PeopleWithMS Newsletter 08-19-07
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Ok,
let’s get to the DX. I really never had any symptoms at any time in my life. I
was not an athlete or any thing like that but I was pretty active. My father was
in the Military, we moved around a lot as I was growing up. I think that the
only corner of the US that I didn’t live in was north east. Of all the places
I lived, Alaska was the most memorable. Cold there? Um, yaw. I remember it
getting to 82 deg below zero once, we almost froze to death. I really never put
any thought into it at the time, that some day down the road that this incident
could have an impact on my life. I am not sure that it ever did for that matter.
But I do feel it still today. The cold really bothers me. It wasn’t until I
had a child that the symptoms started, my newborn son was just 3 weeks old, I
was numb and tingly all over, it was really hard to hold my new baby. I even
fell once while holding him, he wasn’t hurt, and neither was I, just my ego
maybe. And no one saw it, as I was at home, and it was private. I went to the
Dr, they ran just about every test they could, that were not MS related, at
least I don’t think so, and they didn’t even mention MS. The only thing the
Dr could say was, I see a problem, but I just can’t quite pinpoint it. I am
sure that this saying is in the Dr Dictionary, I decided that I needed a second
opinion, so I went to another Dr, this Dr wasn’t much better. But he says
Multiple Sclerosis, and a couple of other things, but I only heard the Multiple
Sclerosis. They did a battery of blood tests and hooked me up with wires on
machines me among other testss, They did MRI’s of my back, brain and neck,
they came up with their DX. I had Multiple Sclerosis. Wow. That was just about
the worst news I had, my son was now 10 months old, and it was 2 weeks before
Christmas. It was a shock. I still didn’t really need any medicine as of yet,
but I did have my DX. They gave me some meds to take as I was dealing with
depression, and hadn’t really gotten over the postpartum depression due to the
struggle of what my life was dealing me.
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