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I never thought of it that way, difference between sensory and motor. I was dx'd past 50 when the eyes got bad, had MRI and visual tests. However, neurological symptoms of some sort back to childhood. Weak hands in childhood. Then one eye got bad at 11 and weak hands got temporarily worse, recovered. Big attack at 17, dizzy, constipated, had to get out of college for a while. Weak, dizzy from time to time, was told by a doctor I had an MS walk, but not dx'd.
I had a complication, too, because I had another disease, porphyria, which has some neurological symptoms. That too was dx'd late, after MS. So were some of my symptoms really Porphyria? Probably, but I did have brain lesions, abnormal VER and Visual Fields leading to MS dx.
I am still walking in old age, and have actually improved hand eye coordination. I think this is due to the Swank diet 80% and various other health measures. My diseases forced me to eat well and wisely and to refrain from just about every vice. So I would say my motor condition improved after dx of MS and going on the Swank diet. I can get pretty unsteady if I eat saturated fat, so I know enough not to do it now. I had a setback breaking my knee when I fell downstairs last spring, due to numb feet, which are caused primarily by my third disease, Polycythemia Vera. I had some numbness before PV, but not to the extent I did after I got PV,
which I've had for about five or six years, it becoming more severe lately. But still walking.
So I never even thought about the difference between sensory and motor, as I was a dizzy dame from early adulthood onward, with spells of weakness that prevented steady working. Got through many years of teaching, however, before disability at 56.
When I went on the Swank diet, I think my hand and eye coordination improved and my dizziness just about left. In other words, I improved in the MS department, although neuro
symptoms of Porphyria (peripheral neuropathy) became apparent. So it's been an up and down ride!
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