Twitching feet, numbness and headache

Hi @pdsi43one, I'm glad I was able to help a little. Thank you for pointing out the B12 absorption issue when you have pernicious anemia. We are learning from each other which is a good thing.

John

John, the two blood tests for PA are: Intrinsic Factor Blocking Ab and Methylmalonic Acid, Serum.

@johnbishop right now I am in the hospital with my sister who is having memory issues like I had isn't that strange but they said it's not dementia it might be encephalitis like I had or other encephalitis that can't figure out. And I know that's a hepatic thing. So hopefully it's not the same.

Hoping they find out what’s wrong with your sister and she is able to get on the road to recovery.

Genetics do play a part. I found out recently that my cousin who is about the same age as I am also has Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) and small fiber peripheral neuropathy just like I have.

John

@johnbishop thank you John I am sending a message to the neurologist at the Mayo Clinic that behavioral therapy isn't where I need to go and I don't have conversion disorder and also when she said I been a neurologist for along time and she knows about neurology and what my neurologist said is true and I have to deal with it if all the test comes back normal she needs to read the Mayo Clinic autoimmune encephalitis alliance and the book Brain on fire she will know the symptoms of autoimmune encephalitis disease. And I am not mental maybe she will learn something she was wrong. You said we have to be our own advocate and you are correct but I guess if I didn't go through it they wouldn't know how to test her. I am praying for you. You are a great mentor who helps people all the time

@oldkarl you are so right and I knew it was something that wasn't right. I kept getting diagnoses that just didn't add up. I went to the Mayo Clinic and the neurologist thought I needed to go to behavioral therapy she told everything was normal and I would have to deal with what my previous doctors were saying. Today my sister had to go to the hospital with the same symptoms I had at the beginning stripping, memory loss and I knew something was wrong. She would tell me one think and other people even her children something different. She didn't have seizures or falling and being unconscious like me . And she hasn't had to go to ICU she's talking but makes no sense. I told the doctors we had the same symptoms I was falling. So they thought it was a stroke and I said no she doesn't have the symptoms. Then dementia I said again no and he said he didn't think so either but that's protacol which I am aware of. Then meningitis but I knew not that because my son had that and those weren't the symptoms. Then after I told him about my encephalitis and autoimmune encephalitis he said we will check that. I told him also check her ammonia levels. So I have read it can have the same symptoms of dementia and alzhemimer and so I thank God I researched it because my doctors weren't. So I thought the neurologist at the Mayo Clinic all knew but I found out only 2 and I didn't get either one. And I still have headaches just like she does so I might have to get another appointment but this time with Dr.Britton
It seems like we are the doctors. But thank you so much for that information because I almost died twice and been in I CU twice and in the mental hospital 3 times just because of autoimmune encephalitis that was labelled I had conversion disorder and stressed, depressed and anxiety. And it was all because of doctors who didn't do their research.

@techi Oh, Lisa, I am so glad you have found some answers. Of course I am not glad you have the disorder, but being able to put a name to it is the beginning of control. So glad I could help.

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John

Hi!

Could these issues be coming from your spine????

ronnie