Have been reading the forums since getting diagnosed a couple of months ago, and thought it was time to introduce myself...
I was dx'd with fibromyalgia in 1995. Started with a "mystery illness " that lasted a month, caused pain, flu-like symptoms, and extreme fatigue and didn't respond to any of the antibiotics prescribed. After I was finally able to get up off the couch again, would have bouts of those symptoms again, especially before major weather changes. Saw a rheumatologist and was dx'd with fibro. I work in health care and would get to hear others describe their fibro symptoms...and they rarely sounded like mine, especially because my symptoms would come on strong, but when they were gone, they were truly gone. Then, after a full year of NO fibro symptoms, I had a wierd attack in which my leg refused to respond to my mind, and my eyes started doing a weird "stop action" thing, which led to the MRI, which led to finally being dx'd with MS at the ripe old age of 65. The 'funny' thing is, that I lived with someone with MS for several years, and I kept saying "Are you sure you don't have fibro, because your symptoms sound just like mine."
Duh...the reverse never even occurred to me.
I'll be starting Tysabri next month.
So thank you for all the help your posts have given me while I was trying to wrap my head around this new diagnosis...and how the symptoms have seemed to have speeded up in the past six months. Think I am finally out of denial and into acceptance...
I was dx'd with fibromyalgia in 1995. Started with a "mystery illness " that lasted a month, caused pain, flu-like symptoms, and extreme fatigue and didn't respond to any of the antibiotics prescribed. After I was finally able to get up off the couch again, would have bouts of those symptoms again, especially before major weather changes. Saw a rheumatologist and was dx'd with fibro. I work in health care and would get to hear others describe their fibro symptoms...and they rarely sounded like mine, especially because my symptoms would come on strong, but when they were gone, they were truly gone. Then, after a full year of NO fibro symptoms, I had a wierd attack in which my leg refused to respond to my mind, and my eyes started doing a weird "stop action" thing, which led to the MRI, which led to finally being dx'd with MS at the ripe old age of 65. The 'funny' thing is, that I lived with someone with MS for several years, and I kept saying "Are you sure you don't have fibro, because your symptoms sound just like mine."
Duh...the reverse never even occurred to me.
I'll be starting Tysabri next month.
So thank you for all the help your posts have given me while I was trying to wrap my head around this new diagnosis...and how the symptoms have seemed to have speeded up in the past six months. Think I am finally out of denial and into acceptance...
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