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Hello @tinatoren and welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. I am so sorry to read all of what you have been going through. To feel this way must be scary and when you don't feel like you are being taken seriously by your healthcare providers, that can only make things worse.

I have moved both of your posts into an existing discussion on this same topic, which you can find here:
- Strange neurological symptoms - myoclonic jerks: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/strange-neurological-symptoms/

Members such as @stevegrinstead @pollysparrow and @oakbourne may be able to come in and share their experience with you.

I want to start by asking if you've had any blood tests done to check, for example, your magnesium levels? Low magnesium can present as weakness, muscle cramps or twitching, or an abnormal heartbeat. There are some at home blood tests that may be available to you in Sweden in getting this done in hospital isn't an option.

Also, what have the doctors who have seen you recommended to you as next steps?

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Please forgive me. SS has caused not only damage to the cerebellum, but my entire central nervous system. Therefore I shake. So hard to type when you shake. My wife stayed with me for 2 years after the surgery. Then she abandoned me for a new man. She got $349 k from me. NC is no fault divorce state. So all assets are divided 50/50. She never contributed 50-%, but that’s what she got. A good deal for her. So figure, a severely handicapped man or $349k? She took the $. I know, I know, that sounds unbelievable, it’s true.

Thanks! I was wondering where my post went. I thought it was removed. No I asked docs for magnesium test and they don't do it so I tried finding it elsewhere but someone said it should be a special test rbc test but that's pretty impossible to find.
I'm trying to take magnesium tablets but I don't know how much to take safely. Also given the rapid onset of symptoms in like 2 days I keep thinking it's some inflammatory process or bad reaction to nexium. My ca levels, b12 etc are OK. I can't help seeing parallels with that vasculitis I forget what it was called that attacks the sinuses. This started with a horrible feeling behind my nose and a raw feeling in sinuses and when I lightly push on a spot at the very top of the bridge of my nose between my eyes it sets of a cascade of weird symptoms like tingling gums and preaussure in head etc. It really scares me it's like the bone is going soft. The didn't mention anything on mri but I don't know if they were looking. Should they have seen a tumor there on mri?