Help I'm only 17 and I don't know if I have fibro, ms, or anything else:(

Im only 17 so im extremely worried:( my whole life I've experienced stomach problems and heart palpitations, and I was recently diagnosed with IBS. But one day my feet started to tingle very easily every time I crossed them for only a few seconds. That happened for about a month when one night I woke up with my whole foot asleep and feeling rubbery. Then I started to get panicky. It happened to my arm a few night later and my hand a few days after that. I do experience fatigue and I get tired very easily and experience frequent headaches. And after all the tingling came muscle weakness, twitching and cramping that's not too intense but just annoying. I do have minor back problems and wake up in the mornig very stiff, im very sensitive to pain and if someones rough housing with me i get hurt SO easily. I've had ringing in my ears for about 2 weeks and jaw pain and dizziness and vision snow along with eye sensitivity to light. I get a lot of leg pain as well that's worse at night (my mother has RLS) and random wrist pain. Ive suffered with my hands and feet turning ICE COLD withe the slightest bit of a temp. drop for a few years now, they just get very cold super easy. I do have anxiety which of course worsens the symptoms but I know they are not all being caused by my anxiety. And I know fibro causes anxiety, ringing in ears, and IBS so I'm wondering if that's what it is... But I'm really scared about MS.

Btw I have had blood work that showed no vitamin deficiencies or thyroid problems, it all came back okay. I'm going to my fathers neurologist next week that he goes to for back pain.

Post Edited (HannahBanana511) : 10/9/2013 3:01:12 PM (GMT-6)

Alright thank you!!!!!:) where can I find that thread??

I also have alot of the symptoms you do. I am also young and a male. I am 18 now. I have clean physical, clean mri and clean EMG. I found alot of my symptoms are increasingly worse in heat. When you get the tingling(paresthesia feeling) you get it inside of your limb which is what I first got. Do you get tingling sensations upon your skin. Especially in hot showers or sunlight? Muslce twitches, frequent headaches, dizziness, muscle twitches, mental confusion, eye pain, cold hands and feet, sleeping troubles, peeing problems, back pain(spine tingles when i bend back) NOT NECK. fatigue. extreme sore and painful finger ache. percieved weakness in all my limbs at one point at end of august which i got rid of by taking a vitamin b12 1000 mcg,every do and still do, tingling inside limb when i put slight pressure on it, I also use to have the chest pain/heart palpitations. I took a PPI which is a stomach pill and my chest pains went 90% away but now that is gone I have to deal with these crazy and unexplained neurological problems. Also alot of doctors look at you crazy and treat you like crap. I also too am scared i have ms because my symptoms are identical to it.. but im hoping its fibro because i can live with this pain i just do not like uncertanty and also MS eventually make you bedbound. Thats why im scared of ms.

Have you both checked out the MS forum here at HealingWell? The people there could give you a much better idea about the symptoms of that disease...

Debbie

hey young ones

I get all the neurological symptoms you have described and I find it very very frustrating...there is a syndrome called Benign Fasciluation Syndrome, its harmless and I believe I have this, which explains a lot of my twitching, buzzing, stinging symptoms. Check it out, it can accompany Fibro and its a very common thing.

There is a website on this which explains all about it called all about BFS http://www.aboutbfs.com/

Just had an MRI myself and am waiting for the results. Lots of things can cause these symptoms, anxiety (especially about health) lack of sleep, caffeine, some drugs, diet, magnesium deficiency, lots of things.
Please don't worry about MS. For a start, you are both very young and MS usually begins later on (i believe) but yes agree with Acheybody, have a look on MS forum and im sure it will reassure you.

Hope this has helped a bit :o)