Another set of questions

Hi guys and gals!  I know that all of you probably get sick and tired of answering all of these questions from people like me who suddenly become a hypocondriact.  Please accept my apology in advance.  But lately I've been having some things going on with my body that scares the heck out of me and I'm sick and tired of having doctors tell me that it's all due to stress/anxiety.  In June I hurt my lower left back at work and was sent to the doctor to be seen.  He took x-rays and told me that I have a vertebrea that has slipped backwards in my L-5 vertebrea (very lower back), a bone spur on this vertebrea and degenerative disc disease.  I didn't think much about this and continued to work.  Well, September came and my sister got married.  I got REALLY drunk at the reception and ever since then I've had some things going on that everybody passes off as something minor.  A couple weeks after the wedding my left leg got a heavy feeling in it.  I noticed that if I hold my left index finger in certain positions it has a slight tremble to it.  I have also had muscle twitches all over my body.  I have had a buzzing sensation in the big toe of my left foot.  When I wake in the morning the 3rd and 4th toe on my left foot are somewhat numb.  I have seen 2 chiro's and my family doctor who say that all of these symptoms have to do with my back or have to do with anxiety.  My doctor says that with MS he expects to see some muscle weakness.  I really have no muscle weakness as I'm able to do everything I always have been, even playing soccer every week.  But latley I've been experiencing some new symptoms.  I've been dizzy off and on, and had some pressure in my head almost like sinus pressure.  I've also noticed that my eyes will hurt sometimes when I move them, especially when I close them and move them.  I've also noticed that just today I started to experience a buzzing sensation in my penis.  It comes on for about 10 mins or so, then is gone.  It did it from time to time today.  I have had what felt like muscle pain in the middle of my back, and a doctor( I hurt the right side of my back at work last week!) said I have dengenerative discs in the middle of my back also.  My wife, friends and doctors all think I'm going crazy when I tell them what's going on.  What do you people think?  I don't want a dx because I know you can't.  I'm just scared and looking for opinions before I go back to my doctors to get the run around again.  Also if it helps, I'm a 31 year old male.   I have alot of other questions but I'll save those for a later time.  Thanks to all the wonderful people who respond to this!!!!

thanks for the opinion gretchen. I am pretty much at my wits end with all of this. Another question I have is what kind symptoms can I expect to see with MS.? I mean what kind of persistent symptoms? The only thing I could get out of my doc was muscle weakness. But what kind of muscle weakness?

hey, i know the hell you are going through with all your symptoms..........im having a mri of my brain on monday and will know hopefully by thursday if there s any lesions on my brain............have ur gp frfer you to a nuero dr and get the tests necessary to rule it in or out.thats what im doing because the stress is a bigger killer then the disease.......hope this helps........

The theory is MS is auto-immune. It's a theory......no one knows for sure. MS is very poorly understood. There is not one test that indicates whether or not someone has MS. It is a diagnosis of exclusion. All other things must be ruled out. Some feel that MS can begin with a trigger. I personally can't recall a trigger for my own MS. People who mention tiggers usually recall things like illness or injury. I have head things like mono or a car accident.

My blood work was all normal. It indicated nothing out of the ordinary. MS is not a disease that shows up on an ANA test. Normal blood work is one of the indicators that can rule out other possible causes for MS symptoms.

Have you shared your concerns with a doctor?