Well I saw my doctor today. Good news, it is not the bike. Bad news, as soon as the nurse gets approval from my insurance, I need to go in for a contrast MRI (he gave me a script for valium-just for that day). He is looking for tumors or M.S.I am doing my best to be upbeat and positive. At least it is not the bike.
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09-05-2006, 11:01 AM #1
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Update on Numbness
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09-05-2006, 11:05 AM #2
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Well, do stay positive. Dr.'s tend to go overboard with their statements... so they cover their ***@s on everything.
I am sure it will work out just fine.
Good luck and please keep us posted."Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather, to skid in broadside thoroughly used-up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: WOW WHAT A RIDE!!!!"
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09-05-2006, 11:15 AM #3
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Thank you. At least now I can resume riding.
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09-05-2006, 11:17 AM #4
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Well, at least you can resume biking.
Be sure to keep a positive attitude and everything will work out.
Keep us posted!!!
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09-05-2006, 11:35 AM #5
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A friend of mine was "diagnosed" with MS even though it didn't show up on any tests. She had numbness in her wrists (wasn't a cyclist). The MS diagnosis was because of symptoms, and the fact that MS evidently doesn't always show up right away on the tests. (This has been a few years so if I get something wrong, it's me, not what actually happened at the time.)
Finally after months of this she went to a neurologist (perhaps a different one?) and during the course of his examination he asked her what she did for a living (writer) and then asked her to go to his desk and sit down the way she sits at her desk.
She sat down and typed on her keyboard.
He kept pressing, asking different questions, until he got to -- "Do you always type or do you sometimes have to sit and think?"
She laughed because there's more sitting and thinking than there is typing for most of us. And she showed him how she sat and thought....
She rested the underside of her wrists on the edge of the desk.
Which was the source of her numbness. They checked for nerve damage, etc. and luckily she stopped doing it before doing any real damage.
But I just wanted to point out that in her case, a diagnosis of MS turned into a diagnosis of using her wrists wrong.
Fingers crossed for you!
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09-05-2006, 06:32 PM #6
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I'm glad you went to the doc and it's being checked.
The valium was a huge help to me when I had my MRI with and without contrast. That and I brought my own CD of music for them to play for me.
Keeping my fingers crossed for you.
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