right rm and right leg feel heavy, maybe a bit weaker but can do everything with it. Intermittent; this episode seemed to wake me up out of my sleep last pm...Any ideas?
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so you are a 35 year old, that has had repetitive right sided problems only, and because of this you had an MRI of the brain and C spine with contrast, both of which wasnormal, correct. you must have weakness, because they sent you to PT correct, so what is the diagnosis?
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The weakness is intermittent in my right foot. At times it seams like I am pushing my rt. foot into the ground for stability. In fact the bottom of my foot sometimes hurst from twisting it to suppost myself. On exam they have only found my lower leg weak at times. PT helped to correct some postural things but it seams wierd that it comes on suddenly and affects both my arm and leg. I have also had a lot of bloodwork with no answers.
The flip flop will fell heavy to me
there are unusual disease like myasthenia gravis or a variant called Lambert Eaton syndrome. these are neuromuscular disorders, havethey checked your ach-antibodies?
is this painless weakness?
That i am not sure about... I would prob say yes b/c they took 14 vails of blood. Checking genes mutations, lyme, clotting factors and more
well if you can get the studies, I might be able to tell you about it, did they do an EMG on your leg or arm?
No
no emg? do you have pain?
I also just did a visual provacation test, but not sure of those results yet.
I do not have pain.
this visual provocation test, this is a vestibular test correct?
No, it was a test to check the optic nerve. another test to r/o MS
that is called a visual evoked potential test or visual evoked response test (VEP or VER)
have you ever had a loss of vision or change in color vision?
monocular loss?
No vision loss. I get a lot of floaters and the only vision prob. I have noticed is if I stare at a pattern or something like a blackboard for a while, when I look away I will continue to see teh image in a diff. color. Kind of like when you see sun spots after looking at the sun.
that is normal
never any imbalance (apart from the weakness) changes in language, transient numbness, problems with bowel or bladder?
would you consider an lumbar puncture?
No problems with bowel or bladder, language. I think I have had numbness on and off in different places throughout the years: face, leg,right great toe here or there. I do have vertigo and have had this for some time. They believe it is Cervico-genic. Not sure I want to go ahead with the lumbar puncture.
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Well you may need to if you want to have a diagnosis, maybe the VER's will be abnormal, but I will send you the McDonald criteria for MS, with normal imaging you have to have 2 or more documents episodes with improvement. here, I will send it to you, hang on
I have never gotten anything easy.. from the cervico-genic vertigo to dermatographism to this... no one can ever figure anything out!
http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/DiagnosticCriteria.html
please look at this, it outlines the criteria for MS, and i don't think you meet it at this time.
I would encourage you not to give up, but consider asking the neurologist to check for neuromuscular disorders like Myasthenia gravis, by checking your anti-ACH antibodies, and considering an EMG with repetitive stimulation to look at the neuromuscular junction
okay. Thanks... anything else? Some are now talking like its stress related although I can't imagine it only affects one side of my body? Seems wierd. I also don't consider my self to be stressed-infact I am now off work until August!
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