what was your trigger
Hi!
I hope you dont mind me asking,but what do you consider was your trigger that resulted in an ms diagnosis,
Stress
Epstein barr virus- which includes gladular fever, the herpies complex, which includes cold sores, genital herpes even shingles or chicken pox is related to it.
Perhaps a car accident, which has included a whiplash injury
I hope you dont mind me asking,but what do you consider was your trigger that resulted in an ms diagnosis,
Stress
Epstein barr virus- which includes gladular fever, the herpies complex, which includes cold sores, genital herpes even shingles or chicken pox is related to it.
Perhaps a car accident, which has included a whiplash injury
With hindsight, I think I had it years without realising, but I don't think anything in particular sparked it off.
I didn't find out until after diagnosis that it was already in the family.
So I would just say: "Bad genes".
The processes that led to MS could have begun years before I noticed any symptoms, and certainly years before I was diagnosed.
It could have been a ticking time bomb since conception.
Tina
I agree with Tina - I think that the MS has been present all my life, but it took stress to bring it to the surface.
Luisa x
At 19 I started to get headaches so bad I cried in pain,with that I got complete numbness all down the left side of my face,pain,and my left side of my face drooped and slurred speach,dizzyness/vertigo..I put this down to taking the female pill so I stopped taking it and the symptoms continued.
Now looking back it apparently was MS symptoms.I went from being fit,running around playing football to what I am today.
So no I didnt have stress,my life was very good,even over the years I still had a darn good life,I worked and done volunteer work.
Nope,sorry there is no trigger and no no one in my family have it and my twin sister is MS free.
Charlie,x
I had weird symptoms like dropping to the floor unexplained, types of fit like symptoms, shakes, weakness, then ON, numbness and major fatigue, then diagnosis.
A great deal of unexplained happenings quite a good few years beforehand but never explained, so I think now Ive had ms for a lot longer pre diagnosis.
With me I would say stressful times probably masked ms symptoms yet in another way highlighted them. Masked in that I had a lot to deal with, then highlighted when they never left me. Does that make sense?
bren
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Stress over the past 10 years has not helped it.
Wendyxx
that year i overdid things big time resulting in my dx a year later.
my auntie had ms in the 1960's.
my neuro nodded to every one of these when i told him but said it only meant that i was more prone to ms.
carole xx
I took quite unwell after I had my wee boy - this was put down to a virus although all the tests for MS were conducted (unknown to me).
One year later the exact same condition returned and I received my diagnosis of MS.
My consultant at the time said it was common for woman to develop symptoms after having a baby???
Jo
Due to extensive lesions, the Neuro said I could have had MS for years but who knows!
Arrived home with gastric discomfort which was diagnosed as peritonitis ,a bowel resection, followed by 10 weeks off work,was (eventualy) diagnosed as having PPMS.
Who knows?
Alison
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For me I can point it to Chicken Pox that I got from my nephew when I was 20 years old. Who knows though? Was that the trigger' reacting to a certain type of gene that I had? All I know is that from that point onwards there has been a slow slippery down hill curve with more and more symptoms.
Marty
Before MS - l was physically very fit and well - l have never drunk or smoked - can't say l have ever done anything to compromise my health - so nothing to blame it on. l have taken high dose vit d3 for the last 3yrs - as l have osteo- arthritis in my hip/knee/ankle - and l did fall and fractured my ankle - this is my 'good leg' not the ms one - which justs hangs there all floppy. Since taking a highdose vitd3 20.000ius for over 2yrs - now down to 10.000ius my bone-density has improved and my vitd3 levels are higher but still not as high as they should be. When first tested they were rock bottom. Now they are about 98 [ Need to be 175/225]
So its keep taking the tablets and l use a sun-bed occasionally - and try to get as much sunshine as possible.
F.
Even as a child I was always tired and not well so I did badly in school because of this.
I had my first real attack when I was 20 but I do feel it has always been there.
Stress and upset seem to help towards with relapses now tho. I guess there is no real answers to MS yet its so complex.
Looking back, I had what could've been the first symptoms from early childhood - very weak bladder, total inability to control urgency. I definitely won't tell you the story of the sink in my bedroom...
I think my first adult relapse/batch of symptoms was triggered by an operation I had in 2005 - was supposed to be a fairly routine op, under general, to remove a large lump of scar tissue (a 10 year old injury) on my hip/buttock. The op was much more complicated than expected and the surgeon had to do an awful lot of digging around. I (and neuro agrees) believe that the trauma to my nervous system during the op triggered what had been lying dormant. My right big toe went numb the day after the op, then over the course of the following months the numbness spread upwards and all the other niggles reared their ugly heads. That was the beginning!
KIMOSABY,
SMALLPOX VACCINATION
GEORGE
I went to University, but I was sure that I didn't know what my what 'diagnosis' was? It was (about 39 when I first discovered 'MS' - I'm 56 now) - I 'read' the MS websites but I don't know what 'caused' it ?
Marcus.
I recovered fully but when I had my 2nd daughter when I was 23 my thyroid stopped working at all. I got over that but then again at probably age 28 I had about 6 weeks of total debilitating fatigue and doc thought I had glandular fever again. My arms were weak and I was pathetic. The blood tests didn't give a reason. I've often had unexplained month long 'extra-tired' times but never so bad as that original one until March 2011. Then, the bloods showed very low lymph and platelets but no explanation.
Then wham, in November, the neurological stuff started big time and I had a full 2 month 'attack' of very MS like symptoms. I've improved hugely since New Year but have never recovered properly: I'm still spazzing, jerking, more tired, buzzing, prickling, twitching, burning, weak, weird feeling skin.
Best Wishes all,
Moira
However,I was born and brought up in Scotland.
I do bottle things up A LOT.So stress maybe?
Pure bad luck anyway.I try not to think along the lines of 'why me?'.It's a waste of my time and energy to do so.I've got it and it won't go anyway,no matter what I do.I try and ignore it when I can but I don't fight it.There's no point.
Brenda x
I'd like to thank you all for being so candid. its been very enlightening and is very important, to guage an accurate picture of contributing factors. So thank you again.
I'm tending to blame a misaligned atlas, candida and a tank full of goldfish.......