Hi,
I'm a 23 year old female who until recently has had no major health concerns. Two months ago, a few days after I had a mild flu, I had what I thought was a migrane (I normally get 1-2 per year). I normally get an aura, but with this one I had double and blurred vision, and it lasted 2 days. Following this, I had four more days of off-on headaches with vision difficulties (mostly relating to glare from computers, tvs, fluorescent lights). This went away, and I started to get tingling sensations throughout my body. Some numbness accompanied them, but tingling was primary. The sensations would bounce from one area to another, sometimes lasting for seconds, sometimes for hours. Sometimes the tingling felt like burning. Another week went by of this, and then the tingling almost stopped completely. My right arm was weak for a day (very weak, difficulty holding my cell phone, pushing buttons as I felt I had reduced control). This feeling highly concerned me.
The next day, my left arm was just as weak. This continued for several weeks, with a varying intensity of weakness in the left arm. My other symptoms abated. Generally, the weakness did not happen first thing in the morning, generally 1/2-1 hour after I got out of bed. However, it was still there in the evening when I went to bed. Sometimes I felt like my arm was lead, sometimes it was mild, like the muscle was tight. Sometimes it was the whole arm, sometimes just a portion. Then, all of my symptoms disappeared. For about two weeks, I only had slight problems with glare from computers/fluorescent lights. My arms felt totally normal, I worked out like I had been prior to the headaches. Then, slowly, I felt my left arm was a little weak again. I started to get twitches in my left arm, which concerned me with the weakness. Now, my left arm is mildly weak, and my right arm is off/on weak. I have twitching, primarily in my left arm and hand (by my thumb), but also in my right arm, abdomen and lower legs.
Help?