catpilot90
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Hello there. I don't know if this is the right section or the other (general) one. Please excuse the extension of the post!It's so nice to finally be able to post here because for the past few days I've reading many of the posts of this forum. My story? Here it goes: About two weeks ago all of a sudden (or so I thought) I started feeling what I initially thought were some vibration on my testicles. About 3-4 years ago and in an episode that lasted for about 2-3 seconds I sensed the same vibration and because it only lasted said 2-3 seconds and never come back in about 4 or 5 months (2 episodes of 2-3 seconds per year) I never paid attention and just thought that there was some kind of vibration where I was seated. Why should I matter if the that happened only for 2 seconds two-three times per year? Anyway, as I was telling you, two weeks ago I felt the same sensation but stronger and it never stopped! Everything was fine with me, no pain whatsoever and it was normal same-as-everyday-me apart from that vibration-buzzing feeling in my "testicles". I googled "vibration in testicles" and found some relief reading about how frequent this was to other people of all ages from 15 yo to 55-65 yo. One night per a suggestion from a post I read I tried having a hot-water-massage in the testicles/groin are and the vibration were gone. I was so happy!...just for like 8 minutes and then the vibration resumes. The more days passed with this vibration/buzzing the more I started reading and reading more material and also realized that the vibrations weren't actually in the testicles but behind them including *beep* and basically the pelvic area. I googled vibration in groin - pelvic area and to my surprise the results were so many from both men and women. Most all of them describing the exactly same sensation and no answer or conclusion. As many of them also reported, whenever I walked the vibrations were gone, I basically only felt it when seating.Then to my disgrace I read some one post something like: "What this vibration could be? I'm afraid of MS". As I never heard the term of MS I googled it and then, as you can imagine, I entered in deep panic as I kept read about MS, the symptoms and such. I was convinced that I had MS.Now onto week two of the same vibrations and with MS symptoms in my mind just as I thought the vibrations in the pelvic / groin area were gone I started feeling a terrible cramp in my right foot. I thought of numbness and got terrified even though I could still perfectly "feel" my leg and walk/run/jump using my leg. The cramp or stiffness (I don't know how to describe it but mostly like a cramp) were there and I only found a small comfort or relieve in that I could still use my leg as every day. When the cramp in my leg were gone then I suddenly felt the vibration now back in the groin / pelvic area and when they weren't there or in the leg I felt a pain/inside inflammation/headache? in my face and sometimes some twitching there, mostly on the right side, sometimes above, sometimes near the mouth. Some mornings I would wake up feeling perfectly, no pain, no cramps, no sensible vibrations and then 10 minutes after I would start sensing the same things I have told you. As I read some great articles on yahoo about "BFS anxiety or ALS" I read about this TWITCHING and noticed that I actually have this visible twitching in my affected leg, basically on the calf. These twitching are also visible to my wife and they come every 3-4 seconds alongside the same feeling of INSIDE NOT VISIBLE VIBRATION going through all the leg to the feet and back. Like a constant traffic of something (like fluids or if my leg and pelvic / groin were a highway with cars passing non-stop)As I read that MS causes fatigue in most of the cases and that hot/humid weather affects and can start the effects of MS as I live in the tropics (Costa Rica) last weekend at noon with temperatures of 82-83 degrees I went jogging with my wife for about 4 kilometers non-stop. The sun was burning and I was sweating like an open faucet and I never felt no blurry vision, fatigue, numbness, dizziness or the like. I did this for two straight days and nothing happened...but the vibrations were still there as well as the cramp/twitching in my leg. The cramps were not constant. Sometimes my leg is perfectly normal and then after some minutes or in some cases after some hours the cramp return. Sometimes this vibrations and some electricity feeling goes to one hand, to another, then the other leg but just for a few seconds and then it goes back to the usual places: right leg or pelvic / groin or then some pain/inflammation/headache feeling and some occasional twitching in my face.Reading ABOUTBFS.COM has been of GREAT RELIEF for me. I have never thought of ALS because it's such a perfect explanation that by now I would have totally lost any movement on my right leg and other parts but the FEAR that is torturing and almost "killing me" in fear, anxiety and stress is the fear of MS.Suddenly I have been analyzing some things in my body and try to match/umatch it with MS symptoms. Since when I was a child I have had strabismus/lazy eyes and even though they did a surgery when I was 6, my lazy eye kept there since then (I'm 38 yo) and since I remember sometimes I see double but then my eye instantly corrects it. It happens sometimes when I use my glasses (I have myopia) and when focusing from a distance an object, like when watching a big tv from a distance. All these years I have always have this double vision-2 seconds-episodes and have learn to live with it. The same I could say about my frequent urination that I have had since many years ago. Sure if I wanted to with some effort I could say "you are not going to the bathroom" but never did it because there is always a bathroom near. This is not new, it's been always me.But now I am in fear that what if this double vision (even though I have a lazy eye and had strabismus since being a child) and frequent urination I have had for years and years are symptoms or early signs of MS? One big part of me tells me it can't be MS because as I have had this two characteristics since long many years ago something more would have shown, right? As I told you, thankfully, I have never had blurry vision (well obviously MYOPIA makes blurry the things that are far when I dont' wear my glasses BUT not the things that are near because those I can saw perfectly), I have never had any numbness (sometimes I have woke up with one arm totally in numbness but then instantly I move it and the numbness go away instantly and my wife had relieved me telling me this happens to everybody sometimes depending on how you sleep that night (e.g. with all the body against the arm), I have never felt fatigue even though I have been at very hot temperatures doing exercises and thankfully never had any problems walking-running or using my hands, but one of my FEARS and that's why I don't know if I have actually BFS or not, is that what came FIRST were the pelvic-groin vibrations-buzziness and then the twitching in the legs not the twitching first. Could it be that these vibrations/buzziness are signs of actual MS and then the twitching in the legs signs of BFS because of anxiety of the possible of having MS because of the inside vibrations/buziness. Prior to the first day of these vibrations (I'm onto my third week) I was very anxious about a good thing but nevertheless anxious. That's the only possible correlation I could think of.As of now, the vibrations in the pelvic area are almost gone (almost) and the twitching in the leg is still there. Sometimes it comes and goes. When I move no vibrations are felt but the inflammation/headache like sensation in my head is still there sometimes (right now no thankfully) and then it goes and then it comes back. Really, please forgive how long is this post but I am at lost, can't have a normal life just thinking. I even did some test turning both of eyes in all direction and towards the nose and I could (haha). I'm going mad. THANK YOU!