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Old 10-02-2006, 05:51 PM #1
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what would be the "average age of dx, and what is the oldest at dx that anyone is aware of?,,,thanks in advance
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I think average age of dx is between 20 and 40.

The oldest age of diagnosis? Ummm.... on autopsy. Many many people were diagnosed after death on autopsy when they discovered their lesions then.
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I was 2 months short of 40.
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I was 43 when dxd PPMS. The docs at Mayo told me they had initially dxd MS in patients as old as their 70s.

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The oldest age of diagnosis? Ummm.... on autopsy. Many many people were diagnosed after death on autopsy when they discovered their lesions then.
I'd have to do some digging to figure out the prominant Neuro in the US that confirmed this, but according to him, apparently 8% - 10% of the general population has MS and is never dx until autopsy. So you are correct!

I have heard of people dx in their mid-fifties, but that was the oldest living persons that I've personally read of.

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doc is leaning that direction, i think he is nuts...at almost 56....with no real sx (not explainable in another way....) thanks!
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There are lots of us around who were dx'd in our fifties. I got a surprise dx at 52 and had probably had MS for 30 years.
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DX at 42 but I now know I had it at 39.
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Dx'd at 47
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