Thread: MS experience
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Old Sep 11, 2016, 09:20 PM
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Originally Posted by justafriend306 View Post
I'm just wondering when you knew something was wrong? What symptoms did you have? What were your experiences during diagnosis? What's involved in diagnosis?

Frankly I don't know if my problems are real or something everyone on occasion experiences.
MS is a physical health disorder where its very obvious something is wrong. short version if you have been to the doctor for any physical health problem your doctor would immediately know something wrong.

Im guessing if your treatment providers havent sent you for tests like an MRI, CAT Scan, spinal tap, nerve conductivity tests, EEG and many other tests you can relax.

MS is an extremely painful disease where the covering of a persons nerve cells deteriorate to the point where your nerves no longer have their protective covering.

lets put it this way in its painful non medicated episode you would not be typing \ posting on line because just the act of putting your finger tips on a keyboard is pass out painful. you would not be able to even see the letters on the key board and would would not be able to move your fingers or wrists to type.

that said sometimes MS does go undiagnosed for a while and the person only finds out after they have passed out and hospitalized and tested to find out why they suddenly lost control of their muscles so they could no longer stand, see, hear and the pain caused them to pass out.

my suggestion to anyone who feels they may have this life threatening disease is to contact their medical doctor. there is no cure, the symptoms can be treated through medications that keep the problems under control for a limited time but eventually the person ends up dying due to having nerve cells with no covering and all their muscles and nerves including those that control their internal organs no longer work.