Even doctors miss early signs of multiple sclerosis

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  • Опубликовано: 24 фев 2020
  • There’s no cure for Multiple sclerosis, but an early diagnosis can help doctors treat the unpredictable disease.

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  • @samkitty5894
    @samkitty5894 6 месяцев назад +45

    How can you get diagnosed early when every appointment is months into the future, and most doctors are completely clueless. You get 15 minutes per visit. Good luck...

    • @visionsmagazineonlin
      @visionsmagazineonlin 4 месяца назад +2

      Goin thru that now. Walking is getting harder n harder. Fell in the tub. Worried about staying employed.

    • @samkitty5894
      @samkitty5894 4 месяца назад

      Stay positive...I know it's hard. @@visionsmagazineonlin

    • @byron2521
      @byron2521 3 месяца назад +2

      Hear you! My appointments were sometimes 2 months apart. Took 10 months for me to get a confirmed diagnosis.

    • @leaveittolefty
      @leaveittolefty 2 месяца назад +2

      exactly!! my fear is that i will finally see dr and hear " if you would have been here 3 months ago we could have helped you."😢
      update: my fear came true. diagnosed with ALS

    • @KianaG1280
      @KianaG1280 Месяц назад

      Omg. That sucks. I never have to wait long to see specialists unlese its ENT.

  • @kB5TVP
    @kB5TVP 9 месяцев назад +36

    To everyone who Suffers with MS. I personally will pray for you. ❤
    I watched my dad SUFFER with it, a severe case. Lose all mobility within 1 year. From cane, to walker to wheelchair.
    He lost his battle in 2014. Im sure they have much better treatment now! Godbless everyone! ❤

    • @noemig04ify
      @noemig04ify 9 месяцев назад

      May he Rest In Peace 🙏
      My father is dealing with progressive MS, he lost mobility of both arms, he’s speech, now its starting with he’s legs. It’s hard to see him like that, but he’s humor and smile never fades.

    • @ehsaasdubey7781
      @ehsaasdubey7781 9 месяцев назад +2

      Hey! I’m really sorry to know that, can you tell me the details how your father was before during early days of MS? I would really help me, thank you

    • @Truerealism747
      @Truerealism747 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@ehsaasdubey7781just lost my.mum.to.severe ms I have fybromyalgia started in left leg 59 by 64 couldn't move list her 72 bedboynd

    • @ichigomf
      @ichigomf 5 месяцев назад

      May I ask where are you from?

    • @clarebritton8245
      @clarebritton8245 2 месяца назад

      So sorry to hear about your Dad. Thank you for
      praying, I have ms x

  • @street_girl
    @street_girl 7 месяцев назад +47

    It's not that they don't see the signs. It's just that they don't care

  • @BigDrawersMcGraw
    @BigDrawersMcGraw 7 месяцев назад +20

    I woke up one day completely blind in one eye out of nowhere last year. I went to the ER in philly and was properly diagnosed with MS. Although my brain has 8 large lesions, I still retained all of my motor skills. I still commute everyday by bicycle!

    • @MrMudEagle
      @MrMudEagle Месяц назад +1

      May God bless you and keep you healthy. I pray you stay mobile, agile, and hostile as long as you live.

    • @pistachiogelato8370
      @pistachiogelato8370 14 дней назад

      Exact same thing happened to me same city too crazy...

  • @ronsmith2241
    @ronsmith2241 7 месяцев назад +25

    My wife had symptoms mainly on her right side. It was In correctly diagnosed as a stroke for the first 8 years. Her MS was correctly diagnosed with a spinal tap after that. She had MS for 26 years and was unable to ambulate for the last 15 years. I was her carer for almost all that time. She is no longer with us and passed at almost 82 years.

    • @carlytrenee4467
      @carlytrenee4467 5 месяцев назад

      I am so sorry about her passing, no matter how long its been. I have been seeking a diagnosis for an undiagnosed medical issue affecting my neurological functions that began Feb of last year. I am getting an MRI of my lumbar spine tomorrow, and I am really so anxious. All of my signs point to MS, and it's in the family.
      I will be thinking of your wife tonight and tomorrow. I hope you are doing well and I hope she is at peace.

    • @MoxmOne
      @MoxmOne 4 месяца назад +1

      Hello Ron, thanks for sharing your story I truly hope that one day you can be with her again. I cannot imagine being without my wife.

  • @jeanniegreen8728
    @jeanniegreen8728 7 месяцев назад +14

    I will never forget going to the doctor telling them something is wrong because I was abnormally tired. I told them I know the difference between fatigue from stress and this is not that-- I can drink an energy drink and go right to sleep in the day time. They told me it was likely just stress from being a single parent. This was over a decade before lesions were seen on an MRI.
    Now I am back to southern oregon-the same area where all of my health concerns were misdiagnosed or ignored, and this year I finally enrolled in job based benefits and I am afraid to experience the same responses I had to face all those years ago.

