I am 28 years old & since spring this year I have experienced really weird symptoms just out of the blue. I am otherwise fit as a fiddle, slim etc. I started to notice that if I walked for any considerable distance, that my legs would go wobbly & feel like they were going to go from under me. I find that a rest sets me right but this would happen whenever I walk a distance. Also my balance isn’t very good. And I can be lathargic. I have weak bowel (when I need to go I can’t wait) & bladder but have always had iffy bladder & in recent times have assumed it was due to having my baby. I saw a Neurologist in summer time & was due to have mri but then I fell pregnant. Since being pregnant I have felt awful. Achy/burning legs, tingling in feet & legs (not all the time, just every so often). I never had any of this before being pregnant?! I am so confused as Neurologist (and info online) told me pregnancy improves things, if anything. I feel worse! Is it just nasty pregnancy symptoms…a complete, horrible coincidence?? But also since I saw neurologist, my anxiety levels went sky high, day & night I was agonising over it & thinking my life as I knew it, was over. Could this anxiety make me worse?? I am now due to have mri after my new baby (mri doesn’t scare me but results do). I desperately want it to be something else. I wonder how I will cope if I have ms. I am so young & have a young family. What a horrible time to have a diagnosis. Having a baby is a lovely thing (and hard enough to adapt to) but I have this dark cloud hanging around. I still think about it everyday & worry but I am trying to be positive. I tell myself I will do WHATEVER it takes to make myself the best I can be & I will. I also feel positive when I hear other young mums have ms & live active lives with their children. I just can’t believe I’m in this situation. I am just looking for advice, experience & support.
Hello Mrs Whiskerson
Welcome to the boards. I was just having a browse through and noticed no one had answered your post…sometimes this happens. Busy time of year and all that
Its a long time since I’ve been pregnant…my two are in their 30s but I remember my second pregnancy was not a smooth journey. They do say women with ms have improved symptoms but there will always be exceptions.
Anxiety can be quite debilitating…you need to try and find ways to relax…it can aggravate symptoms. Its possible you may not even have ms.
Do your best to concentrate on the arrival of your new baby. There’s basicly nothing you can do until you’ve had the scan and get the results.
The more you relax the better you will feel…hopefully!!
Take care
Hi there,
I was just doing what blossom was doing and found this post.
I had strange symptoms like you since I was 23, after I had my son. 7 Years later I got the diagnosis of MS and only last month (two years later) they told me it is progressive. It is really scary and I am doing an access course to try and get to uni to do social work, I have moments when I think am I doing the right thing, but have friends that say because I am keeping positive I can beat MS and that MS will not beat me.
So if you are diagnosed with it, keep positive and do what polar bear and blossom said which is concentrate on your family.
Mel xx
I’ve got a little touch of OCD Mel…the blank spaces were bothering me…whats your excuse lol
I’m confused lol x
I’m confused lol x
Thank you all. Melm do you mean because I have wobbly legs sometimes, I would have the progressive kind if I have ms? What kind of lives do you all lead? How normal?
I just wish I didn’t even have to think about the possibility. :-/
Blossom, how are you now? So were you BETTER after your second pregnancy? Did your pregnancy do you no good?
Hi, just wanted to comment as don’t want you panicking you’re progressive…I don’t think that’s what Mel meant hun. I got a slight flare in symptoms when pregnant with my son who is now 4. I’ve been diagnosed since 24. I am now 33. I am a little worse now than I was but not massively and I still lead a normal life, even socialising too hun. I only went on medication may of last year following a few relapses and so far so good. If it is M.S the pregnancy could be causing these symptoms. Please don’t dwell too much. I adapted my life but still feel I have a good life and love my little boy to bits. He keeps me strong. Also if it is m.s you won’t know properly till after the baby is born and that includes the type. There’s another lady on here pregnant with m.s having a flare up since pregnancy. And I am not saying it is m.s but just responding hun. Take care xxx
Also follow the advice above…no point worrying now. Relax hun and enjoy your pregnancy xxx
Gosh I hope I will be able to socialise for the rest of my life. I am determined to lead a normal life no matter what. The whole thing scares me but I am trying to be so positive & hoping for the best possible outcome. It’s just not nice going thru a pregnancy knowing this mri may reveal something. The unknown is horrid. I pray it’s a pinched nerve or something.