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<blockquote data-quote="flutterbee" data-source="post: 115622"><p>Actually, Loth, that's what's so sad. No tests. None.</p><p></p><p>I tell the doctor I'm having tingling in my foot and vertigo and they say, 'That's strange.' I tell the doctor I can barely climb the stairs and they say, 'You're just going to have to learn to deal with it.' I tell them I'm having incredible pain and burning in my hip and lower back that makes it hard to stand let alone walk, doctor moves my leg and says, 'Bursitis' and does nothing. I tell them I can't remember anything and get lost in my own neighborhood and doctor says it's stress. I told the neurologist that 2 weeks after my second heart cath, I had very disconcerting symptoms - body felt like lead, could barely walk (felt like I was walking through molasses), couldn't focus, words coming out in the wrong order and couldn't fix it - he said, 'I don't know what to make of that.'</p><p></p><p>Other than blood work I haven't had a single solitary test until I had the heart attack. Then they stopped at that. It wasn't until I got my new doctor that anything is being looked into.</p><p></p><p>I'm waiting for the rheumy appointment. If they don't determine anything, I'm pushing for a neck and spine MRI (WITH contrast as the brain MRI was with-o contrast) and a spinal tap. If it's not rheumatic causing secondary neuropathy, then we need to look into MS and Lyme.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flutterbee, post: 115622"] Actually, Loth, that's what's so sad. No tests. None. I tell the doctor I'm having tingling in my foot and vertigo and they say, 'That's strange.' I tell the doctor I can barely climb the stairs and they say, 'You're just going to have to learn to deal with it.' I tell them I'm having incredible pain and burning in my hip and lower back that makes it hard to stand let alone walk, doctor moves my leg and says, 'Bursitis' and does nothing. I tell them I can't remember anything and get lost in my own neighborhood and doctor says it's stress. I told the neurologist that 2 weeks after my second heart cath, I had very disconcerting symptoms - body felt like lead, could barely walk (felt like I was walking through molasses), couldn't focus, words coming out in the wrong order and couldn't fix it - he said, 'I don't know what to make of that.' Other than blood work I haven't had a single solitary test until I had the heart attack. Then they stopped at that. It wasn't until I got my new doctor that anything is being looked into. I'm waiting for the rheumy appointment. If they don't determine anything, I'm pushing for a neck and spine MRI (WITH contrast as the brain MRI was with-o contrast) and a spinal tap. If it's not rheumatic causing secondary neuropathy, then we need to look into MS and Lyme. [/QUOTE]
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