Deteriorating quality of life, it may now be ms?
For five years things have been so crazy. I went to a n e with right sided pain and back pain never got anywhere and went from being super fit to obese and low. My symptoms started as right sided pain, back pain, dissociation/foggy head, tingling and right leg numbness. In the last year- its bowel and bladder problems unable to really feel sensations and cant use them properly, and unable to walk and extortionate pain. This happens every 2/3 months. Any drop of alcohol puts me in a dementia slurring dizzy state for a week. And my head is slowly not working how it should. But then id be back to normal all again till the next episode. I was in hospital for cauda equina, it was cleared but my sensations werent right. Ive been referred to neurology.
Im torn between have i spent the last five years actually making it up for attention (despise hospitals with a passion) and there is something real happening.
Does anyone feel like this?
Yeah, @Nayla93, I think I went through a variation of Imposter Syndrome for a few years prior to my diagnosis. All the symptoms are so terribly non-specific, and I felt like I was a whiner. In a way, my diagnosis was an affirmation of all my complaining! I hope you don't have MS - it sucks. But I do hope you get some answers. Be well, @Nayla93.
could be. but to start somewhere, the best thing to do is to do an MRI with a contrast substance. also, throughout this process of analysis it is advisable to have a therapist with you to whom you can share all your moods and worries. a therapist to support you in this delicate stage. if I had also, 20 years ago, things would have happened differently...