Posted 1/3/2015 8:26 PM (GMT 0)
I have been having numbness/tingling or pins and needles sensations in my hands for several months now. It started with just my hands but has now radiated up my arms and I have it in my feet, legs, and face as well. It isn't present 100% of the time but pretty frequently and it makes it extremely hard to fall asleep! I've also noticed loss of sensation in part of my face and weakness in my legs. The worst of all of it though is the major fatigue! I literally have a hard time just going grocery shopping, let alone working a full time job on top of that. I am only 23 and have never had issues like this before. I cannot make it through a day at work without pounding at least one energy drink (caffeine never used to effect me...now I fall asleep without it). I spend my weekends mostly in bed recovering from a full week of work. I work an office job so it's not even physically straining. I feel useless. I also have been having minor memory issues like forgetting words or replacing them with words that sound similar but mean something completely different. I have always been a word/grammar enthusiast so it's weird for me to not be able to articulate as I normally do. I know MS runs in my family. Does this sound like MS?
I had a brain MRI w/ and w/o contrast last week and I don't have the report back yet but I did get a copy of the images. I see some white spots on the images without contrast and then the images w/ contrast are lit up like a Christmas tree! There is so much white. Is that normal? I really don't know what normal vs abnormal MRIs look like. I am going crazy waiting to see my neurologist for the results.