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I find it odd that if there are no lesions on your
brain that the doctors have determined that you now have MS. I have been
under the belief that lesions on the brain 'usually' is why the diagnosis
changes from TM to MS.
I have a sister 3 yrs younger than myself who
has MS. Hers is the slow moving kind and she was officially diagnosed back
in 1991 but feels she had it for many more years than that. In 1991 she
had her second 'attack' and the MRI at that time found the brain lesions which
were not in her first MRI a few years prior to that.
{{{ Hugs to you}}} and a listening ear from all of
us.
Heather in Calgary
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Subject: Re: [TMIC] Re: (OT) Re:
tmic-digest Digest V2006 #185
Thank you very much for your reply!! As I was
saying to one other member who emailed me directly, I don't plan on checkin
out just yet. I am at a loss as to where to go from here and what future life
will be like. And I am looking forward to all the support I can get. Thank you
for the encouragement.
I don't get offended very easily. I was just
wanting to know I guess how much people really discuss their disability issues
here. (not to get into the scrabble myself, but I completely understand why
one would only type in caps as I currently have lost most of the feeling in
half of both my hands. Leaving numbness from middle finger to
pinky. This makes it extremely difficult to hit that shift key for
capitalizing words. I keep making mistake after mistake but just keep pluggin
along) :-)
I currently am in steroid treatments. I was in
the hospital the past couple days and now will be an outpatient. Then
home steroid treament. After that they will discuss long-term MS care
with home injections. I don't know much about MS or its care. I
have cried much the past 48 hours which I'm sure most of you can relate.
I currently have partial paralysis from the ribcage down in both legs allowing
me to only walk a small distance. And like I said, has begun to work
down my arms and through my hands. My lesions on my spine currently are
at C5 when before 5 years ago they were at T5 to T7. One blessing is
that the CAT scan on my brain came out clean and there currently are no
lesions. Though I do not understand why prognoses was made just for
having two spinal attacks. I am believing for a recovery. And I
assume that the rest is just taken one day at a time. I know that each
person is unique in their disabilities and symptoms and these diseases are
just unpredictable. I have experience various other symptoms from time
to time about 6 years ago that could have related to MS. Like twitches in
face, various numbness in arms and legs and even had my whole tongue go numb
for two weeks (that was horrible). So now I guess I will go forward in
the learning stages of what different care options there are. I have not
a clue.
Have a wonderful night everyone.
God
Bless,
Michelle
Bothell, WA
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