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TimJFloyd  HELLO WORLD!!! MY NAME IS TIM FLOYD. I WAS DXED IN NOVEMBER OF 2007
AT THE AGE OF 24, AND HAVEN'T LOOKED BACK SINCE. I AM FROM THE BIG CITY
OF CLEMSON, SOUTH CAROLINA, HOME OF THE INFAMOUS CLEMSON TIGERS.I GUESS MY MS STORY GOES A LITTLE SOMETHING LIKE THIS....... IN OCTOBER OF 2007 I STARTED HAVING A SHOOTING PAIN IN THE LEFT SIDE OF MY HEAD. I WOULD FEEL PRESSURE BUILD UP AND THEN RELEASE. WELL ME BEING THE STUBBORN GUY THAT I AM, I DIDN'T GO TO THE DOCTOR RIGHT AWAY. THE PAIN BECAME MORE AND MORE FREQUENT. I DID FINALLY GET TO THE DOCTOR, AND HE SAID OK TIME FOR A CT SCAN OF MY BRAIN. ONCE MY CT SCAN WAS DONE I WENT BACK TO MY FAMILY DOCTOR. ALL HE COULD TELL ME WAS WE NEED TO DO AN MRI TOO MAKE SURE EVERYTHING IS OK BECAUSE SOME QUESTIONS AROSE FROM THE CT SCAN.BY THIS TIME A DX OF HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE HAD BEEN CONFIRMED AND MEDICATIONS STARTED. THE HEADACHES WERE GONE. TWO DAYS LATER MY DOCTOR CALLS ME AND SAYS, "YOU NEED TO MEET A NEUROLOGIST IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM TOMORROW (SATURDAY). TALK ABOUT ANXIETY.....NOT GONNA LIE ABOUT IT I WAS SCARED. WHAT COULD BE SO BAD THAT I HAVE TO MEET A NEURO ON SATURDAY IN THE ER??? WELL, WHEN I WENT TO THE ER AND MY NERO SAW ME FOR THE FIRST TIME HIS FIRST COMMENT TO ME WAS, "OMG YOU ARE WALKING? I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT YOU WOULD BE USING A CANE IF NOTHING ELSE TO GET AROUND." WELL I WASN'T. I GUESS THE GOOD LORD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS. AFTER A SPINAL TAP AND A FEW OTHER TESTS I GOT THE DX OF RR MS. THEN SOME THINGS STARTED MAKING SINCE. I HAD A REAL BAD LIMP FOR SEVERAL MONTHS SEVERAL YEARS EARLIER, AND THIS TINGLING SENSATION THAT WOULD COME AND GO. HMM...WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE ATTRIBUTED TO MS? I AM CURRENTLY TAKING REBIF INJECTIONS 3 DAYS A WEEK, AND HAVE NOT HAD ANY MAJOR SYMPTOMS SINCE I WAS DXED. SO ALL IN ALL LIFE IS GOING PRETTY GOOD.
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