Do I have ms?!

Hello Eden and welcome.

Dealing with anxiety and panic attacks are horrible, I'm sorry you are experiencing them. I hope your Dr. has addressed this issue with you if not please seek the help of a Psychiatrist and/or a Psychotherapist. If your anxiety/panic attacks are controlled then it's possible the abnormal sensations you are having will go away.

There are many conditions, vitamin/mineral deficiencies and medications that can cause abnormal sensations such as the tingling you are experiencing. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome does cause numbness, tingling and pain in the hands. It can take time for a vitamin D deficiency to improve. Raising your D level can take months to (maybe) over a year. Blood work every 6 months to a year helps monitor if your D level is increasing. Some people need to take more D3 and some do fine at a lower dose.

Usually when someone has body wide symptoms it's not Multiple Sclerosis, that's just not how MS works. There is no symptom(s) that is unique to MS and no single test, by it's self, that can point to MS. MS is diagnosed based on medical history, neurological evaluation, testing and ruling out other conditions.

Hi Eden,

Welcome to the board. I'm sorry you are having such a rough time. Snoopy has given you some excellent advice. Please understand that anxiety and panic is a real disease. You need to treat that aggressively in every way possible.

With MS symptoms, they typically don't come and go. MS symptoms occur when your brain and or your spinal cord have been damaged. For me, my symptoms are every minute of everyday. For example, one day, I woke up to a sort of lopsided numbness in my feet. My right foot is more numb than my left. Since that developed, I have never had a single moment of normal sensation. It has been over 8 years now. The coming and going of your symptoms seem to point to something other than MS.

You could have Fibro. Anxiety can cause physical symptoms as well. Please ask any questions you may have. You are always welcome here. I hope you feel better real soon.

Do continue to work on that D3. I've been taking 4,000 IU for a long time and I can barely keep my D3 on the low end of normal. Low D3 can cause a lot of symptoms.

Have you tried yoga or mediation? Yoga is something I've just started. I'm just awful at it but I feel really good after. Regular exercise can really help.

Disease is caused by too many toxins in the body and not enough nutrition to heal. Try and avoid all toxic substances and get as much nutrition as you can. Vitamins and minerals are mostly in the fruits and vegetables so concentrate on eating them. Diet is very powerful in healing. When I first had my vitamin D level checked it was 18 ng/ml which is way low. The VA recommends the level between 30 to 90 ng/ml as a healthy level. Started taking 5000 IU of vitamin D3 to get my level up to 75 ng/ml. I did a lot of juicing to get my vitamin levels up. It is all about putting enough nutrition in your body to fight the toxins. This works for all disease.

http://www.naturalnews.com/027345_Vitamin_D_exposure_sun.html

Skyflyerjen,
Thank you. It's my own original mantra and it has served me well. I have the short version "NO LIMITS" on everything. Dog tags, t-shirts, notecards.

Some medications cause the symptoms you describe

Shelby