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Q: Newly Diagnosed
asked by: Jessica20 on January 5th, 2005
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I am 19 years old and I was diagnosed with ms this past september. It all kinda hit me all at once. I had double vision really bad so I went to the eye doctor at wal*mart thinking it was just my vision and he told me I just had a virus in my eye. Me and my family weren't satisfied with it because he gave me no eyedrops or anything so I went to get a second opinion, well this eye doctor sent me to my neurologist. He did the mri's and the spinal tap. The crazy thing about it though, not long after I had been diagnosed I started forgetting things real easy. I don't remember to this day going to have my spinal tap done. The last week of september I was hospitalized due to dehydration and my ms. I don't remember one second of being in the hospital and my family told me that you could tell that I was out of my mind because I was saying things that I just don't say, and I told every secret that I had. I'm doing a lot better now, although every day I still struggle with double vision, it's not as bad as it was...It gets worse when I get tired. I'm currently on rebif. Did anyone else have a problem with losing your mind or anything? Or with your vision? I'm wondering if the whole vision thing is just something that i'm gonna have to get use to. And does anyone else take rebif? Thanks!
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replied on January 13th, 2005
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I think it would help you to read as much as you can about the disease. Once you understand what the physiological effects are -- what the damage that is actually going on is, you will be better able to know why your body may be doing the things it does. There are some good websites, from the various ms societies, who can also provide you with more information.

Memory, vision, etc. Can all be affected by the damage to nerves. But since the disease is so variable, it's also easy to blame anything that's happening on it -- so if you understand it better, you'll know if maybe there is anything to do, or your symptoms might be down to something else.
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