Finally got a doctor!
After about 10 years of my parents bitching about me needing a general practitioner-I finally got one! she is in Winooski & she seems really great. i definitely recognize her as a coop-er.
unfortunately, the thing i have been dreading seems more real now. my pops has MS & the symptoms usually come out in the late 20's-guess who is 29? that's right, me! and my leg has been numb for months now. she said that i have to go to the nuerologist to get a MRI to see what is up since that is one of the symptoms of MS. dammit! i think i may put off the appt for a little while until i feel like i can handle whatever they throw at me. just being put in the MRI tube freaks me out. i'm going to start going to a therapist that Meredith recommended to me. Maybe i can discuss my concerns before making the appt.
either way, it will be good to know, not that you can totally isolate that anyone has MS. they kinda do a checklist, that if you have a certain amt of symptoms, then you have it. Autoimmune diseases are weird like that & are probably a million different diseases categorized as one thing.
Updates to come...
unfortunately, the thing i have been dreading seems more real now. my pops has MS & the symptoms usually come out in the late 20's-guess who is 29? that's right, me! and my leg has been numb for months now. she said that i have to go to the nuerologist to get a MRI to see what is up since that is one of the symptoms of MS. dammit! i think i may put off the appt for a little while until i feel like i can handle whatever they throw at me. just being put in the MRI tube freaks me out. i'm going to start going to a therapist that Meredith recommended to me. Maybe i can discuss my concerns before making the appt.
either way, it will be good to know, not that you can totally isolate that anyone has MS. they kinda do a checklist, that if you have a certain amt of symptoms, then you have it. Autoimmune diseases are weird like that & are probably a million different diseases categorized as one thing.
Updates to come...