I am new here and wanted to say hi and give people a little bit about myself.
I'm 24 years old and the mother of 2 wonderful sons ages 22 months and 8 months old. Love my sons to death even if they do make me go crazy some days.
My oldest was actually with me the day that I had my first onset that lead me through 4 months of doctors trips and waiting to come to my diagnosis. It all started over 2 days worth of severe headaches. I thought that they had subsided and that I was fine when I took my son on his first trip to ChuckECheese. While I was there, my vision started to have problems and I had slight vertigo. (by the way, this is one of the worst places for this to happen, although I do look back and laugh over it today thinking about it.)
I managed to safely get us home and the following day I was having double vision. I couldn't drive anywhere so I had someone take me to my primary care physician who couldn't find anything wrong with me. On that note, the following day I went to an eye doctor who sent me in for an MRI due to signs of problems with my right eye. The results showed signs of the possibility of it being MS.
From there, I waited until February for my first trip to the neurologist. When she looked over the disk I brought in she was pretty certain that it was indeed MS but wanted a spinal tap to confirm it. I had the spinal tap on March 18th then got the results on the 22nd. She confirmed that yes it is indeed MS.
Since then, I have had some episodes that have truly terrified me. She wants me to have more tests done but we honestly will have to see what happens as finances are already tight with two babies.
On the plus side to all of this, I am going to meet up with a member of Shared Solutions today to learn how to take my Copaxone that arrived earlier this week. I am hoping it all works out and gets me at least most of the way back to where I was last year this time.
I'm 24 years old and the mother of 2 wonderful sons ages 22 months and 8 months old. Love my sons to death even if they do make me go crazy some days.
My oldest was actually with me the day that I had my first onset that lead me through 4 months of doctors trips and waiting to come to my diagnosis. It all started over 2 days worth of severe headaches. I thought that they had subsided and that I was fine when I took my son on his first trip to ChuckECheese. While I was there, my vision started to have problems and I had slight vertigo. (by the way, this is one of the worst places for this to happen, although I do look back and laugh over it today thinking about it.)
I managed to safely get us home and the following day I was having double vision. I couldn't drive anywhere so I had someone take me to my primary care physician who couldn't find anything wrong with me. On that note, the following day I went to an eye doctor who sent me in for an MRI due to signs of problems with my right eye. The results showed signs of the possibility of it being MS.
From there, I waited until February for my first trip to the neurologist. When she looked over the disk I brought in she was pretty certain that it was indeed MS but wanted a spinal tap to confirm it. I had the spinal tap on March 18th then got the results on the 22nd. She confirmed that yes it is indeed MS.
Since then, I have had some episodes that have truly terrified me. She wants me to have more tests done but we honestly will have to see what happens as finances are already tight with two babies.
On the plus side to all of this, I am going to meet up with a member of Shared Solutions today to learn how to take my Copaxone that arrived earlier this week. I am hoping it all works out and gets me at least most of the way back to where I was last year this time.
"...the joy of the Lord is your (my) strength." Nehemiah 8:10
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