Currently being worked up to rule out Myasthenia Graves vs. SPS.

Posted by Nemo1 @nemo1, Apr 4, 2023

What if I’m seronegative. That would put me back at square one. But she did prescribe me Baclofen.

I’m waiting for labs to come in that look for MG and SPS. I could not believe it when she mentioned it. I don’t know which one is worse. Right now I’m trying to get hold of an old CT that showed enlarged thymus and an EMG 1-2 years old. She is doing another EMG this Friday. She is waiting for all reports before diagnosing but she plain as day told me what her thoughts were after I told her every weird thing my body has been doing.

From facial weaknesses and Bell’s palsy, eye crossing, double-vision more so at night and horrific spasms mostly in back, legs and feet with a 6 day stint of myopathy after general anesthesia. Bad spasms, muscle twitching to rolling muscles, difficulty with balance - a cane helps. It hurts to walk. My quality of life has gone down. I cant do what I used to do. Not for a while. I try to walk. And its slow going. But it hurts too much.

The neuromuscular doctor said neuropathy would not cause muscle spasms. That got me. I’ve been living for the past two years with horrendous pain, with controlled blood sugars, and thought it was from the falls I’ve been having. Unexplained shortness of breath that isn’t helped with the cpap. Years ago had unexplained excruciating pain while taking breaths in. It eventually resolved over time but it was worse at night, just like the double vision. After I rest for a couple hours the double vision gets better.

Weird things started a long time ago, unexplained pain. First they thought FM. I do have back issues, and autoimmune psoriatic arthritis but it wouldn’t cause the painful tingling.

It sounds like this doctor is on the case. She spent 1 hr and 45 minutes with me. It was a 45 minute appointment.

She had me try to walk without a cane and balance on heals and tip toes. That was not happening. I tried.

So, does anyone with seronegative MG and can you have a combination of ocular mg and general mg? she wants to do another chest ct.
Any ideas? Does any of this sound familiar? I don’t want to end up having convulsions from SPS spasm triggers in my future. I don’t know which one is worse.

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So far, EMG found severe chronic damage especially at L5 and S1. All of neck especially at C7 & C5. She is calling it bilateral polyradiculopathy and ulnar neuropathy at elbow at the cubital tunnel. She didn’t detect neuropathy in feet!!! Its all due to back. She wants mri with contrast to see if its inflammatory or compressive. And ct to evaluate thymoma, benighted. If there is compression vs inflammation (or the other way around, I did not understand how she phrased it, but in that case she would want to do a spinal tap. I’m a mess. That explains weird sensations I’ve been getting in my fingers. No neuropathy!!! I can’t believe it. So won’t know what can be done to fix me yet until we get all the tests back plus the GAD test that has been two weeks already and have not gotten it back yet. So far the mg labs are negative. She did all 4.

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@nemo1

So far, EMG found severe chronic damage especially at L5 and S1. All of neck especially at C7 & C5. She is calling it bilateral polyradiculopathy and ulnar neuropathy at elbow at the cubital tunnel. She didn’t detect neuropathy in feet!!! Its all due to back. She wants mri with contrast to see if its inflammatory or compressive. And ct to evaluate thymoma, benighted. If there is compression vs inflammation (or the other way around, I did not understand how she phrased it, but in that case she would want to do a spinal tap. I’m a mess. That explains weird sensations I’ve been getting in my fingers. No neuropathy!!! I can’t believe it. So won’t know what can be done to fix me yet until we get all the tests back plus the GAD test that has been two weeks already and have not gotten it back yet. So far the mg labs are negative. She did all 4.

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Hi!
What was the result on your GAD65?

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Hi. SLS studies were within normal limits. Thanks for asking.

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The nerve damage is what’s taking a lot of physical therapy to deal with that and lyrica.

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The nerve damage is what’s taking a lot of physical therapy to deal with that and lyrica.

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I wish you the best.

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Ocular mg usually turns into general mg- I am seronegative mg- diagnosed when eye dropped at second visit/ also have graves/ but graves now in remission/ you can actually go in and out of general mg but ocular mg is pretty steady-

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