Hi julie,
i am a 25 yr old female. I have probably had mild symptoms of mulitple sclerosis all of my life. Mine has probably started since I was born. I was always told all of these different things by my neurologist like: traumatic brain injury, seizure disorder, vastibular bilateral integration disorder. I was always so confused as to what I had. I never knew I had the mild symptoms of ms. Right now I don't have full on ms, just mild symptoms. With me I have always had trouble with learning, some seizures;
i have problems remembering things, understanding, stuff like that. About a year ago I started going to a new neurologist, he did a consultation appointment. At my appt. My Dr. Asked me some questions. I had a hard time remembering, my coordination a little off. He had some idea about the mild ms; due to what he noticed at the Dr. Appointment, then he did an mri. The mri showed some stuff on my brain. So then my neurologist told me I have mild symptoms of ms.
For me I think as of right now I am about the only person I know of who has had mild ms all of my life.
With me sometimes I do really good, sometimes I can get worse, it all depends on if I am really relaxed & everything.
My neurologist told me if my symptoms get worse he wants to do a comparison mri to see if I have multiple sclerosis. But for now it's just mild symptoms of ms.

I am also pretty healthy as well: when I was in high school & junior college I ran track & cross country. I was extremely surprised & happy at how well I did. I did the best I could, I wasn't always the fastest one on my team. Everybody else was also happy & really surprised at how I did.

I am so sorry about your friend. What sort of things has he had to go through with his ms?
I'm not sure what to say to you really. I know that it can be really hard & sometimes really scary.
With me sometimes I get a little scared, because with me sometimes I am really great, then other times i'm not that great.
For me i've had to live with mine all my life, so I wasn't really surprised about it, just relieved to know what I have.
I can do everything I need to do, sometimes it can take a little bit longer for me, & I need a little more help.

Bonnie

Thanks bonnie.

He just found out a few days ago and he first had syptoms like 3 weeks ago.

The side of his face just got numb and he had no energy, thats about it.

One of his eyes went kinda lazy and then they just started running tests.

Hi julie,
your welcome. I'm not really sure what to say. Me, I haven't experienced any of those things.
Are the drs. Really sure he has multiple sclerosis?
I would suggest having an mri (magnetic resonance imaging) done. That would be something that would show abnormalities on the brain. When I had my mri (magnetic resonance imaging) done it showed some abnormalities (leisons, white matter) on my brain.
That would probably be the best thing to do.
I really hope you & your friend find out more about his condition & hopefully his drs can help him out.

Bonnie

Yeah he has had an mri.