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dolly linvil · 07-22-2003, 10:06 PM

I'm not very familiar on how to do this. This is my chapter 1. My symptoms started in November. I have/had: fatigue, dizziness, tingling in my face, right arm & leg, vision problems (floaters, black spots, blurred). Had an MRI to check possible clogged sinus, turned out OK. Equilibrium, hearing, vision, thyroid all OK. Spent 6 days sleeping except for about 2 hrs. each day when son woke me up to eat. The only thing that is not affected is my appetite. Symptoms quit for about 4 to 5 weeks (except for vision) then returned. This with topomax (prescribed by neurologist for seizures/migraines). Symptoms back when I went on vacation. At first I thought it was just the excitement...then when returned home thought it was from being tired because of the travel. Let's add leg tingling now in both legs down to the toes (feels like when your leg falls asleep and is waking up). Something else I forgot to mention, problems getting my point across, can't find the correct words or names of people. Does any of this sound familiar?

jltk · 07-25-2003, 10:04 PM

Hello,

All of those sound very familiar to me. I was diagnosed with MS 9 Yrs ago. You did not mention if u have seen a doctor about this. Please do and make sur ehe orders the appropriate tests. Good luck Kathy

dolly linvil · 07-27-2003, 01:25 AM

Thanks for replying. I have an appt. at a diagnostic clinic on Monday. I saw my regular doctor about two weeks ago because I now have a bakers cyst that will need to be removed (more problems that my co-workers think are imaginary)he thought it was a good idea. While I was there he asked me if the first ear,nose,throat doctor didn't think the fact that I had an empty sella (where the pituitary gland is) was maybe causing my problems. Well I really didn't give it much thought until Friday night so I did some research. Well, guess what? There is something called "Empy Sella Syndrome". The symptoms that some people who have been diagnosed with ESS are:vision problems,fatigue,headaches. We'll see what the new doc say's. This one will be #6.