Hi all,
My name is Paul, 46 years old, and was diagnosed 3 years ago, although my first sympton (Optic Neuritis) was c. 10 years ago. I then had an episode of loosing control of my right leg and was diagnosed with a few inactive lesions on my spine. Interestingly, both episodes were preceeded by high stress at work.
Have spent the last year getting to understand my symptoms better and luckily it hasn’t slowed me down too much. I’m left with a constant tingle down the leg and suffer, on an off, with dodgy vision. My main strategy at the moment is keeping healthy and managing my energy levels.
Probably still in denial about the hole thing and don’t necessarily talk about it much other than v.close family.
Looking forward to particpating in the forum.
You can also find me on instagram with the same username.
best regards
Paul
The stress thing is really tricky. I do feel that an over-stressed system is more susceptible to all sorts of things, from viral infections to crossed wires in the immune department. And there have been a couple of times when a sudden, very difficult situation seems to have put all my half-forgotten areas of MS damage into temporary but sudden overdrive. Very weird. But what is a person to do? Life is stressful and these things happen. I think your approach is the only one that makes sense: try to keep healthy and manage things as best you can, and that’s just what I try to do. For me, the other string to my MS bow has always been disease-modifying drugs. I don’t know whether that is an option for you or something that is already part of your approach?