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{Details inside} So... Where do I go from here?

Asked by RandomGirl (3362points) April 25th, 2013

The saga continues…
Read my past questions for the details I leave out here. I guess this question is mainly asking for advice from those amazing jellies who’ve seen my questions from the start.

I had an MRI three or four weeks ago, just to rule out the big scary (most likely) causes of the weird symptoms I was having: unexplained headaches, nausea, impaired hearing, major brain fog… The works.
The MRI came back clear – no aneurysms, hydrocephalus, or tumors. Yippee!

They referred me to a neurologist at a hospital in Minneapolis (an hour away from home), and sent me on my merry way, knowing it was nothing serious.

That was good enough until now. I was relieved to know it was nothing serious, and glad I could just stop analyzing every little thing. But now, I’m getting even more weird symptoms: Pain in my abdomen, muscle weakness, changes in my vision, and occasional lightheadedness.

So, here we go again… Do any jellies have any ideas? Anything you’ve experienced firsthand or heard about from friends or family? Anything you’ve read about? …Any bizarre stories from the 10 o’clock news years ago that are coming to mind now?

I know we only have a few official MDs here (and they don’t come around very often any more), but can anyone think of something I could research as a possibility? Does anyone have ideas what the neuro might think during my appointment next week? Is there anything serious that we haven’t checked out yet? Wouldn’t the MRI have caught anything amiss in my brain, even if it wasn’t what they were looking for?

These new symptoms are especially interesting because they’re just what the doctor asked about at my appointment last month, and none of them were happening then. When I said “no” to those questions, they (the regular doc had a med student working with him) looked puzzled, like they expected to see those symptoms. Now all of those symptoms are showing up. Two things are going through my head: 1) What would they have checked for if I were experiencing those symptoms? and 2) Is it all in my head? Now that everything organic has been ruled out, I’m kind of suspicious that maybe, just maybe, I’ve got some sort of weird psychosomatic thing going on here. The fact that everything I perceived the doctor to be “expecting” shows up 3 weeks after that appointment, just as I was getting back to my regular life, makes me really wonder.

P.S. Thank you for reading all that… You guys rock, and I’m glad I have a way to sift through all of this and figure out what’s important!

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