Hello slight_smile:
My Mum was referred to neuro after attending physio after the 3rd fall in about 5 years. Physio picked up abnormal reflexes in one leg.
Mum had horrendous back problems in 2011 that were attributed to vertebral slippage from facet degeneration, but she recovered after 5 months and returned to work full time.
Over the past 2 years she’s had to be careful to place her right foot when walking and uses a stick when out. She has avoided going places in case she can’t get to the toilet. For over a year she’s been coughing whenever she eats. She has what she calls “twitchy legs” in the evenings and terrible nerve pain in her legs and feet.
The neuro sent an email with MRI results last week saying that white lesions had been seen in spinal cord and brain that raise the possibility of MS.
Yesterday we saw the neuro and he showed us the pictures: one spot at neck level, another at chest level and white areas in the brain (corpus callosum, indicative of MS).
He is mystified by the radiologist report diagnosing MS in my Mum, at 76, and can’t quite accept it.
MS is not his field, so he’s referring her to a colleague whose subspecialty is MS. I was hoping she’d get started on treatment quickly but now we have another wait.
She’s 76…and had no inkling at all about MS. She didn’t see how the other pieces of the puzzle fit. I can see the coughing with eating and leg twitching, problems with thinking and concentration and bladder issues are parts of the MS puzzle, and Imentioned them to the neuro, as she hadn’t.
I wanted him to have a full picture so that she can get treatment to stop them getting worse.
I live with Mum. We lost Dad 18 months ago to a heart condition. I work full time as a nurse and am doing postgraduate study. To say there’s a lot going on is putting it lightly!
I just want to support and help her as best I can.
Thanks for welcoming us here today.
Good morning 
My Mum was referred to neuro after attending physio after the 3rd fall in about 5 years. Physio picked up abnormal reflexes in one leg.
Mum had horrendous back problems in 2011 that were attributed to vertebral slippage from facet degeneration, but she recovered after 5 months and returned to work full time.
Over the past 2 years she’s had to be careful to place her right foot when walking and uses a stick when out. She has avoided going places in case she can’t get to the toilet. For over a year she’s been coughing whenever she eats. She has what she calls “twitchy legs” in the evenings and terrible nerve pain in her legs and feet.
The neuro sent an email with MRI results last week saying that white lesions had been seen in spinal cord and brain that raise the possibility of MS.
Yesterday we saw the neuro and he showed us the pictures: one spot at neck level, another at chest level and white areas in the brain (corpus callosum, indicative of MS).
He is mystified by the radiologist report and can’t quite accept it.
MS is not his field, so he’s referring her to a colleague whose subspecialty is MS. I was hoping she’d get started on treatment quickly but now we have another wait.
She’s 76…and had no inkling at all about MS. She didn’t see how the other pieces of the puzzle fit. I can see the coughing with eating and leg twitching, problems with thinking and concentration and bladder issues are parts of the MS puzzle, and mentioned them to the neuro, as she hadn’t.
I wanted him to have a full picture so that she can get treatment to stop them getting worse.
I live with Mum. We lost Dad 18 months ago to a heart condition. I work full time as a nurse and am doing postgraduate study. To say there’s a lot going on is putting it lightly!
I just want to support and help her as best I can.