Hi.

[mjcolenc]

I haven't been to a doctor yet. Don't have any health insurance any more. Have to wait 3 months for my husband to get on to health program at his new job.

[mjcolenc]

My Hi post posted before finished typing. Sorry.

Any way, I do have Fibromyalgia and know the symptoms of that. I have done a lot of reading on MS. Think I might have it.

Have been having extreme weakness on left side of body. Have been dropping things some times, and some tremors every once in awhile. Have almost nightly pins and needles from my left foot to knee, and then numbness.

Ocassionally I get muscle spasms in left leg but they don't hurt. I've noticed if I stand with my feet together, arms at side and I close my eyes, I fall to the left. Today my husband performed the Babinski test, and my right foots toes curled downward. The left foot, my big toe came up and other toes spread out.

I know one shouldn't jump the gun and think the worst, but I can't help but think that I might have MS, and not having any health insurance at the moment, I can't go to a doctor.

One good think is that I have been able to stay on my high blood pressure medicine, my seizure medicine, my Fibro medicine and medicine for my thyroid/Hashimotos.

Thanks for reading.

[502E79]

Hi mj...,

It has to be hard holding back regarding the doctor visit... the cost of illness these days, especially MS is hard to digest.

And there always is the possibility that you may not be dx'd with MS!

Many members here have gone years without a dx or even thinking a sx that came and went.... was actually a precursor to MS. So a few months wait for coverage is a bump in the road in MHO.

I think others may urge a doctor visit ASAP, but I'm not one of them considering what you wrote. That said... there is very good advice available @ MSW... and open minds and hearts.

Welcome!

Jer