Hello everyone,
I am have not been officialy Dx'ed with MS. it pretty much all started this past summer. I had some pins and needles sensation in my butt and then it slowly travelled down through the legs until there was no feeling hardly at all. I had a hard time moving my legs but was stil able to walk.....slowly. Then complete urinary retention. I let it go way too long (1800 cc too long) and had to have a catheter put in for several weeks. I get terrible pain in my knees and hips, mostly at night. I had a couple of confusion, demensia?? moments. I saw the Neurologist a couple of days after beeing in the Hospital getting the catheter put in. He did a few tests there Potentials, EMG. and then a lumbar/thorasic MRI and then a brain MRI a couple weeks after that. It showed that there are three conciderably large lesions on my spine, with a compressed disk at the L4 and L5 vertebrae. And the brain showed five smaller lesions on the brain.
My Question is....... Could a compressed disk cause all of these symptoms? The lesions could be caused by inflamation? Did anyone else have similar symptoms?
I am going to be seeing my neurologist in Jan and he wants me to repeat MRI's. He is suspecting MS but I am hoping it is the compressed disk..Hmmm???What to think, the anxiety is killing me. Thank you so much for reading this ans any infut from you would be greatly appreciated...
Shelly