Another Possible Ms Question Posted: 02-06-06 11:22am
My symptoms started 8 years ago with mono
like symptoms. I had fever, swollen
glands, severe sore throat and fatigue.
Towards the end of this infection, I would
have neurologic symptoms such as severe
headaches. Mild weakness in my left hand
and leg, mild weakness in the left side of
my face, burning pains in my arms, light
headedness, and muscle spasms in my
thighs. Unlike mono, however, these
symptoms would not go away. I would have
relapses of the mono symptoms and the
neurological symptoms about every month
and they would last about 2 weeks. The
neurological symptoms would not occur
without the mono symptoms. Also, the
neurological symptoms would not last more
than a few hours each. Its like it
cycled between the various symptoms for 2
weeks. After a year and a half of this,
I finally had an mri with contrast and a
lp, both of which were negative for ms and
chronic meningitis. Fast forward to
2006, I had not had any symptoms since
2001. I recently had a baby and had a
recurrence of my symptoms from 8 years
ago, except the mono symptoms are very
mild and the neurological symptoms are
still present. However, they're the
exact ones I experienced 8 years before.
No new symptoms have appeared and they're
cycling between the same 7 or 8 symptoms
like before with none lasting more than a
few hours each. Does this sound like it
could be ms?
