Hey Everyone
I wanted to see if anyone had opinions as to if this could be MS. I guess i can say my symptoms started a long time ago. I’m not 38 year old male. I had back problems since 22, i have dizziness issues prob for 10 years that has been getting worse. I was treated for a really bad bout of vertigo in June of 2021. This started my downward spiral into the rabbit hole. Since this i had bad balance issues issues on the right side, felt like i was walking sideways. I also get prob once every month maybe few times more these optical migraines i think it’s called. Where one eye gets really blurry and i can’t focus. It last from few mins to maybe 10 mins then goes away. This has been going on for maybe 2 years. What really got me worried was since Feb i notice speech issues. Like i can’t say words correctly, and mumble a lot now. I saw the neurologist right after this. He did a ton of test bc i googled and it said Als or ms. So obviously i freaked out. He did mri or neck and brain, emg/ncv, ssep, blood work and basic in office neuro exam. My mri show cervical spondolytic myelopathy and cervical stenosis. It has one little lesion bc they said it’s not an ms lesion and it’s from the csm. My brain read this “ * Compared to MRI of the brain dated 6/17/2021, stable exam. Scattered foci of
increased T2/FLAIR signal within the bifrontal subcortical white matter.
Etiology is nonspecific, could relate to sequelae of vascular headache syndrome,
absent other cause. No definite new lesions in space or time”. I had an mri a year earlier when i had the vertigo as well.
My emg was clean, ncv showed carpal tunnel in right hand and siatica in left leg. Ssep was clean as well. He ruled out als and ms. I still couldn’t stop googling, he told me this was anxiety driven, i did see a pysch who said i have general anxiety and health anxiety disorder. The speech is still here year later each day it’s all i think about. People tell me they notice nothing at all but i get tools “ what did you say alot”. I asked my neuro to repeat the emg again in Nov bc i was convinced it’s als. Again was clean. So my question is, does this sound like ms? I can say my constant symptoms are speech issues, mild i guess, pain in neck and dizziness. Anxiety as well
Any input would help. He said i can repeat mri again in spring if i need peace of mind