Hi I have been thinking back to my first MS symptom. It was labyrinthitis (room spinning vertigo) and I had nausea. I saw my GP and she put it down to an ear infection at the time. My neuro thinks this was my first MS relapse.
Do any of you guys remember your first MS symptom, was it a relapse or a symptom ?
Do any of you guys remember your first MS symptom, was it a relapse or a symptom ?
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JBK
she passed away and then i started to notice my pins and needles.
like an idiot i googled it and dr google diagnosed me with peripathetic something or other which could result in amputation of my feet.
so i went to a real doctor and started on the merry go round of ms diagnosis.#
ah well, my feet are still attached!
carole x
Kate xx
Mom and Dad had gone away on holiday, went shopping to asda n nearly blacked out. Vision went, legs felt numb and I felt like I was on a rollercoaster. Dr said it was vertigo. Then I started getting dizzy all the time and getting numb legs. The dr didnt want to refer me to a neuro so I three a paddy and said I would go private which seemed to work.
sam xx
Again, with hind sight, there were other things during those 20 years but none of them particularly serious or significant enough to do anything about until those numb legs.
ellie
I had a bout of labyrinthitis in 1972, it was eventually diagnosed (by 3rd GP) as inner ear infection.
Skip forward to 1994 had a full blown relapse, double vision, "eclectric shocks" numbness and pins and needles in various parts of body.
Neuro at the time said he didn't think it was MS! But it wasn't syphilis!
Skip forward again to 2004, had definitive relapse, paid to see Neuro privately as didn't want to wait 6 months again to see one
on the dear old NHS and after examining me he said he would need to do some tests but yes it probably is MS.
Deep joy!
At last I had a lable I could put on the "monster"!
Take Care all!
Steve.
didn't mean to post anon :-/
Sue x
Christmas 1992. I knew what I wanted to say, but when I went to speak nothing came out. We were selling our house at the time and it made things very difficult trying to speak to our solicitor!
At the time I was really scared I was going mad but was too embarrassed to tell anyone and didn't see my GP. We didn't have the internet then (ahhh, innocent days!) and I had absolutely no idea what MS was.
There followed many years of various different sensory symptoms and I forgot all about that incident until after dx, when the penny finally dropped - "Ohhh! That's what that was!"
I had sooo many years thinking I was imagining my symptoms, occasionally visiting the GP but, surprise, surprise, things clearing up after a few weeks. One time, my GP actually told me "don't worry ... it's NOT MS". In my naivety/stupidity I remember I even cancelled a neuro appt because the numbness had gone away!
So when I was finally dx in 2008 I was a kinda relieved to know I'm not a hypocondriac!
Emma x