Early Symptoms of MS?
I write articles about my life and my disease which is multiple sclerosis. I used to put them on different e-zines on the internet. I stopped writing about 5 years ago. I had some disappointments in my life and I just didn't feel like sharing my life anymore with other people.
I write articles about my life and my disease which is multiple sclerosis. I used to put them on different e-zines on the internet. I stopped writing about 5 years ago. I had some disappointments in my life and I just didn't feel like sharing my life anymore with other people.
Now, I'm going to start writing this blog again because I think I have something to tell people with multiple sclerosis. I think my writing also helps newly diagnosed people so they understand what can possibly happen to them. I also have to admit that it's cathartic for me to write about my health.
I was diagnosed in July of 1991. Now that I know the symptoms of MS I can date it back to at least 1976. In hindsight, in '76 I might have had symptoms of MS but I knew nothing about the disease. Who would think they had Multiple Sclerosis because you were urinating a lot and didn't like heat situations. I wasn't dying so you just blow those things off. I think a doctor might call you a hypochondriac!
I was diagnosed in July of 1991. Now that I know the symptoms of MS I can date it back to at least 1976. In hindsight, in '76 I might have had symptoms of MS but I knew nothing about the disease. Who would think they had Multiple Sclerosis because you were urinating a lot and didn't like heat situations. I wasn't dying so you just blow those things off. I think a doctor might call you a hypochondriac!
Back in the late '70s, my MS symptoms were so infrequent that if they were symptoms I didn't bother with them. An example of this was 1976 at junior college. One week I was running to the restrooms to urinate after each class. I was drinking a lot of beer back then so I thought it was just the result of drinking too much beer the night before. However, I do remember saying this to myself on one of my trips to the toilet, "I wonder if I could have diabetes?"
Now I didn't know anything about diabetes but I'd heard or read that people with diabetes urinate a lot. It's difficult to determine if my urination problems that week at junior college were MS or something else? Looking back, I think it probably was an early sign of MS but I didn't know MS from brain surgery. I was enjoying my new life as a college man. Now that I know what I know it could have been an exacerbation that lasted just one week.
Now I didn't know anything about diabetes but I'd heard or read that people with diabetes urinate a lot. It's difficult to determine if my urination problems that week at junior college were MS or something else? Looking back, I think it probably was an early sign of MS but I didn't know MS from brain surgery. I was enjoying my new life as a college man. Now that I know what I know it could have been an exacerbation that lasted just one week.
Scooterjon
