Only 10 years
 

It only took me 10 years to realize:

1. Yeah, I REALLY do have MS.

2. Trying to do anything in a hurry with MS is a mistake.

3. There are no choices about having this.

4. It could be worse.

Sheesh Kickey, you have mo smarts than I do.:Viking:

I'm still trying to figgger it out, after 40+ years..:Crazy 2::deadhorse::hit-safe:

See Sal,
That's why I like you. You never know! Everyday is a new day full of possibilities.

I wonder if I will ever reach the point, where I really, truly, all the time realize, "I really DO have MS"?

I've always realized it could be worse, though I don't necessarily always want to hear it. :mad: Before I was diagnosed, I pictured: Alzheimer's, brain cancer, ALS, Cerebellar Ataxia, etc. I know it could GET worse, and someday I might eat my words, but right now I believe there are worse things than MS.

I still ask myself the "Do I really have it" question every day...I have a mild case, so maybe it's the arthritis making me stiff.
Maybe it's the 10+lb babies that totally ruined my ability to control bathroom functions...maybe my foot is just too tired to lift off the ground...maybe my brain has ALWAYS been impaired.

Whatever...:rolleyes:

Why is it that we are all so insecure about our diagnosis? Could it be a result of how torturous it can be to actually GET the diagnosis? Do people who are diagnosed with other rotten diseases have the same problem? Perhaps it has something to do with the relapsing/remitting nature of this disease. Could it be that MS's its on-agan, off again nature causes us to doubt our own sensibilities?

It was a relief for me to finally know what was going on. I knew that something was wrong......just didn't know what. My dx finally explained all those strange "episodes" that I'd had over the years. I told them I wasn't drinking!!! :rolleyes:

It isn't as though you can point to a blood test and say, "There, I'm positive for MS". And we hear all these stories, some true and some not, about people who were misdiagnosed one way or the other. Add to that the medical-issue-of-the-day that our friends try to convince us is what's "really" wrong with us...

...and of course, our natural inclination to DENIAL.