My new blog about my MS and whatever else....

You wrote a very good story. I can relate. Before I was diagnosed I went to a reguler doctor because I kept going numb but I never figured nothing out this was in 1997 or 1998 a few years of that. My first time of having double vision scared me because I was on my way to work. Driving to work seeing two cars side by side and two stop signs. It lasted for like 2 days and went way. I went to a eye doctor who had my bloood sugar checked. The same thing with seeing the doctor about my numbness they thought it was my blood sugar.It always came out great.So about 2 years later in July of 2001 my eyes went to seeing double again. That is when I knew something can't be right. I went to a different eye doctor who told me I had 6th nerve palsy. If you look that up it will say double vision for multiple sclrosis. Anyhow he also refered me to a nerologist who was a quak. I mean he did one mri and said it looked like I had something on the base of my brain. he also sent me to nero eye specialists who told me the mri spots looked like Multiple Sclrosis. I went back to that nero and asked him if he thought it was m,s he said no and to come back in 6 months. That is when I got mad and got a nerologist referal out of this town who finally 6 months later on January 3,2002 told me I had m.s. I think I was more relived then anything after going through all of this.

Shaun, It's so odd that your eye doctor was the one who found the real problem. When I ge to the next part of the story, when I really got diagnosed, I started having double vision. For me it was a fourth nerve palsy (there are a lot of eye nerves) and I worked for an eye doctor at the time. The optometrist I saw diagnosed the palsy and sent to one of the MD partners, an ophthalmologist to get a better diagnosis. In the course of a week, I was tested for diabetes, muscle damage (though they didn't really think that was it) and all the neurological things: lupus, ALS, and MS. My eye doctor was relieved it was MS...he kept telling me it was the least bad of the options. Not sure I agree, but I do adore him for figuring it out. I later had my regular doctor tell me my ophthalmologist couldn't diagnose MS, but he did and he was right. Everyone else just did the tests to prove him right :)

Yeah my eye doctor did pretty much now I aggree I just had to find a nerologist that knew what he was doing to finally get diagnosed. That must of really helped you working with a eye doctor to figure things out a lot faster.

Thanks for the heads up and fixing the link....argh...I hate not being able to cut and paste....should switch to firefox....but I hate it too. Yeah, it's not like I really wanted to announce most of this stuff, especially since in the beginning they told me it was nothing. Stupid idiots!

Yeah, I was on here more before Thor got home. Now I'm roaming the countryside, holding tripods and the like. But, he's only home for 3 more weeks. tghen, I go back to serously lonely for awhile (til Haloween).

You'll be able to cut and paste when you get to 500 posts... :) (And I can't believe that I've already passed you in posts... oh, wait, yeah I can... ;) )

Thanks Sherri!! Really I have it a whote lot easier than most MS patients...I'm only miserable some times :)