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24 Jun 2025 02:59Last reply 24 Jun 2025 12:23

MS or not?

I need other opinions only I promise I won’t take your replies as a medical diagnosis…. I had an MRI a few weeks back that showed some lesions and what my DR said was CVS. He told me he suspected MS and ordered a spinal tap which said i had ogliconal bands present and another abnormal result. My ...

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@AlexanderM

18 Jun 2025 22:16 EditedLast reply 19 Jun 2025 14:14

Scared of disease progression even with DMT (long read)

I’m relatively new to this whole MS thing having gotten recently diagnosed and I haven’t had enough time to process this given that I’ve been distracting myself with work so much. To my detriment at times. My diagnosis has been a bit weird and quite dramatic but I’ll just vent here and hopefully s...

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@Phillip101

28 May 2025 02:06Last reply 28 May 2025 02:45

Frustration and fear

Hello, my name is Phillip and I’m new here at this site. A 63 yo male and have been suffering from MS symptoms serious since the 80’s. I blew them off for years, then in 2004 the symptoms started to increase. The would hit all of the sudden and then disappear for a while. First it was muscle cramps...

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@angela79

27 May 2025 19:55Last reply 28 May 2025 01:50

Im currently waiting to see a neurologist.

For those of you in the days before diagnosis did you ever have mild optic neuritis or eye problems My GP suspects i have Ms I have a pulling type of pain in one eye alongside blurred vision and peripheral vision loss and dull colours and face pain. The pain has never been severe but the symptoms ...

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@Lauren21

23 May 2025 11:56Last reply 23 May 2025 18:05

MRI post relapse

I have a scheduled MRI next weekend which is 6 weeks after symptom onset. I attended the eye hospital with suspected retrobulbar neuritis which is optic neuritis behind the optic nerve. However when I returned for a 2 week check up, the Dr who examined me said my optic nerve appears to be firing- wh...

@SammyVee

17 May 2025 13:51Last reply 18 May 2025 17:36

Speech

Hi Guys been told by docs regarding my MS that my speech is slurred i dont see it at all nor my mum. I’m fine !! i believe anyway anyone else speech due to MS affected? Mine is not at all but 2 Neurologists have said it in their notes!

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@AWAYWITHMS

16 May 2025 17:04 EditedLast reply 23 May 2025 20:00

Vision loss

Anybody experience vision loss at any point because of MS? I’ve been partially blind in my left eye since last year. I experienced optic neuritis late July 24’, did 5 days in the hospital on high dose steroids. Vision went from blurry to dim to dark. The iv steroid did little affect leaving my vi...

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@Gracie690

6 May 2025 12:50Last reply 6 May 2025 14:56

Worried i have MS

Hi all I hope you don't mind me posting here. Apologies if this is long but if i dont share my worries somewhere i might explode! I have suffered migraines all my life, however about 6 weeks ago I had a cluster and on the 3rd day started to get blurred vision as opposed to the usual aura and began t...

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@Johnwayne

1 May 2025 04:40Last reply 1 May 2025 13:32

Hi Everyone... I have had 14 months of unusual undiagnosed symptoms such as neurological pain, falling down episodes, pre syncope, blurred vision, stroke like Sensations, can't walk a straight line ever, Etc my doctor prescribed me pregabalin 100 mg a day to start.. I was wondering if anybody out here has taken pre-gablin for MS and or epileptic seizures.. and I was wondering if it worked for them and if there's any side effects please touch base back with me if you have thank you so much

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@anniespencer

30 Apr 2025 14:56Last reply 5 May 2025 19:26

Eye pain

Anyone suffer with eye pain but not optic neuritis? My eye goes through stages of pain on movement but the opthalmology clinic says it's not optic neuritis it's happened a few tea for a few weeks at a time in different eyes but after scans and tests they say my optic nerve is fine and my eyes are he...

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