What Do Extreme Fatigue And Tingling In Lower Extremeties Suggest?

Hello, I have had tingling in my lower extremities estimating a month or two , maybe longer. Extreme fatigue symptom, so dramatic I keep telling muy husband, I am so tired, something is wrong. This is different tired . Not like a depression . Something is wrong. Why am I so tired? No response from husband. I am worried , this is a different tired then I have ever experienced. Then I have tingling sensation in my feet. I don t connect anything yet. I make a doctor appt. I have my husband take me . I tell my doctor about this extreme fatigue. dizziness. He asks What are you eating? I think, I have only had in 4 to 5 days, two oranges, and two bottles of Boost. I have no appetite at all. No desire for any food. I will eat an orange or drink Boost if they are available in the house. I keep telling my husband, I need some Boost, I have no more oranges to eat. This is all thay appeals to me. I actually am so fatigued I am not driving myself to the grocery store to get food I need. I let my husband know, There is no Boost or oranges left. No response. No food. I tell my doctor there was no food in the house, meaning food I know I will ear. He asks me why. My extreme fatigue has made me inactive to the point of nearly complete bedrest. I say Peter . My doctor goes out to the waiting area to talk to Peter about lack of necessary nutrition, meaning get food in the house. However I know this near bedridden exhaustion is not from lack of food. or Boost supplement. Iwas so weak to even open the door to the cupboard to take my daily antidepressants, which were Effexor and Prozac. I can t physically manage this. I return to bed, Getting up only once a day to the bathroom. I am exhausted. No Effexor or Prozac because I can not extend myself physically. Something is very wrong still. I go to ER. Something is wrong. I am discvharged from ER. I recall being discharged from ER in the wheelchair saying , I am still dizzy, and I still have a headache. I usually take an advil or two for a bothersome headache. It does relieve the headache. Advil has not relieved my headaches recently. But that is not why I went to an ER, not for my bothersome headache. I am lacking sleep, serious sleep. Have not been sleeping even two straight hours at a time. I am in bed continually, but not sleeping. No sleep for who knows how many days now. plus not taking the Effexor and Prozac, due to circumstances I described . I know something is wrong . My symptoms are not decreasing, I remain dizzy.I go to an urgent care. Iknow something is wrong . I am getting worse whether this ER says I am alright or not. This MD in Urgent care listens to my symptoms, She listens to my lungs. She asks me to take deep breath I take a breath. The doctor listens shr tells me to take a breath again I try to. I suddenly realize I cannot take any breath easily. I hear an expiratory wheeze. This doctor tells me I am wheezy. Now I know I am not wheezy. I am an old nurse. I worked on a medical floor forover 15 years. I can hear wheezy without a stethoscope, or when I listen to a patient s lungs with one. I could not hear my own wheezes. The doctor tells me I am not breathing well at all. I am surprised hearing this. THen I realize, extreme fatigue to a point of exhaustion,I was not breathing. I could not take a deep breath with effort. The doctor tells the RN to give me a breathing tx. now. She does. I am amazed at how much better I feel immediately. The doctor listens to my lungs again She orders another breathing tx. I feel amaxingly better . That was it . The doctor tells me I am going to the ER at the nearby hospital now. I said , My husband can take me, he is here. This doctor tells me , Yor are going by ambulance now. I am transported to the nearby hospital; I am accessed at this ER. I am cleared to go home. I am so happy she, (this urgent care doctor diagnosed my problem. I feel good.. I knew something was very wrong. This doctor said to me, You are not breathing. She sent me to ER to make sure I would receive more thorough testing if determined necessary by the ER physicians. Why was this missed? I have an excellent primary doctor. Not enough information obtained by him? I am so sick, plus severely sleep deprived I am not on my own offering him information I normally might tell him. I am depending on him for this part. I am tired, physically tired. Now my tingling in my feet . I read right on line about symptoms of MS. I know all symptoms of any disease are not always present at the same time? Who doesn t if they are a doctor, or RN? we know this I know but not to the extent of an expert on MS, some symptoms of MS. Could this be what might be occurring? The dizziness is gone. I was admitted to the hospital nearby last week. My respiratory problem , diagnosed as acute bronchospasm is gone. I had to go get my record from urgent care to get the diagnosis after I was released. I needed to see why I was rushed by ambulance to ER. Now I am in ER. I am trying to convey I have a problem. I cannot get words out. I realize I am speaking clearly. I may not present with word fimding difficulty but I eep telling the RN, It is like I have to pull to get my words out. AS if I am reaching out fot the words to pull them down to speak. I knowI sound clear. I know to you ER RN it seems as if I am having no problem. I am telling you it is as if I am having word finding difficulty as in a stroke. I am scared . I know what I feel occurring to me is very wrong . I am not having a symptom like this without a reason .It is a valid fear to think it could be a symptom of a stroke, or maybe something else. I know this is a symptom whether you tell me I am alright or not. I am trying to convey I am having word finding difficulty. I am being told by ER Rn I am not. Yes I am St Joseph ER staff. I am tired. I do not let the ER rn know I have not been taking any mediaction I routinely take because I have been to exhaustef to open the med cupboard door. I do not force the ER doctor to order any thing . WE know you don t force an experienced ER physician to order anything let alone a scan. I am transported to a scan Iam told by the staff it is going to be very , very loud. Be prepared. I later wonder why I couldn t have been given earplugs. You do not move or have to move. You just need to lie still, if you are able.The scan is started. I move through this tube The noise begins. It is unimaginable to me. I am doing all I can to get through this scan. The noise is intolerable to me. I know at this point I cannot finish this test . I cannot. I tell the tech. Stop! Stop!. Dr. Sanda I could not take this one more second . Not at this time . The test is not completed. I don t know what would have happened to me if that test was not stopped. It was because I said I could not tolerate it. Would a complete scan give an answer to any of my present symptoms of foot tingling? The dizziness is now gone, but I did have dizziness while in the hospital (12) days. I told the RN assigned to me that. The medication (Effexor, Prozac) I had been on was stopped while I was hospitalized. I had severe burning sensation in the back of my calves and thighs one night in the hospital. It was painful enough to keep me awake. It really hurt . It kept me awake all night. I tried to ring for help, to get an advil or something for this pain . It is bad. I cannot reach the call bell. Why? There is no call bell on the bed itself to ring. I am not able to reach up over the bed on the wall in back of my bed to ring. It is very difficult to even see it. I don t have my glasses It is dark(night) I can t see to put another light on. I cannot reach my call bell at all. It may have appeared like I slept Rn staffperson, but I did not sleep at all. It was a terrible night. I still remember that pain I rub my legs for relief of some kind . It does not help . I need a call bell I can hold in my hand to ring. I am upset I could not ring for help I needed . I tell the Rn at the nurses s station, this is not good forme. Can I have a call light to hold onto to rig? even look the next day(Morning) to see if one could be attached somewhere. I can tfind anyplace. Maybe the staff Rn can help. I ask for a call I can use. No, we don t have that kind on this unit I am told. Then if my only call bell can t be used by me, get me something else. We don t have anything else. This is what we have here on this unit. It goes on. My scan was never completed. Would another one help find out why my legs still tingle Thank you. I hope it isnot MS Dara Church