Hello everyone:
My MS history started in April 19, 2010, on my second daughter's birthday. I was still in a walking boot from a fall down the stairs and an ankle fracture six weeks prior when I was 5 months pregnant with my third daughter. I was about to start a training session, when I felt really dizzy, vertigo, and had double vision. It was so intense that I had to sit down. After a few minutes I regained myself and started talking, but my speech was very slurred. After that, extreme fatigue and blurry vision bothered me so much that I went to see my OB-GYN thinking that it was pregnancy related.
A week later, I went to the optometrist thinking that I needed glasses (I have never had vision problems before). My left eye was blind; 7/200 to be exact. He immediately referred me to a retinologist, who referred me to a neuro-ophthalmologist, who gave me the fabulous news that I had optic neuritis and possibly MS. He sent me for an MRI, and there it was, plaques in my brain. I did not know about MS until then, so I started to look for answers and information. After a round of Solu-Medrol, my vision improved, but I still have residual effects from it.
A month after my daughter was born, I started having walking difficulties, pain, migraines, numbness, itchiness, "bugs" crawling over me, etc. My neuro watched it for a month because he said it was possible that the heat (which I am now very sensitive to) and the rigorous of being a new mother might be to blame. On Labor Day, I fell down the stairs again. Did not break anything this time, thank God, and the neuro gave me another round of the solu juice. I started on Copaxone right around the same time.
I returned back to work at the end of September to find out that my once clever, clear, and quick brain was gone. I have lots of difficulty concentrating and forget things a lot.
Just before I returned to work, my husband got a phone call. It was a job offer in Germany. He's being a stay at home dad and student for the last 2.5 years. He started to look for work when we found out what I had and seeing how sick I had been this year. So, we are moving to Germany. Which means I am down to one job: my three children.
Well, that's pretty much in a nut shell. It's funny how having a chronic disease forces you to see things from a different perspective.
See ya all around.
My MS history started in April 19, 2010, on my second daughter's birthday. I was still in a walking boot from a fall down the stairs and an ankle fracture six weeks prior when I was 5 months pregnant with my third daughter. I was about to start a training session, when I felt really dizzy, vertigo, and had double vision. It was so intense that I had to sit down. After a few minutes I regained myself and started talking, but my speech was very slurred. After that, extreme fatigue and blurry vision bothered me so much that I went to see my OB-GYN thinking that it was pregnancy related.
A week later, I went to the optometrist thinking that I needed glasses (I have never had vision problems before). My left eye was blind; 7/200 to be exact. He immediately referred me to a retinologist, who referred me to a neuro-ophthalmologist, who gave me the fabulous news that I had optic neuritis and possibly MS. He sent me for an MRI, and there it was, plaques in my brain. I did not know about MS until then, so I started to look for answers and information. After a round of Solu-Medrol, my vision improved, but I still have residual effects from it.
A month after my daughter was born, I started having walking difficulties, pain, migraines, numbness, itchiness, "bugs" crawling over me, etc. My neuro watched it for a month because he said it was possible that the heat (which I am now very sensitive to) and the rigorous of being a new mother might be to blame. On Labor Day, I fell down the stairs again. Did not break anything this time, thank God, and the neuro gave me another round of the solu juice. I started on Copaxone right around the same time.
I returned back to work at the end of September to find out that my once clever, clear, and quick brain was gone. I have lots of difficulty concentrating and forget things a lot.
Just before I returned to work, my husband got a phone call. It was a job offer in Germany. He's being a stay at home dad and student for the last 2.5 years. He started to look for work when we found out what I had and seeing how sick I had been this year. So, we are moving to Germany. Which means I am down to one job: my three children.
Well, that's pretty much in a nut shell. It's funny how having a chronic disease forces you to see things from a different perspective.
See ya all around.
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I had a very demanding job and I'm glad is over. This is a new chapter in our lives and I want to get more time with my children and focus on me to manage my MS.
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