Your honest opinion please?
Between the ages of four and five I went through many traumas. One I actually got blisters on my groin and feet with a super high fever. I was like this for close to a month, after, I went on to being an active kid and went on to play outside and living like nothing had happened. About two weeks later a traveler showed up at my mobile home and after my brother assisted him in getting water for his dog, the man decided to give my brother the dog and left before we could stop him.
I loved that dog, she was playful and so adorable. Well, my love for her led to my next two traumas. Around April of 1990, I turned 5 in January of that year, we had a nice cool day so my parents decided to open the windows and I took that opportunity to tease the dog through the open window. I had been grounded because I didn’t want clean my room, I sat on the window sill and was calling the dog trying to play with her through the screen. Well, I leaned too much on the screen and next I was on the ground with a head and back ache. Yup, I feel out the window hitting my head and back first on the ground.
Well, I sure didn’t learn to behave and not tease the dog do much, two weeks afterwards, I went to give the same dog some treats. I bent over to place the treats in her dog bowl and she managed to get her chain around my neck. She was so hyper and enthusiastic that I went to feed/plag with her that she got more of the chain around my neck and the more she move the tighter the chain got around my neck.
I remember a few men getting the chain off my neck and going to the hospital to check for injuries. I swear my guardian angel may have been late but managed to protect me because after X-rays and a ct scan they gave me an okay and sent me home.
How in ‘92 we went to visit a family friend (my abuser but no one else knew) we had a car accident and I ended up with minor whiplash.
Well, I went through my entire school year, sick/injure. My senior year of high school, I missed so much school, I was so sick that I didn’t want to show up at school.
My first neurologist that started the process of diagnosing and treating my ms, attributed these past tramas to actually developing ms.
Now,please, I want your opinion and feedback. Did I develop ms that young, or did it stay dormate long enough to only develop after?
Well I will say this, I believe my MS was triggered by many car accidents I sustained over a 20 year period before I was diagnosed, they were all rear end collisions, before 2003 I was 100% healthy, active, athletic, didn’t get sick, after many collisions (not my fault), I blamed it as the trigger for ms for me
I got diagnosed because when I was able to work in 2002, I was part of the setup crew at a new Walmart opening in my city. That day ac was out and the building became so hot that I passed out. I finally went to my pcp and he finally after 15 years, decided to send my to an ENT. November of 2005, I had my first MRI. We a week later he called and over the phone told my mom “I’m not exactly sure what is wrong, Linda can have Lyme Disease, a brain tumor, or multiple sclerosis. I’m referring her to a Neurologist.” Five days before my 21st birthday (Jan. 16,)the first neurologist I ever saw me after a six hour wait. After analyzing the films he couldn’t be sure if I had ms or the tumor. On my birthday, he performed the spinal tap. At the time I was and still am, a large woman, and he punctuated my back 26 times with at 23 inch needle. He finally asked the neuroradiologist to try and he was able to finally get my spinal fluid cleanly. The other had blood with it and they couldn’t use that fluid to diagnose me correctly. All these puncture were without a local until the radiologist had his try. I was screaming/crying because of the pain I was in from the repeated trauma to my spine. Fast forward to now, now I’m down to my Freshmsn weight, I graduated from Purdue Global. Health wise is another matter, I have ddd of C6-C8.L2-S1 are so injured that every move I do is painful, but since we have so much pain, I usually ignore it until the pain is screaming for attention.