Hi Cassidy and Welcome! This is an extremely supportive bunch with lots of good information. I can relate to the "age" thing. Was diagnosed at 47 but think it actually began in 1976 after the birth of my third child when I developed optic neuritis and again in the other eye two years later.

Due to numbness, tingling, footdrop, etc., my MRI showed the lesions in my brain and spine, so the diagnosis. Also have fibromyalgia and just recently developed lymph oedema in my feet/ankles/legs from immobility. I'm now 63 with three kids and six grandkids and live alone. The ms has progressed pretty rapidly in the past few years so am now in a wheelchair. Tried the injectables with horrible side effects. I've been on LDN for over two years.

Are you by any chance in PA? I too have been going to a general neuro and would really like to hear what an MS specialist has to say. There aren't any in the immediate area, so I'm looking around. If you want to PM me, feel free.

Take care and hope to get to know you better.

hi cassidy!

i was dxd later in life, too. i should say, i was correctly dxd. i remember my first sx when i was in ninth grade. and my first exacerbation occurred in my mid-twenties. i was misdiagnosed with something else, though. it wasn't until my second exacerbation 25 years later that i was given the MS dx.

i hear ya about never being sure what is ms and what is aging. frankly, i prefer to blame it on ms!

zia

Hi Cassidy, nice to meet you. I, too, am new to the forum, however, not new to MS. Dx'ed in 1993 at age 22. It must have been quite a shock to be dx'ed at 60, I can imagine. Hope to talk more!