Just reading Little Red's post made me think about what someone mentioned to me the other day.
Reading some of the replies there seems to be a number of us who experienced some kind of trauma before the MS. So just thinking out loud, I thought I might ask the question and start it off.
In August 2011 I had a total thyroidactomy and right side parotidectomy, along time on the surgeons table I can tell you. April 2013 I started to show signs of what I now know where early indications of MS. It was suggested that while dormant the MS maybe triggered by some such traumatic event.
So, as I said, it's just a thought and something to mull over.
Best wishes
Paul
Reading some of the replies there seems to be a number of us who experienced some kind of trauma before the MS. So just thinking out loud, I thought I might ask the question and start it off.
In August 2011 I had a total thyroidactomy and right side parotidectomy, along time on the surgeons table I can tell you. April 2013 I started to show signs of what I now know where early indications of MS. It was suggested that while dormant the MS maybe triggered by some such traumatic event.
So, as I said, it's just a thought and something to mull over.
Best wishes
Paul
Although I was DX years ago, my problems started 3 months after my Dad died young, so I have often thought I wonder if that was the trigger for me.
Certainly an interesting thought.
Pam x
Cath x
And so finally after the longest wait my MS had taken a complete hold of me by this time, I was walking with the most extreme difficulty, I had a radical hysterectomy, lost part of my bowel, was left with chronic pelvic pain due to adhesions.
And finally my MS is living along side a pelvis that doesn't like movement, is in pain all the time, but I've always put off doing anything through the doctors, because neurologists and gynaecologists and cancer specialists don't like working together lol.
my poor GP
Polly xxx
will discuss with my neuro when I see him in a few weeks, also seeing the haematologist a day or two before that.
Won't really change the fact that I seem to be lumbered with it, sadly.
Polly xxx
That doesn't sound like much... but I had been told by a doctor in America (where I was living then) that there was nothing wrong with my gall bladder and the the pain (agony) was wind! They didn't even do an ultra sound.
Back in UK and still putting up with the pain as 'wind' I got obsructional jaundice due to the gall bladder. Was very poorly.
By the time I actually had it removed I was told it was 'chronically diseased but luckily no cancer'.
So yes I think your trauma theory is interesting.
(And shows how awful the American private healthcare system is!).
Pat xx
Jan x
Don