A new Diagnosis

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Hi

My name is Neely Schwartz and i live in Phoenix, Arizona and i am 26

years old, will be 27 in a few weeks. I am a PTR (X-ray technician

and Medical assistant by trade but i left the field in March after

working for a pulmonology office for a year with a very hight death

rate. I was diagnosed with tethered cord on Friday, nov 16. For the

last 2 years i have had unusual aches, pains, numbness and tingling

in different parts of the body,exspecially my head and legs, so much

so that i think i have had 7 or more doplers done on my legs looking

for clots, and mri's done on my head because of " migraines " ( or so

they thought). My doctor was begining to think i was a hypocondriac,

but lucky for me, she thought my pains were alittle to unusual even

for a hypochondriac so we started some unusula testing, starting with

a nerve conduction test, which came back normal. Well i was

discussing symptoms with my boyfriends ex-step fathers new girlfriend

and she suggested i ask my Doc to be tested for MS so i did, on

thursday.Since i had had an MRI of the head a few months before which

was normal ( i am now doubting that and have req to have it re-read)

we were gonna go to the next step of diagnosing MS which is an MI of

the lumbar spine. Durring the MRI the tech buzzed in and told me the

times, you know how they tell you how long each test will take, and

then he told me that he was gonna call in the radiologist to " check

the films " to see if they needed to do anything else, and i didnt

think anything of it, being that i was an X-ray tech, i had done the

same thing after and x-ray before i would bring the person back to

the room. What i thought was weird was they ended up taking 15 min

more of pics than they orig said. Well that nioght my docs office

called and wanted me to come in first thing in the morning but didnt

tell me why, but i figured something was wrong with the pics. After

ithought about it more, i should have figured that out when i was at

the imaging place. Anyway, she diagnosed me the next day. They are

going to send a place called Barrow's Neurological and application to

see if they will see me, but for now i know nothing. My doc had

never even heard of this till me, and she says it id a very rae

disease exspecially in adults, and the info on thge internet is

very limited. You see along with my weird symptoms, i have had back

pain for years, but almost 10 years ago i was in a VERY bad accidest

on the NY state parkway that i should have lived from, and i thought

all my back pain was from that and never gave it a second thought.

It has gotten worse recently, but i am very large breasted and

overweight so i didnt think anything of it again. I know nothing and

need lots of help and have lots of questions,and no one here cal help

me, so i am looking to you guys for some help, advice and comford, i

got your group name from someone named Eurico, who i located on

another posting and they have been helping me the last few days with

info, but it's not enough, i still have so many questions which is

why i turned to you guys Thank you for reading (listening), it feels

good to tell this to someone who wont look at me funny and think i am

nuts

-Neely