New to Group
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:04 pm
Hi! I've just been diagnosed with MS in the past couple of months and am about to start on Avonex. I'll be 60 in April.
I had a bout with occipital neuralgia back in the early 1990s which they have now said was an MS relapse, although at that point no testing was done. It was a horrible two-year stretch during which the painkillers I was on had me almost walking into walls!
Last July facial paresthesia showed up as well as a problem walking any distance. Then the round of test after test began with the diagnosis finally being made in late January this year.
One of the things my neuro told me was that she thinks I may be able to come off it in 3 or 4 years as it is her opinion that MS relapses tend to slow down as one ages. Does that sound right?
I had a bout with occipital neuralgia back in the early 1990s which they have now said was an MS relapse, although at that point no testing was done. It was a horrible two-year stretch during which the painkillers I was on had me almost walking into walls!
Last July facial paresthesia showed up as well as a problem walking any distance. Then the round of test after test began with the diagnosis finally being made in late January this year.
One of the things my neuro told me was that she thinks I may be able to come off it in 3 or 4 years as it is her opinion that MS relapses tend to slow down as one ages. Does that sound right?