Last summer, I was coughing really hard, when all of the sudden my legs went numb and I got incredibly dizzy. I was still able to walk, but couldn't feel my legs when I touched them and they felt like they belonged to someone else. I laid down, the numbness went away in about 5 minutes but I had an intense headache and was extremely nauseous. Also, I turned on the tv and realized that I couldn't see anything if I looked at it straight on. Anything I looked at was black. After about an hour, the dizziness subsided, I threw up and the headache went away. About an hour after that, my vision returned to normal.
My doctor had me go in for a head and neck MRI, both of which came back completely normal. We figured it was some weird fluke thing. Well, it happened again about a month ago, again when I was coughing. This time it was only my left leg and buttcheek that were numb, but everything else was the same. Threw up twice, terrible headache, and the vision loss for a couple of hours. Talked to the doc, talked to a neurologist, and he said he'd see me in a couple of months, if the MRI was normal then it probably wasn't a huge deal.
Well, it just happened again Monday night. Coughing again (and coughing hard, but not the hardest I've ever coughed or anything). This time everything below my chest was numb for almost 20 minutes and my husband had to help me walk to the bed. I am pregnant so not being able to feel my stomach really freaked me out. I would've gone to the emergency room, but I knew all the symptoms would be gone by the time I got there, plus we are having a horrible flu outbreak down here and I don't want to catch that. This time the vision/headache/nausea weren't as bad as the numbness.
So I have an appointment with the neurologist on Friday (this time I insisted on seeing him right away), but from the way he sounded on the phone I don't know what they can do after a normal MRI. Has anyone had anything like this happen before? It's not really that painful, but incredibly scary to be coughing and all the sudden lose control of a large part of my body. And the fact that I'm pregnant makes it 1000 times scarier.
Sorry so long! This may be totally un-CF related, but since it's always caused by me coughing, I thought I'd check to see if anyone else has ever experienced this.
My doctor had me go in for a head and neck MRI, both of which came back completely normal. We figured it was some weird fluke thing. Well, it happened again about a month ago, again when I was coughing. This time it was only my left leg and buttcheek that were numb, but everything else was the same. Threw up twice, terrible headache, and the vision loss for a couple of hours. Talked to the doc, talked to a neurologist, and he said he'd see me in a couple of months, if the MRI was normal then it probably wasn't a huge deal.
Well, it just happened again Monday night. Coughing again (and coughing hard, but not the hardest I've ever coughed or anything). This time everything below my chest was numb for almost 20 minutes and my husband had to help me walk to the bed. I am pregnant so not being able to feel my stomach really freaked me out. I would've gone to the emergency room, but I knew all the symptoms would be gone by the time I got there, plus we are having a horrible flu outbreak down here and I don't want to catch that. This time the vision/headache/nausea weren't as bad as the numbness.
So I have an appointment with the neurologist on Friday (this time I insisted on seeing him right away), but from the way he sounded on the phone I don't know what they can do after a normal MRI. Has anyone had anything like this happen before? It's not really that painful, but incredibly scary to be coughing and all the sudden lose control of a large part of my body. And the fact that I'm pregnant makes it 1000 times scarier.
Sorry so long! This may be totally un-CF related, but since it's always caused by me coughing, I thought I'd check to see if anyone else has ever experienced this.