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| *Women health>>>Multiple Sclerosis |
How did you notice that You had Multiple sclerosis? |
What were your first symptoms to Multiple sclerosis? and what did you do about it ? are you wheel chair bound ? are you on medicine? Thanks all A lot of people first get optic neuritis like I did. The eye doctor saw the optic neuritis and he told me that there was a chance I had MS. The neurologist did an MRI and told me the chances that I had MS were in the 50-75% range. I began reading all about MS symptoms and knew that I definitely had it. A subsequent MRI was loaded with lesions. I then went blind in my left eye, suffered excrutiating pain, could hardly walk, had slurred speech, cognitive problems and memory problems. A few months later all the symptoms that I described went away. I took Copaxone for a few years. I went off it and now take only LDN (Low Dose Naltrexone). I am not wheelchair bound. I live a pretty normal life despite having MS. While some people become profoundly affected by the disease, others have pretty benign cases. But MS is highly unpredictable. I started with optic neuritis. My ophthalmologist knew that more than half of the people who get ON develop MS, so he recommended I go back to my doctor and schedule an MRI. Done and done, and they tell me I have probable MS. After a second MRI a few months later, and comparison between the two showing that I'm getting more lesions on the brain and they can then confirm MS. I'm on Copaxone. I have to take the shot every day, but it has the least side effects. Not to mention you can keep it at room temperature for up to a month. The medicine has held off any other symptoms so far. We shall see. -cj My first symptoms were well before I was actually diagnoised with MS. About 7 years prior I experienced my legs numb and thought I had pulled something in my back, the doctors sent me for an MRI of my brain, which showed nothing wrong. This was back in 1986. Seven years later I became very dizzy, light headed and before the end of that day I was unable to feel my left leg. But in-between those years, I also had optic neuritis several times, tripping while walking up steps and my arms falling asleep for hours at a time. WHEN I WAS DIAGNOSED I WAS HAVING AN EXACERBATION, MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO WORK, I WAS WALKING DOWN A LONG HALLWAY INTO A LARGE GARAGE AND WHEN MY EYES BEGAN TO ADJUST TO THE VERY LARGE DIM LITE ROOM (16 BAYS) I FELL TO GROUND AND STARTED GETTING A CRAZY BUZZ IN MY HEAD WHICH THEN WENT ON FOR DAYS AND I FINALLY WENT TO DOCTORS WHERE A NURSE PRACTIONER CAUGHT IT BY WATCHING ME WALK SENT ME FOR AN MRI AND THE REST IS HISTORY. BUT THE FIRST SYMPTOM I CAN RELATE BACK TO MS WAS ABOUT A YEAR BEFORE MY DX MY LEFT EYE BEGAN TO TURN IN, I WAS DRIVING FROM MASS TO VA AND HAD TO WHERE A PATCH OVER ONE EYE TO KEEP MY VISION CLEAR. I WAS INITIALLY PRESCRIBED AVONNEX WHICH HAD MANY SIDE EFFECTS THAT I DIDNT TAKE WELL TOO, I WAS THEN CHANGED TO COPAXONE WHICH I HAVE BEEN ON FOR A FEW YEARS NOW AND HAVE BEEN EXACERBATION FREE SINCE STARTING WITH THE COPAXONE TREATMENT. I also started with Optic Neuritis. Had double vision, both eyes going in opposite direction. I was put on IV Steroids, told I some kind of inflammationon my brain and sent home after 3 days. No one made any mention of MS. Ten years later had trouble with urination and gait. Had an MRI and tada finally a diagnosis. |
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