Friday, February 15, 2008

Still

Sorry for the boring posts about my own health, but here's another.

Still don't know what's wrong with me. Both the EEG and MRI were good. My mom had me go to her doctor who thinks I might have a pinched nerve; I think there's too much going on for it to be a pinched nerve. He ordered another MRI, this time of my lower back (lumbar spine actually), which I had done yesterday and won't know the results until Monday. It hurt laying in there, it didn't make me dizzy like the one of my head though.

The neurologist I saw prescribed an anti-anxiety medicine that I've been taking since Monday. I haven't been taking it twice a day like he said be cause if I did I wouldn't be able to go to school, it makes me too sleepy. He really gave it to me to help with my heart rate being so high and to help the tremor in my arm, I think it's helped the tremor some, but not my heart rate. The tremor is only bad when my legs (and now my back and arms) are bothering me a lot, the tremor I can live with, it's the other that needs to be taken care of.

It started with strange pains in both legs and a warm feeling as if I had applied Icy Hot all over them combined with the feeling you get after a cramp in your legs just went away. Then add to that that when I sit down everything from my hips down would start to go numb (no tingling, just some loss of sensation), then it even started happening laying or standing. Now the numbness has gone up my back with some pain as well and the past two days my legs keep feeling like they're about to cramp but they never do. I just want to find out what's wrong so something can be done about it.

4 comments:

  1. Oh my, Reese. I hope you find out a diagnosis soon and get well on your way to recovery.

    I'll be praying for you. Keep us posted.

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  2. Hey Reese,

    Any health update? Hope all is well.

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  3. Well, I've been feeling a bit better, physically at least. But I think the problem is hiding, not gone, and I still get bad leg pains every once in a while.
    Thanks for asking.

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