I appreciate that there are already quite a lot of threads on here about MS but I can't seem to find any with the exact same symptoms that I'm experiencing. I've looked on Google and that seems to suggest it could be but I really want to know first hand from someone with MS if it could actually be?
I'm 51 (just), perimenopausal,very fit (walk between 5 & 8 miles a day plus sometimes other exercise) and eat pretty well. Since the first Lockdown, I've been bloody stupid and smoked quite a bit - not every day but on & off for most months since then. Before that, I'd been a social smoker in my teens and some of my 20's. Went about 15 years zero smoking, then maybe once or twice a year after that but mainly nothing until first Lockdown.
Anyway, have started noticing (in last 6 months or so) that I occasionally get sudden weakness and very weird sensation in both my arms at exactly the same time, and my arms tremble too, making it, for example difficult to grip my phone & text. I also occasionally get a very heavy, dead, foot/leg which I can't put any weight on as I can't feel it but that doesn't happen very often. My arms are more frequent but can still have days, possibly weeks in between but I noticed today it happened twice. The sensations only last for about a minute or so but it's horrible. I am so frightened and terrified it could be MS and I can't begin to imagine how I'd cope and feel if I lost my mobility as fitness is such a huge part of my life.
Please could you let me know what you think and also let me know if you've had similar arm issues? I don't know whether to describe it as pins & needles as I hardly ever used to have that but this isn't so much a pricking sensation but more a weird, stretching, heavy, weak feeling.
Thank you so much