Cardiac and neurological symptoms..

Well considering most of us aren't doctors, ideas may not be very forthcoming

Well, if none of them tests have shown anyhting, then pbviously there is nothing major to worry about it. Mabe you were a little stressed when you had your blood pressure done? That can make your blood pressure high!

I could put it down to stress on the day - but it's been bouncing up and down all over the place since then. I'm also pretty worried about the numbness in the fingers - even with a clean MRI the symptoms are still present. Argh... when I first got the tachycardia and couldn't breath I seriously thought I was dying.. scary stuff... I thought heartfailure. Then with the finger symptoms I thought MS... Everybody seems to be putting this down to stress (was worried about Cambridge at the time) - but the symptoms are all too real to be psychosomatic...

Ok, i can see why you are worried... Such high blood pressure cannot be attributed to stress... there is bound to be an underlying cause for it...

In any case, it doesn't sound like multiple sclerosis to me - it would not cause hypertension and the cardiac problems complaining about...

The numbness in your fingers sound to me like a sign of hypertension... but you are seeing experts in their field and there is little more i can tell you... I wouldn't want to speculate anymore... There are numerous causes of high blood pressure and it is really up to the cardiologist to find out...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_hypertension

I could put it down to stress on the day - but it's been bouncing up and down all over the place since then. I'm also pretty worried about the numbness in the fingers - even with a clean MRI the symptoms are still present. Argh... when I first got the tachycardia and couldn't breath I seriously thought I was dying.. scary stuff... I thought heartfailure. Then with the finger symptoms I thought MS... Everybody seems to be putting this down to stress (was worried about Cambridge at the time) - but the symptoms are all too real to be psychosomatic...

All patients lie is the first thing House would say. Then he would do a differential diagnosis. You would then be cured - except if you have late-stage rabies. Which is unlikely. Therefore, House + Your Illness = Cured. Simple.

some confusing stuff there undoubtably, but nothing anyone here is going to be better at figuring out than a cardiologist and neurologist.
If there is something going on, I'd lay my money on neurology.

whats the echocardiogram like have one next week

Thanks lot for your reply - I can strike a few of the illnesses described off the list such as renal failure and anaemia as well as a couple of the others that are on the list as the symptoms aren't consistent (like cushing's) - but Conn's syndrome (or Hyperaldosteronism) do seem quite consistent barring the tachycardia which i manisfested. I'm being tested for Phaeochromocytoma at the moment but the results aren't in as they take a long time for the catecholamines to process.

Rep coming your way!

Ok, thanks... I can happily tell you that I have never heard of any of those conditions before except anaemia...

but one thing i'll tell you is take care when trying to diagnose yourself over the internet...

I had an ear infection a few months ago and it lasted for about a month... but during that time i was in a pretty bad state... none of the anti-biotics i took stopped the infection and i ended up with a massive lump behind my ear, lost my hearing and had discharge coming out of my ear all the time...

I went through all the google and wikipaedia I could find... In the end I thought I had mastoiditis (where you get infection spreading to the mastoid bone behind your ear) and was terryfied that my middle ear infection had spread to my inner ear and that was why i had such bad hearing loss... So after this peroid of self-diagnosis I felt like I was going to die... Of course I never had mastoiditis - it was a swollen lymph node - and my middle ear infection never spread to my inner ear... so take care when you try to diagnose yourself... I may have matched the list of symptoms in wikipaedia - but there is much more too it than that... and after a while, you'll see that many of the symptoms are essentially the same...

So in a way, it is good to be very stupid when you are ill for a long time... If you live in blissful ignorance and have complete trust in doctors you can cope with being ill much better... Neither of which I have... I coped with being ill by carrying on as though there was nothing wrong with me... and I was extremely reluctant to take any form of pain killer unless i was desperate for it... my mentality was that it only hurt if i stopped to think about it - so my answer was not to stop basically... and that month was one of the most productive period work wise in my life...

I am going on a complete tangent... but am basically making the point that doctors can only do so much... and although you may be annoyed that they haven't found the cause - understand that there are doing the best they can... This is not always true - but from what you are telling me it does seem so in this case... and secondly, try and carry on as though things are normal... i found that this helped me more than sitting on a computer trying to find out what was wrong and getting it drastically wrong and thinking i was going to die from some horrific condition... okay, it wasn't quite that serious, but you know what i mean...

so the moral of the story is have some faith in the docs, try to carry on just as though you were not ill, have a positive attitude and understand problems of self-diagnosis using wikipaedia...

Yeh - I would as well because both ekg's and echo's were perfectly normal. But my MRI was clean except for a suspected lipoma in my neck. The only other option is endocrine - but I'll have to follow that one up.

ECG in this country at least.

Really though, nobody on here is going to know more than the consultants who have already reviewed you. The more you try to diagnose yourself with weird and wonderful problems (watching House is NOT a good basis for medical education, as I keep telling my boyfriend ) the more you'll worry about these things. Rest assured that if nothing has shown up on investigations, either you'll develop more symptoms which will give them more clues, or it'll resolve itself.

The BP alone could just be "White Coat Syndrome" and although it is all obviously distressing for you, if the cardiologists were worried, they'd have you in hospital, so don't stress yourself