#diagnosis - Shift.ms

8 Aug 2016 17:48Last reply 9 Aug 2016 10:41

First consultation since diagnosis

Tomorrow is my first consultation with the MS specialist since being diagnosed in May after 6 years of messing about and needless to say I am bricking it. It feels so real now and I have no idea what to expect. I'm hoping I'll be offered a DMT and have done plenty of research and feel happy with my ...

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@Spikelives

12 Aug 2013 14:35Last reply 30 Aug 2013 18:32

How long did it take to get your official diagnosis?

I have traced my first symptoms back 1989. I was officially diagnosed this past January. I went to different doctors and E.Rs over the years, but I was always told they had no idea what was wrong with me and that the issues will probably just go away.... UGH!! I now know that the different issues ...

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@Arwel

22 Sep 2012 06:14Last reply 19 Oct 2012 13:51

Confused about MS diagnosis

I am going through the process of "being diagnosed" at the moment and all indications are that it is MS, but the whole process has sparked a question amoungst hundreds of other questions that I am unable to rationalise. Maybe someone can help me answer one question. Today I am not diagnosed, tomorro...

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@Natalie8647

21 Apr 2017 19:32Last reply 26 Apr 2017 23:03

Pending diagnosis and scared

Hi everyone I am new to this page. I had A MRI last week and came back showing 6 lesions in the brain. I have abnormal reflexes as well. My doctor is saying it's pretty much MS due to the demyelination suspicions of the lesions however she needs to confirm with a specialist. Although this would va...

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@squishedmish81

15 Jul 2013 15:16Last reply 19 Jul 2013 14:07

Am I the only person between diagnosis and and an MRI?

Hello, So I got diagnosed with MS is April by a very good Neurologist based on a fairly nasty attack which left me numb/very very weak on my right side and unable to walk in February. He ruled everything else out with all of the other tests and while he couldn't find lesions on a standard MRI, he is...

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@Lizzy86

4 May 2016 08:51Last reply 6 May 2016 08:46

Coping with MS diagnosis 10 years on!

Hi, this is definitely not a rant, I just wondered if anybody else is feeling like this since diagnosis? I was just finishing school, and had a place on a hairdressers college course, when I started experiencing numb fingers and arms, which instantly divided my friend network, which I guess was sor...

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@Loretta_Marie_Pleasance

26 Feb 2019 06:24Last reply 31 Oct 2019 21:32

Late diagnosis

Hi I was diagnosed with MS March 18 aged 46 Although my consultant felt I was miss diagnosed with meningitis when 21 I have been prescribed tecfidera which seems ok And 5.000 vitamin D I have recently just started myself on milk thistle to help the liver

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@coleman1980

9 Feb 2020 07:26Last reply 26 Feb 2020 11:11

My diagnosis

I got diagnosed with ms in November of 2019 so as you can all imagine I am at the start of this journey of discovering ms and how it will affect me. Finding my new normal around what's best for ms and now working with my symptoms and learning to live with them know they are things that are what I am...

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@Georginey

7 Oct 2018 17:46Last reply 8 Oct 2018 12:06

Coping with diagnosis

Hi, I was diagnosed with MS a few weeks ago and I’m really struggling to cope with this all. I’ve always been a person who struggles with ups and downs emotionally and this has turned my world upside down. My family have been brilliant but as I’m single and still living at home I’m terrified I’m now...

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@Buckie1965

12 Jan 2021 19:24Last reply 13 Jan 2021 19:00

Older age diagnosis

Hi everyone I haven't been diagnosed with anything yet but I have an appointment with neurologist in a few weeks and to be honest I'm very worried. I'm showing symptoms of ms (muscle pain fatigue foot drop twitching cramps and more) but I am 55 years old and have noticed a lot of ms sufferers are di...

Belfast, United Kingdom

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@suewy

29 Oct 2017 18:33Last reply 4 Nov 2017 21:59

Advice on symptoms, awaiting diagnosis

Hi everyone, I am Sue, This is my first post. In am looking for some advice please. I have been treated for a herniated disc with nerve compression for over a year. After a repeat MRI scan I was told there is no longer any disc bulge. I do however have leg numbness, spacticity in knee and back of ...

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@tkta2017

24 Mar 2017 12:59Last reply 31 Mar 2017 01:45

How were you told your diagnosis

Hi, I've just joined this site as I have been reading up on a lot of your comments and found it very useful and friendly. I have a few questions and I'm hoping you could help, just generally feeling fed up of all the waiting and no answers. So was wondering what you guys might think. MS has never...

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@Kevin1786

15 Jul 2019 13:36Last reply 16 Jul 2019 17:34

new diagnosis

I wouldn't mind some advice from you all. My wife has just been diagnosed with MS and although she has yet to be given a treatment plan/medication, I/we have found that the diagnosis has raised more questions than it answers. I would love to know what I can do to make my wife's life easier and mayb...

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@highspirits

17 Sep 2016 16:54Last reply 20 Sep 2016 20:26

Dealing with diagnosis

Hey guys, I hope you're all doing ok. I haven't been on here for a while, perhaps as a way of trying to tell myself the MS wasn't really happening. I was diagnosed over a year ago but am still struggling to deal with the diagnosis, about my future and the unpredictability. I wake up most mornings a...

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@Sewing-chick

9 Jul 2016 09:42Last reply 15 Jul 2016 15:17

Best MS drugs soon after diagnosis

Should your neurologist be offering you the most effective MS drugs soon after diagnosis, before you have any evident disability? The opinion of doctors at Barts (a hospital at the forefront of MS treatment) is that they should. Here's what the doctor said on the Barts MS Blogspot today: " I was ...

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@melibu

25 Mar 2016 15:38Last reply 30 Mar 2016 04:28

Hi everyone :) maybe a diagnosis

My name is Melissa iv just recently realised im experiencing symptoms of MS. Iv been back and forth with doctors for over a year who all dismissed my symptoms as nothing, telling me i was depressed and fobbed me off. Recently in Jan of this year I was at work and started to get a migraine which I ge...

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@kateybash

20 Apr 2017 16:10Last reply 22 Apr 2017 12:27

Diagnosis without positive LP

Hi folks, just wanted to ask if a person can still be referred to an ms nurse if they have had lesions on the brain that are not diagnostic of MS with a negative lumbar puncture? I am due to go for my LP next week and symptoms of dizziness, burning pins and needles remain. I was told if it was pos...

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@boodle06

13 Feb 2013 18:16Last reply 19 Feb 2013 14:43

Do you think I may feel better with a diagnosis?

I wonder if I will feel mentally better when a diagnosis comes? Or will I because that will mean something else would have happened to me? I suppose I will have the support of a medical team well I hope I will. I wonder if they will tell me what I'm imagining about having ms is so far off the scale ...

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@dmt727

6 Jun 2018 11:22Last reply 7 Jun 2018 04:37

Diagnosis

Well saw my neurologist yesterday and he has given me a diagnosis of MS ! Really struggling emotionally today and not sure why? It’s not as so I wasn’t expecting it? So many questions going on in my head 😔 he is referring me to a MS Nurse. We did talk briefly about DMT’s but said to discuss with nu...

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@Houdini

31 Dec 2017 00:22Last reply 10 Jan 2018 18:40

Getting used to diagnosis :-/

Hi all, 5 weeks post diagnosis and start of DMT, Tecfidera. I knew on first symptoms in the shower 18 months ago of the water on my arm Feeling different, progressing to pins and needles and numbness in arm and hand. Fighting with GP to take me seriously that it was not a trapped nerve! And I am a n...

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