Marzipan
Member
- Joined
- Jun 29, 2011
- Messages
- 20
- Reason
- Learn about ALS
- Country
- US
- State
- TX
- City
- Houston
Hi. I stumbled upon your forum doing exactly what I shouldn't have been doing - searching the internet to diagnose my symptoms. I am a 42 year old female who started having symptoms I have never before. I was walking and all of a sudden I had weakness in my right leg like I couldn't make it work. Then the feeling traveled to my right arm. I felt I didn't have much control over them and they were numb. I couldn't even write properly. I immediately took two aspirins as I thought I was having a stroke or TIA. Once the normal feeling came back and the anxiety disappeared I felt normal. The whole thing lasted about 30 minutes. I went to a neurologist with stroke or tia in already in my mind. She ordered an MRI which I'm scheduled for on Friday. Since that episode, I have been having trouble speaking and the episodes are now happening every day for brief periods of time. I feel like when I'm speaking, I really have to form the words to make myself sound normal. My voice is weaker during these episodes. I have had no trouble swallowing but my mouth doesn't feel normal. My jaw seems "tight" and I have numbness/tingling now on both sides of my body. The neurologist tested my reflexes which were good. I'm just terrified that there is something terribly wrong with me. Does anything think I need to ask for an EMG in addition to the MRI? Do ALS lesions show up in an MRI? Again, intially I was thinking Stroke or MS but when I had the speech problems I immediately went to ALS. One thing the blood work showed up was that I was extremely deficient in Vitamin D. I thank you for your time.