Hi there!
I'm here on behalf of my hubby and I'm sorry that this will be a little long winded! He has been having a number of symptoms of MS, which I'll list below, for the past 2 years (possibly longer) and he's only getting worse. His symptoms don't really ever go away, they hang around and get worse.
So he's always had headaches with at least one a fortnight (since I met him ten years ago)
He used to regularly get severe migraine with aura, aphasia and numbness - these aren't so regular anymore thankfully.
He is always achy and has pain in his neck or back most of the time.
He needs to maintain at least 3 workouts per week otherwise the aches get worse and he gets stiff through his whole body.
He goes through stages of being super tired and fatiuged for days at a time and then will be fine for weeks or months.
He went to the optometrist a year ago with vision issues in one eye and numbness in his face around his eye that came and went. Before the optometrist even examined him he asked if he had any tingling or numbness in his fingers or toes to which my husband said yes. The optom said he didn't want to be the bearer of bad news but said he saw this often in patients that went on to be diagnosed with MS.
So off to the dr hubby went. He didn't even suggest it could be ms. The Dr put him on a low histamine diet and ordered a CT scan. CT came back clear (though I've read lesions don't often show up on a CT) and the low histamine diet has done nothing (we've also tried a diet of low preservatives)
Since then the numb sensation around his eye has spread to that side of his head and further around his eye and its nearly always present.
The tingling in his fingers and toes has turned to a numbness that has spread all through his hands and up his forearms and up his legs from time to time as well.
And very recently he has had pain in his lower abdomen and nausea (he describes it as if "someone has kicked him in the boys" even though no one has) which has also resulted in the same numb sensation "down south" as well as some erectile dysfunction.
I'm just wondering if anyone has had similar symptoms to these - particularly the last one. I think he'll go back to the Dr and get the MRI but he's just such a "she'll be right" kind of guy despite the suffering I'm witnessing him go through! He has just accepted that this is life for him now. Like everyone I suppose, we just want to know what's going on. I think we'd both be somewhat relieved if he got an MS diagnosis as it would provide an answer to all of the things he's enduring (as well as knowing its not a dozen individual health issues). Plus that way we could learn to manage it and look ahead and prepare for the future (we have 3 small children).
I'd love to hear your thoughts. thanks for bearing with me! 😀
Georgie