It never feels real for me. Even with all the shots, etc. No matter how many times I've heard, "yep, you have MS" from docs.

Then again, I'm still learning to deal with this thing. I have been through the cycle of grief a lot this past year. Somehow I manage to keep going. My hubby says it's cuz I'm stubborn.

When does it feel real? For me, when I accepted MS is now a part of me....before then I was flaying in the wind while MS kept knocking me down....

For someone who isn't really religious at all, I turned to prayer big time. And at some point I had to let someone bigger than me take over.

Keri, I know that you were blindsided big time. And I have read all your threads and posts. I have advised you in several threads to not lay there, go get a second opinion. Your Dx, from every thing you say, doesn't seem right to me. You may in fact have MS. Your doc may be really really good. The first doc to ever tell me I had MS was YEARS ago and she was an internist with the worst bedside manners I ever saw. Needless to say I left her, but it took YEARS after she said this for me to be dx... So your neuro may be like her, but you still need to have all the bloodwork done....please ask him to at least do this....

I'd hate to know I was dx with an uncurable disease, when I actually had a curable one.

Peace.