Newly 24 year old Diagnosed with Relapsing-Remitting MS
Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 7:11 pm
Hi, I'm Luke, and I'm 24 years old. I was diagnosed with MS on April 4th of this year after going through bouts of double vision, slowed/slurred speech - in which I've never experienced before. After Feb-April, they did tests that includes MRIs, which showed a white lesion on the brain. I have applied for disability, since being denied medicaid. (No health insurance). Had to quit my job, and give up my car due to the vision problems, plus the added side effects of MS of fatigue etc...Still a shock to me really, but as I began to research I'm beginning to find that I may have had MS a lot longer, like all the way past high school years, than diagnosed. Next appointment with Neuro is July 2nd, he wants to do another MRI to see if the lesion has any activity etc...but I still find that thats long time to wait. I am on Rebif, I start the full doses 44mcg tomorrow actually. Hope I can find some help here. Thanks.