How far back can you trace your symptom?
Hey, people. It's been a while but I'm feeling introspective and have been thinking about my childhood a lot recently. With the 20/20 hindsight goggles I can clearly see that I started experiencing symptoms when I was a junior at primary school. I can only be sure because the pins and needles in my right leg suddenly started happening one day when we were sat cross-legged on the floor for morning assembly but the oldest kids - 10/11 - sat on benches, so I couldn't have been that old yet.
Since that day, I still can't really sit cross legged.
My insomnia also started at primary school but secondary school is when that really got its moment to shine.
I was maybe 14/15 when I first noticed the l'hermitte's, 17 when I started having dizzy spells and spasms in my arm and 18 when I had the ON attack that led to diagnosis.
It had always been a running joke that I was clumsy and that bits of my body would twitch or shake - I'm looking at you, Disco Leg - but it had never occured to me that they were in any way linked.
The very dea of Multiple Sclerosis came out of nowhere: I'd heard of it but all that I knew was that it involved wheelchairs so it never had any relevance to my life. Who knew that it would become the most relevant thing in my life?
Hi there, funny you should mention that; I always thought that my diagnosis (3 years ago) came out of the blue; but one day I remembered that I had an episode of L'Hermittes sign 22 years ago! I guess it can be easy to attribute everything to our diagnosis. I like that you refer to this thing as the most relevant, and not the most important! Have a good day :-)
@highheeledfagin , my earliest symptom was in my early teens, or it may have been even further back, when I got migraines. I know, are migraines connected with MS. Well, there is a link, both are not yet understood and both are incurable. But, my migraines stopped in my late 20s, not long before I acquired a Footdrop problem......