About 4 weeks ago now one of my funny headachs started, no big deal had them before. Yea I noticed that things to my left didn't look right kinda hard to see unless I look right at them again nothing new benn told it was nothing to worry about possabile a mild migrane. They useally don't last long few days at most maybe on and off for a week. Well this time the funny headach was alltle worse and my vision got worse kinda fuzzy had to concintrate it has been hot hear I just been over doing it again. Then came the double vison mostly on the left but more to the front well this got so bad one day while I was at work I cut my day short and asked the wife to take me to the clinic, she knew something was wrong I don't go to the doc unless I am diein or she makes me. O did I mention the dizzy world won't stop moving? Well I was figureing I had some ear infection and possable retnal damage from the some kids playin with a lazer a while back. We get in rather fast was a slow day at the walk in clinic Doc came in looked me over ask a few questions standerd stuff. Of courec I got the same look about my vision comeing and going fuzzy to the left stuff seen that before. Then he said well something is not right would you be willing to get a CAT scan to be sure nothing wrong in your haed? Humm ok basic over kill so he calls it in and we walk next door to the ER and they get me in wow this place is dead at 6:45 pm well the report comes in right away before the clinic closed and it said the was an anomoly near the optic nerv and recomended an MRI with trace. Well that would take a day or two to get in so we went home The next night I get a call the doc had consulted two more radiologists to confirm all there agreed with the location and simtoms they need a better look can you come in on thursday? By now it was double everything all the time. Been thru an MRI before no biggy fore me except it so dang cold in there. Next day the report comes back and I get a call and am told the report sugests MS and to come back to talk to the doc. When we read the report and see the films the wife and I knew. We started some research and it was like a light came on, O so thats what been going on, that is a simtom? etc etc. Now I may not be the sharpest pencile in the box but I am no dumby and the wife is real smart and works with disabled pepole her whole life. I just did not realize how suttle the singns could be. O what I first thought was a type-o I figured out, it said 17 leasions in 7 reagions. I have used the phrase "it feels like my brains wraped in a wet towel" for years and when I try to think back it was my mid school years that I first remimber that. My first reaction was relife actually at least now I had a reason for those odd days I would have, some days I could not walk straight or would almost fall over turning a courner, some day I couldn't think at all, others it was just hard to see detail, and I was right when I said it felt like a wire lose in my brain. Well the prednosone is helping some but the vision is only soso and the funny stinging headache just will not go away yet. I did go see an Opthomoligist I set that up right after I had the CAT scan to be safe not much he can do but I got a base line and his opinion confirmed the MRI and gave me some advice on how to get by and what signs ment I need to come see him asap. Now it is staerting to sink in the more I learn the more I realize I have had MS just didn't know it. I had been raised to find away to get things done I wounder how much of that "learning disability" they said I had as a kid was Cognition problems.
I am 43 YO now and been uninsured for years as well as very under employed. I know I need to see a Nerologist but am frustrated as to how to find a good one besides how to pay for it. These last few days have been a real kick in the gut I was just starting to think there was the end of the tunnel to find out it's an on comeing train yet again. I know it not the end of the world just a bump in the road. It just been a very bumppy road aroud here and I already feel like I am letting my wife down because I can't find a more steady payin job with bennies.
Does anyone have advise on what I can do to help with the long turm expenses? I currently drive and spend time outside for work it not hard work and only pays ok some weeks good depends on the number of jobs I get. At least I have a loving wife that knows what to expect and is fully qualified, she spent 20 some years in a facility for severly disabled pepole so this would be a cake walk for her. I just wish she didn't have to she needs time off too.
Sorry for being so long winded, I just really don't have any understanding pepole to talk to except my wife and I bother her enough already. Thanks for reading and God Bless.
I am 43 YO now and been uninsured for years as well as very under employed. I know I need to see a Nerologist but am frustrated as to how to find a good one besides how to pay for it. These last few days have been a real kick in the gut I was just starting to think there was the end of the tunnel to find out it's an on comeing train yet again. I know it not the end of the world just a bump in the road. It just been a very bumppy road aroud here and I already feel like I am letting my wife down because I can't find a more steady payin job with bennies.
Does anyone have advise on what I can do to help with the long turm expenses? I currently drive and spend time outside for work it not hard work and only pays ok some weeks good depends on the number of jobs I get. At least I have a loving wife that knows what to expect and is fully qualified, she spent 20 some years in a facility for severly disabled pepole so this would be a cake walk for her. I just wish she didn't have to she needs time off too.
Sorry for being so long winded, I just really don't have any understanding pepole to talk to except my wife and I bother her enough already. Thanks for reading and God Bless.
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