Thank you all for the info! I appreciate it! I guess I am a young'un.. lol but I guess its a great thing for me because I know I have some experienced MS'ers to fall back on if I'm lost!!!

It's hard being 26 and having to wear diapers and struggle to walk and stuff... I am really having a hard time with it lately... Thank god for the pull up underwear though!

My big embarrassment when I was working was having to call into work late because I pooped myself while driving there (6 times...). That was horrible and degrading!! I keep going back and forth and the more I think about it, and as bad as I have felt the last couple days... I think I am going to have to look seriously into disability...

Hard to hold a job if you cant hold your bodily functions! lol

This has more to do with your other post about insurance frustrations, but you mentioned disability here as well, so I thought I'd let you know here.

You don't need to go to your doctor to apply for disability. You can call social security or start the application on line. You give them the information and they will track it down. Applying as soon as you are disabled is important because it takes them a while to process everything (4-6 mos) and then you have a waiting period of 5 months from the date of disability as they determine it before any payments come in.

You can call 800-772-1213 to get the ap started and they can set up an interview at a local office for you, either in person or by phone.

Best of luck!

OK..Just so I'm clear here, we are talkin' "physical" age, as opposed to, say, mental/emotional?
I just turned 49 in March, I was 45 when dx'd with symptoms trailing back to shortly after my son was born (I was 30), possibly earlier..
For the other, it varies from day to day..Today I feel like a cranky, hormonal teenager.

If we're talking mental age, then I think I'm about 19 or maybe somewhere in my early 20s. (I wish)

Hi, mental age- 24
Dx last week, symptoms since Jan '09 with one brief spell of (not) Bells palsy last aug.
Actual age 37. But I SO don't feel it...

just turned 45.... I really cant believe it yet!!!!

Hello everyone! Hows everyone today.. I am still holding the title of youngest member I see.... There's no one in their 20's out there huh?

I think there are a few in their twenties here??

Where is our little 14 yr old with RSD..Ali, where are you? She doesn't have MS, but her symptoms are very much like ours, so we made her part of our Family.

I was dx when I was 28, just turned 30 two days ago. I have documented symptoms going back to when I was 24, but in hindsight, I think I've had it since my teens.

age 49 ... dx 48... symptoms since teens.