Hi,
I'm a 24 year old female. For the past 3 years or so I've had a mixture of off again on again weird neurological symptoms. Moderate tingling in my fingers, numbness in spots on my feet (feels like something is stuck to the sole of my foot but nothing is), sometimes patches of skin feel bruised but aren't. Frequent muscle twitches, and occasionally a vibrating feel in a muscle. Often my calves feel pretty tight or even sometimes a little asleep. Now a new symptom, when I brush my ankle, I feel a crawling sensation on the inside of my foot, and when I brush my outer calf, I feel a crawling sensation on my inner thigh! So weird!!
Two things that are constant are that my reflexes (knee jerk and others) are all "jumpy" - my startle reflex is also over the top! And my hands shake a bit - not intention tremor or resting tremor - more like when I extend them they shake for a few seconds and then stop.
I've been to the neurologist, got two 1.5 T MRIs of brain and C-spine with contrast. No lesions that they can see but the last MRI was a year ago and the symptoms continue.
I'm wondering what you all think - the Neuro seemed convinced last year that it's just stress and I need to chill out. Has anyone heard of stress actually causing these sorts of things? I've made a point of reducing my stress this year, but these things, especially the new thing - (brushing part of my leg triggers a crawling sensation somewhere else on my leg) seem like neurological symptoms right? Should I go back and bug the neurologist for an MRI this year or just wait till something more obvious comes up? Is it important in terms of treatment to keep looking for answers now or is it ok to wait till things become clearer?
Thanks,
Jesse
Post Edited (Jesse_382) : 1/26/2012 11:12:29 AM (GMT-7)