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FRIDAY MORNING I WOKE UP WITH MY SOLES OF MY FEET AND PERI NUMB. LIKE WHEN A DENTIST NUMB YOUR GUMS. AS THE DAY PROGRESS MY RECTUM AND INSIDES OF BOTH LEGS BECAME NUMB FROM GROINS TO FEET. SATURDAY MY ENTIRE LEGS AND UP TO MID BUTTOCKS WAS NUMB. AS THE DAY PROGRESSED MY LEGS FELT HEAVY LIKE I HAD ANKLE WEIGHTS ON. SUNDAY STILL NUMB AND HEAVY WITH PINS AND NEEDLES IN BOTH FEET TO MID CALF, PALMS OF HANDS AND LT SIDE OF MY FACE NUMB. WENT TO ER. ALL LABS AND CT SCAN OF HEAD NORMAL. BP WAS 178/110 P 109. MY NORMAL 140/90 WHEN NEED PHLEB DT HEMOCHROMATOSIS AND 130/80 AFTER PHLEBS. I WAS SENT HOME AND TOLD TO FOLLOW UP WITH PRIMARY TO GET B12 DRAWN AND GET BP UNDER CONTROL. WHEN I CALLED PRIMARY, I WAS INSTRUCTED TO GO BACK TO ER. HE WAS CONCERNED OF SLOW BLEED AND SAID STROKE MAY NOT HAVE SHOWN UP THE DAY BEFORE. WENT BACK TO ER MON. NUMBNESS HAD PROGRESSED TO WAIST. PINS AND NEEDLES PROGRESSED TO KNEES. ALSO HAD HEADACHE LT SIDE OF HEAD. ER DR DIDN'T SEEM HAPPY TO SEE ME BACK IN ER AND EXPLAINED NUMBNESS ON BOTH SIDES OF BODY MEANT THERE HAD TO BE 2 STROKES HAPPENING AT THE SAME TIME AND THAT WAS VERY UNLIKELY. THEY DREW B12 WHICH WAS IN NORMAL RANGE AND DID MRI OF HEAD AND SPINE. AGAIN NO STROKE. NO MS. DID HAVE BULGING DISC AT T5 AND S1. THEY DID NOT THINK THIS COULD BE CAUSING ALL THE NUMBNESS. I AGREED AS I HAVE HAD NORMAL EVERY DAY PAIN IN THESE AREAS AS A RESULT OF A CAR WRECK 20 YEARS AGO. BECAUSE I HAD A HEADACHE THEY SUGGESTED I HAD AN ATYPICAL MIGRANE AND ASSURED ME IT WOULD GO WAY IN A COUPLE DAYS. YESTERDAY MY ARMS AND RT SIDE OF FACE NOW NUMB. TODAY ENTIRE BODY NUMB PINS AND NEEDLES UP TO BUTTOCKS AND IN PERI AREA. I HAVE A METALIC TASTE IN MY MOUTH. MY NORMAL PAIN HAD DISAPPEARED ON FRIDAY HAS NOW RETURNED. MY LOWERS LEGS ALSO ACHE LIKE SORE MUSCLE. CAN'T GET INTO MY PRIMARY TIL TUES. NUEROLOGIST I WAS REFERRED TO STILL HAS TO REVIEW MY RECORDS BEFORE I CAN MAKE AN APPT. RECEPTIONIST ASSURES ME SHE WILL CALL WITH APPT TIME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. ALSO SAYS IT WILL BE END OF AUGUST OR SEPT BEFORE I CAN GET IN. WITH CHANGES EVERYDAY I DON'T KNOW THAT I CAN GO TIL THEN. I CERTAINLY CAN'T AFFORD TO GO TO ER EVERY DAY. I'M SCARED WHAT COULD IT BE? WHAT SHOULD I DO?
Sun, 19 Jul 2015
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