Welcome to the NT MS forum BT. So nice to meet you.:)

I'm sorry for your DX, but glad you found the best place to talk about it....right here at Neurotalk.

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Hello and Welcome! :hug:

Give it time to settle in. I lived in 'denial' for 7 years myself. Give yourself time to absorb your DX. For me, I felt 'validated' once I had my dx this past October. I was able to say, I wasn't Lazy, I wasn't anything but just myself with a horrible illness. Life is funny that ways, I guess.

Haven't read everyone else - but yes!! you are so normal!!

I was dx'd in 2001 and the giant concrete block of fear hung over my head for 2 years. I worried that having trouble going up the stairs was a symptom (nope - I was just fat!:p), I imagined that I was having weird sensory issues, but it turns out that I had sat in some mortar while tiling my bathroom!:rolleyes: I'm a worrywort - I can imagine a symptom like noone else!!

Good news is that it does go away! It did when I started hanging out on Message boards and talking to other people. Once I saw lots of people living well despite MS, the fear started receding. A counselor helped a lot too.

Don't fret, you'll get there. And despite getting a stinky dx, you've now got a whole new group of friends :)

I don't think I have welcomed you yet. So welcome!

I forget that I have MS even though I have sx daily....it has just become part of who I am...then sometimes it reminds me (like walking across a grassy field w/ low heels on...ugly:mad:)

hello and welcome, you will find helpful people here, and they are actually really nice people too :eek: just kidding

always ask if you dont know, or else you will never have that answer.

good luck in this, yes its a hand full and a mind full, dont stress over it all, all at once. yes easier said that done, but I wish I was able to do this as it was advice given to me at first. again welcome to the club



peace