Scared, and looking for guidance.
I have always felt, off. My entire life. A few weeks ago, I woke up to numbness on the left side of my body. Over the course of a week, and numerous hospitals turning me away, the numbness progressed from part of my head, to the entirety of my left side down to my foot and excruciating pain in the back of my head. Finally found a hospital that took me seriously, and they ran the MRI and found 2 lesions. They said 95% positive its MS, and waiting for my spinal tap results. Currently, I am home,on a bunch of steroids. But..I cant feel either of my feet at all, my left arm feels dead, and all of my muscles in my leg, and near my throat are soo tight i cant stand it.I just feel so run down and sick, and im purely devastated. Does this heal? Will I recover from this? Did I get treatment too late? I dont know what to think. Scared even more, what if this ISNT MS?? What if they were wrong, and they dont know how to treat this and help me? Anyone experience this and have a positive result? Are you better now? Did symptoms go away??
I kinda went through this 31 years ago. It took over a year to diagnose me because mine was acting strange. Good part is i did improve. Bad part is I've gone way downhill since however they have better treatments now so if it is M.S. you should be good for a long time. Good luck.
To Edit this, I just got the test result back for the Oligoclonal banding, and it was present in my CSF. Soo...guess im joining the official MS club. 😭