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@MicheleTz 

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I’m still in the process of testing, however my neurologist says I have MS based on scans that I’ve had since 2023. I suffered 3 strokes and they have done a number on me however only one of them was a leaking aneurism, which emergency surgery repaired. I had to learn to walk, talk and do all of that again, but I still have difficulty getting around and speaking without slurred speech. Since then my body has been deteriorating rapidly. After my scans in February of 2025, it’s been a doozie of pain, extreme fatigue, and a constant migraine. I’ve been on nerve blockers for a year and they only suppress the pain slightly. Has anyone else had strokes caused from MS? I know that the EMG showed severe damage in my non-stroke leg, and that I have a lot of lesions on my spinal cord and in my brain. I am not sure I understand what MS is and how to adapt my life accordingly. I am afraid that I push myself to hard, I’ve adapted to having a new normal in the past, but I’m not sure I’m ready to do it again.

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@Shanice 

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Slurred speech

Hi all. 7 years ago my first ms symptom was my speech slurring. 7 years on I feel like my speech has never been the same as before I got diagnosed. However everyone around me says nothings wrong with my speech but I feel like they don’t understand. Has anyone else been through the same? And did you...
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@Claire2022 

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Slurred speech and stress

Hi everyone. This is my first post. Thank you for all the support so far. I am feeling a little lost. I'm four weeks in to taking tecfidera. Hot flushes are daily but the most upsetting symptom is feeling not with it. This has got worse since the heat wa c e. Finding words. Brain fog. Having the e...
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@Rav_MS 

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Slurred Speech

What the reason for slurred speech in MS? I slur my words everyday. Surely there must be a fix for it #speech #slurred
London Borough of Ealing, England, United Kingdom
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@Florimonte 

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Greetings , hugs and salutations .

Hello beautiful people , I'm Frank Florimonte fro. Sanford , NC (originally from Bklyn NY) , but came down to chickenland after pandemic wiped out my family in NY. It's ok , they were against vaccines and rude with my MS . I've had MS for 25 years now - lost vision , couldn't walk, slurred speech ,...
Sanford, United States
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@jumpingJacks 

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Ashfall - A story of loss. The MS Edition

Ashfall “When the air turned against us, only the ones left untouched could carry what remained.” Prologue: When the Sky Breathed In It didn’t start with fire. There were no sirens. Just stillness. Then, the air changed. No scent. No color. But something in the air bent the light barely percepti...
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@Todayistheday 

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Supporting a friend with symptoms until diagnosis

A friend's clearly struggling with symptoms which range from tingling, numbness, heat patches to pain, cognitive impairment and fatigue, spasticity to trigeminal Neuralgia bladder and bowel issues recently too. Athough she has had an MRI, which a muscosceletal doctor has said looks normal, she is s...
London, United Kingdom
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@Shaa8766 

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Newbie living with MS

Hey guys! I’m new here. So one day, I woke up with slurred speech, my tongue was going sideways, the left side of my face felt icy and numb, and I was so exhausted. I went through a couple of long steps but I found out last month that I have MS; after a brain MRI with contrast. I had multiple white ...
New York, United States
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@emma34 

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has this happened to anyone else?

Hello newbie here, I got diagnosed with ms back in Dec when I lost my vision in my left eye, had mri snd lumbar puncture done. Fast forward to now on Tuesday night I started to get these really bad pains in my stomach on the right I done nothing but done hot water bottle well the pain got worse to S...
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@NatureDeb 

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My MS & pregnancy

Me & my MS "everyone is different" phrase neurologists used adfinitum, I KNOW!!! I wanted to scream at them 😫 NOT MS advice🙂 My MS tale started 17 years ago, taken to my bed feeling wanting to throw up & intense nausia all the time. I had a lot of the classic symptons aswell-couldn't walk unaided,...
Epsom, United Kingdom
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