Hello, I'm new here..
Hello everyone, as the title suggests I'm new here. Although, I've been lurking for some time. I got diagnosed with MS last week after a lot of barking up the wrong tree. I'm a Police Officer and in 2016 I decided to apply to transfer to firearms. The fitness test is a bit harder for this but didn't worry me at all as I knew I could pass it - or so I thought. I discovered that I simply could not run any longer. I was in the Army some years before I was in the Police and had never struggled with running at all so off I went to my GP. Long story short, after four years doctors have investigated poss exertional compartment syndrome, various trapped nerves and spinal stenosis. MRI rued them all out. I gave up at one point when my GP told me to go away and live with this foot drop as it clearly wasn't cancer and the NHS can't waste money on more investigations. I got another referral to a neurologist and have had MRIs of my head and neck and in both scans there are lesions. I was supposed to have a lumber puncture but seem to have escaped that as they have given me a diagnosis without. Phew! I'm keen to get cracking on doing something about it now. I'm still very much frontline duties at work and I want to stay that way for as long as possible. They've stopped me driving on blues and no public order for now. I can live with these changes though. My symptoms are mild for now, left foot drop, weak left leg and an almost constant eye twitch which is very annoying. Anyway, that's me. hello all I hope you are well 👋 👍
Hello @thorpee. Welcome to the site I’ve only started posting recently too as I was the same spent years arguing with GP. At one point 1 year before I got my diagnosis I asked the doc if I had MS and getting a lovely reply of “no no no the symptoms don’t match”. Didn’t help that my starting symptoms was pins and needles so not as if she could see my issue. I have noticed a lot happen this way taking ages, a lot of wrong answers and but the test came back clear. Never good and it’s not the nicest in conditions but at least you are on the right track. I’m guessing your first lot of mri’s were on your legs or other non ms related scans. Other than that keep safe Pixie
@pixiedragon hello there, yes I should have said. The earlier MRI scans were of my leg and lower back and when they came back clear the neurologist discharged me. I went back to the GP and he pretty much told me to go away. Only when the weakness got worse I had to go back and insist. When the GP shrugs you off and you resort to Dr google it's terrifying as the symptoms are so varied and common to so many other problems. I don't know about you but when I read the letter and the diagnosis was in black and white half of me was gutted to have this but the other half was happy to finally know my enemy and determined to make things better.