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ljturner

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I havent been formally diagnosed with ms. Its just suspected at the moment. I keep looking at people's stories and it seems to come on gradually with lots of little symptoms. What I have came on the same day and the next day I couldn't walk anymore. Does this fit an ms diagnosis? Just so anxious to get back to normal bc it's been 2 months. I can walk but the heaviness is awful and I cant last a full day without fatigue. If i ever get back to normal again is the scariest thing, but i keep hearing people say it does happen so I'm keeping my Hope's up. Any advice during this interim period? Thanks
@Stephanie_Toles_Tennant

I am currently in the same boat somewhat! I am in the hospital on iv steroids after my symptoms started all of a sudden. I started with a bad migraine that wouldn’t go away. That progressed into right sided weakness, pins & needles in right foot, leg spasms, Charlie horses in right leg, right eye blurry with spots. Neurologist have listed it as probable MS flare up after a few lesions found on scan and have been treating with high dose steroids. There isn’t enough evidence to even concretely diagnose at this time and dr said it could take a long time. Feel like I am in limbo. After 3 days of steroids and other meds some of my symptoms are start to get better. With all the technology and science you think they would know enough about MS that they could find away to give us definitive diagnosis

@tumbleweed

@ljturner Hi there. This happened to me too except slightly differently, I had gone downhill over a year with my walking, was diagnosed with fibro 10 years ago so thought I was struggling there. Woke up one morning and couldn't walk at all, my legs wouldn't hold me up and had terrible vertigo etc. 8 months later I can walk a little but legs very heavy and hips don't move properly. I am just getting through tests at the moment, MRI's, 2 x lumbar punctures, nerve conduction test, lots different bloods. It's a long slow journey and I wish I could say you may just be fine soon but that's not necessarily the case. Limbo seems to be too long a journey and a scary one yes. The worst thing is not being able to determine the pace which is a hard thing!