Hi All,
This is kind of long but I could really use some input.
I'm 40 yo female w/T curve in high 40's and L curve in mid 50's. No surgery as of yet. Last fall I had several strange, non-specific symptoms as follows: Difficulty clearing food from my esophagus, feelings of tightness in my chest - especially around eating, sharp chest pains (esophageal), burping after meals. Had a whole battery of blood, cardiac and GI tests and all came back normal. Those symptoms slowly resolved themselves. Then I soon developed slight dizziness plus tingling and weakness in all 4 extremities that even travelled to my face and scalp at times. Neurologist ordered more tests to rule out various neurological and/or muscular disorders. Again, all normal. His diagnosis was muscle spasms which he said got worse due to anxiety (I was convinced I had MS.) and prescribed xanax to relax the muscle spasms and calm me down. As soon as the symptoms went away. I stopped the xanax and was symptom free for 2 mos. This past week I've had a sudden onset of the same GI stuff (burping, sour stomache) and also a slight reappearance of the weakness as well. I also had a few days of severe malaise which has passed but the GI stuff remains. Of course the spasms seem worse in my neck and mid-back too.
Does this make sense to anyone? Has anyone heard of these symptoms being related to scoliosis and /or mus. spasms?
I can understand the tingling but the GI stuff occuring at the same time is such an mystery. I don't want to have anymore tests right now. I've had so many and I get the impression the docs all kind of think I'm a bit wacky.
Any feedback would be great. Thanks, Nora
This is kind of long but I could really use some input.
I'm 40 yo female w/T curve in high 40's and L curve in mid 50's. No surgery as of yet. Last fall I had several strange, non-specific symptoms as follows: Difficulty clearing food from my esophagus, feelings of tightness in my chest - especially around eating, sharp chest pains (esophageal), burping after meals. Had a whole battery of blood, cardiac and GI tests and all came back normal. Those symptoms slowly resolved themselves. Then I soon developed slight dizziness plus tingling and weakness in all 4 extremities that even travelled to my face and scalp at times. Neurologist ordered more tests to rule out various neurological and/or muscular disorders. Again, all normal. His diagnosis was muscle spasms which he said got worse due to anxiety (I was convinced I had MS.) and prescribed xanax to relax the muscle spasms and calm me down. As soon as the symptoms went away. I stopped the xanax and was symptom free for 2 mos. This past week I've had a sudden onset of the same GI stuff (burping, sour stomache) and also a slight reappearance of the weakness as well. I also had a few days of severe malaise which has passed but the GI stuff remains. Of course the spasms seem worse in my neck and mid-back too.
Does this make sense to anyone? Has anyone heard of these symptoms being related to scoliosis and /or mus. spasms?
I can understand the tingling but the GI stuff occuring at the same time is such an mystery. I don't want to have anymore tests right now. I've had so many and I get the impression the docs all kind of think I'm a bit wacky.
Any feedback would be great. Thanks, Nora
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