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Hi every one.

Sweetness here as you all know me in the chartroom ; ) 

Well I started having these weird numbness in my left arm and left leg and they lasted for only about 30 seconds or so for about a month or so and this was about 7-8 years ago and I didn’t think much of it; I mean I was a teenager 17 or 18 years old and all I thought about was how to have fun and stuff so I didn’t want that to get me down. I saw a physician whom diagnosed with depression at that time and put me on Paxil. I took Paxil for a month and I was fine and back to normal so I figured oh it was nothing and I really was just depressed. Some years passed and I was just fine for the next 5 upcoming years of my life until the year of my 25th birthday. In October 2008 just two months before I turned 25, one day I woke up getting ready for work and I felt this light pain in my left leg’s calf and I just thought it was only a soar muscle so I got ready and left for work . This continued for a week and half except that my muscle became more soar and my ability to walk with my left leg was decreasing quickly. I was limping from my car to the office I was working in and limping back to the car at the end of the day. Doing things were becoming very difficult. At home it was a 15 minute trip to go from the living room up to my room. I would lay on the couch in front of the TV and thinking to myself “oh my god I think I’m getting paralyzed!” and the I would look at my left leg and would wiggle my toes and then be like I can’t be going paralyzed I can still move my toes and then I would look off in confusion and try to forget about the thing that had paralyzed my leg along with my life that I had no idea of.

My parents couldn’t bare to see me limping around when the third week hit and so we made an appointment with a doctor and went to see him the next day. On the day of the doctor’s visit thing had gotten so bad that I couldn’t even move my leg. It was so embarrassing trying to walk or should I say limp like that. At the doctor’s office I was thinking ok well he’ll just give me some antibiotics or something and I’ll be fine. He asked me a bunch of questions and checked my legs and my reflexes and also my eyes and then wanted me to get an MRI and also wanted me to go see a neurologist. At this point I was so nervous that I was sweating in October.

A week later after the MRI the doctor calls me on my cell phone to talk to me. “I see some spots on your spine and then some scars on your brain MRI and I’m thinking that its MS.” After he said that I felt like the whole world had just crashed in on me. I didn’t know anything about MS so I was terrified. My birthday was in December and so for my 25th birthday I got MS.

From there on to the neurologist and then the steroid infusions and some physical therapy and I’ve been doing good since then til a month ago that I started getting numb and the neuro asked for another MRI to determine if I’m going through a flare up or if its neuropathy and I’m seeing him next week . I’m hopeful for myself and everyone else that struggles with the challenges of MS every day of life. BE STRONG AND NEVER GIVE UP, THIS IS A BATTLE WE WILL SOMEDAY WIN AGAIST MS…HOPE ON MY FRIENDS.