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I think my neurologist believes I am a hypochondriac, and I understand why.

I am a technical analyst by profession and by nature and am meticulous in gathering data. I've also expressed concerns to my GP and to the Neuro as to specific diseases that might make me weak on one side and make me twitch. The diagnosis that the neuro gave for these is Anxiety. I agree, anxiety does make me twitch worse, but it doesn't have any effect on the left side weakness. What kind of Anxiety disorder causes weakness and pain on one side of the body, starting with the leg, then progressing to the arm, then neck? None that I know of. The only Anxiety problem I have is a mild social anxiety - I really don't like big groups of people or crowds and avoid them if possible.

I've had some time to think about this and I believe that his conclusion may be that of hypochondria (or cyberchondria). I'm now wondering if he thinks the problems with visual snow, which he has all but ignored/dismissed, fits in to this diagnosis as well. I'm not going to pretend cyberchondria isn't a possibility, but it would seem odd since I researched the symptoms after they developed, but then he didn't bother to find that out and I'm not sure if he'd believe me if I told him.

So, no more meticulous data collection. No more trying to be helpful. Screw it. If they don't think there's something physical, I'll just tell them to give me anti-anxity pills until I'm completely non-functional and see if the problems persist.

Yeesh! My shrink thinks I'm normal, my Neiro thinks I'm nuts!

What a world.

Jim