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[MTBR]

It still doesn't make sense to me cause going through this is not easy, don't know why we would re-route the worry to something that makes us think we are going crazy.

It actually makes a lot of sense to me for similiar reasons to what six just said...she said:

it is easier to have a disease and let a "doctor take care of everything"

I would take that a couple of steps further in the case of those obsessing over MS or ALS. Think about it....those two diseases can COMPLETELY debilitate you so that EVERYONE ELSE has to take care of EVERYTHING. Not just the doctor....EVERYONE has to be responsible for your well being.

Man, I just had a HUGE lightbulb go off about why I may be doing this.

[vanilla1969]

Thanks sixpack, I always love your insight.

[el28]

sixpack you are right.i m going for a walk to calm down because my leg is so wick today.i hope that this will heps

[el28]

i was wlking for an hour.i forgot my leg problem.when i came back it started again.LOL if i had m.s i couldn t walk non stop for an hour right????

[sixpack]

i was wlking for an hour.i forgot my leg problem.when i came back it started again.LOL if i had m.s i couldn t walk non stop for an hour right????

right.

it is just like my headache that came back after I was volunteering at a dog rescue last year...   I posted that to you when most of the text was bolded.

[MTBR]

I was walking for an hour. I forgot my leg problem. When I came back it started again. LOL if I had m.s i couldn t walk non stop for an hour right????

 ....I know the feeling. I Ride a Mountain Bike about 12 miles a day, and when I went through my MS/ALS fear last month, my mom (who has had GAD ALL HER LIFE) was like...SERIOUSLY? You just rode 12 miles not even 5 hours ago...and now you have ALS?

[el28]

  all is in our mind.sometimes i m getting anxient because i ve read that in most m.s patients doctors at the begging told them that it is anxienty and nothing else.i m thinging that the same thing happens to me.if i wasn t ypo i wouldn t thing that the red sign i have now in my left hand could be lupus.everyday i have m.s fear and an other fear .yesterday was cancer today is lupus

[el28]

i spoke with an m.s patient and he told me that a brain mri its not enough and i have to do a spinal mri.i m so afraid again.i dont have insurance  and i cannot pay again 350 euros for an other mri.also he told me that doctors saying him that he has anxienty but he had m.s..please helppppppp

[ejmommy]

I could be wrong about this and maybe someone else would be more knowledgable. During the height of my MS scare I remember reading that they check brain and cervical spine for MS, but it would typically be in your brain if it was in your spine. Does that make sense?

On the note of that patient being told it was just anxiety and ended up having MS, was this after any testing was done as you have had? I doubt anxiety was misdiagnosed after the kind of testing you have had (MRI, clean neuro exam I assume).

[el28]

he told me that he went to 3 neyrologists and that from the exam on their office they cannot find out m.s and they told him it wa anxienty.i m trying to find how many possibilities are to have a clear brain mri and not clear spinal mri but i cannot find something.if i don t have an other mri i cannot calm down.

[el28]

i m having spinal mri in 4 days.please pray to be clear

[greend]

After everything you have written, my bet is that it will come back clear.  Try to enjoy the weekend!

[el28]

i hope so.i m so afraid of the results.i cannot calm down.i will know tuesday afternoon.

[el28]

i had the spinal mri and it s clear!!!!!!1i m so happy!!!!!!

[greend]

Great news! Now it is time to start dealing with your anxiety so that symptoms you might experience just by virtue of being alive, won't be so upsetting in the future.

[el28]

its time  to axcept that i m ypo!!!i have to deal with it and try to find a solution.good news i don t have m.s bad news i m YPO.lol

[greend]

Sorry, what is YPO?

[el28]

sorry non ypo...hypochondiac