus well known postlabor conditions... Holy God again, my dear do not waste time for fears, go and get pratical medical help.In three weeks you might not have any carpal syndrome seen yet by the way but in 3 month it could develop quite clearly. After pregnancy you are definitely low in Ca (you spent much of it for baby's bones), so your joints might suffer etc etc. lookf for horses not for unicorns please please.

 

[Fjordian]

Hi Jay, I don't think you saw a neuro too soon. As you know we both have very similar symptoms. I visited 2 different neuro's with 6 months between the first and second visit. Despite all my symptoms everything was okay and everything is okay and I'm thankful for that. Try to believe that your neuro should have noticed it if something was wrong with you. grtz, Fjordian (check your p.m.)