    • @Malakaiea
      @Malakaiea 3 месяца назад +1

      That sounds like me and it was adhd!

  • @kule510
    @kule510 2 года назад +26

    This is crazy hope to god they find a cure for this disease.

  • @raineynight
    @raineynight 10 месяцев назад +16

    I had brain lesions and 2 neurologist still claimed that i didnt have MS. Finally after seeing my MRI a neurosurgeon surgeon recommended that i see another neurologist. That 3rd neurologist didnt hesitate before saying rhat i did have MS. I had a spinal tap to confirm it. 5 oligoclonal bands!! This took 7 years!

    • @pjangels609
      @pjangels609 5 месяцев назад +1

      Sorry for that struggle! I think I'm going through the same thing! All my blood work (C Reactive Protein, ESR, WBD) says negative, but I have flare ups quite regularly, just getting over one, so going back to doctor! And I've told them I think I have MS.

    • @raineynight
      @raineynight 5 месяцев назад

      @@pjangels609 Try to see a neurologist that specializes in MS.

    • @federicamatii
      @federicamatii 29 дней назад

      What were your first symptoms when you had 2 lesions?

  • @constancemichelle52
    @constancemichelle52 9 месяцев назад +16

    I PRAY AND BELIEVE THEY WILL FIND A CURE!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @elizabethhurtado2829
    @elizabethhurtado2829 Год назад +8

    Over 7 years and no help

  • @Tns85
    @Tns85 3 месяца назад +3

    I had a doctor tell me I had Ms. and 2 others say I didn't. Doctor s get major monetary kickback from the pharma companies for drugs they prescribe. Always get other opinions and don't fall victim to doctor s misdiagnoses.

  • @timholloway8821
    @timholloway8821 2 года назад +29

    This is awful, I feel like death almost every single day, dizzy, terrible fatigue, the pain is terrible in my body. I'm trying to work and it's so hard just to make it through the day. I sleep but I feel like I have not slept in days, it's miserable tbh!

    • @ggt2719
      @ggt2719 2 года назад +2

      🙏🏾

    • @jamberry1135
      @jamberry1135 2 года назад +1

      Have you tried a whole food plant based diet?

    • @lenabrown2598
      @lenabrown2598 2 года назад +1

      My brother who took so many medications but in vain. Turned to alternative medecine
      It was hard for him to believe but we insisted until he started taking them
      My God how his life changed is God blessings

    • @Jessknowsbestt
      @Jessknowsbestt Год назад +2

      I’m not 100% I have ms still but it sure definitely feels like it .. I think COVID caused it. And my digestive system has become paralyzed. I am 23 went from never in my life getting sick to feeling like I have a bad painful cold every single day. All I can hope for is better days but you are NOT alone.

    • @davidpegram8068
      @davidpegram8068 Год назад +2

      You need medical cannabis to aid you

  • @lillyrocks2011
    @lillyrocks2011 Год назад +7

    There's no yet an answer for Autoimmune conditions. If a person has one autoimmune probably will have or develop more.
    That really sucks.
    Pharmaceuticals aren't investing much to get to know the cause and get better treatments, direct medications because they think we aren't many people with Autoimmune conditions. So
    ...
    If we had cancer we would be seen and treated very differently with interest and would help us.
    There's a lot of ignorance and around Autoimmune conditions we're not taken seriously yet,but I think more ppl is getting sick with an autoimmune disease.
    I forgot how difficult is yo get a diagnosis because of the same ignorance thinking that is "too rare".
    That's when some doctors will diagnose the patient with stress or with fibromyalgia. 😢

  • @evilemoji420
    @evilemoji420 Год назад +7

    noticed my hands and legs went numb to everything but never thought twice about vision since i’ve always been half blind

    • @Ausgar-yc1yl
      @Ausgar-yc1yl 10 месяцев назад +1

      You should get OrCam glasses.

    • @mollybrown465
      @mollybrown465 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@Ausgar-yc1ylwhat are they? I’ve never heard of that

    • @Ausgar-yc1yl
      @Ausgar-yc1yl 8 месяцев назад

      @@mollybrown465 They are glasses that can help you see, they are expensive though.

  • @benmartin1727
    @benmartin1727 2 года назад +9

    Unfortunately didn't have any major symptoms early on, and through the first year of covid, had trouble seeing a dr. If I had been able to see a DR about my leg issues early on, and not been left assuming I had simply strained something, and trying to take it easy, I could have been on a treatment a lot sooner, and maybe not progressed to be near disability.

    • @nidhisindhwani9871
      @nidhisindhwani9871 10 месяцев назад

      Plz help me and reply me .. I having legs cramps for 2months

    • @pjangels609
      @pjangels609 5 месяцев назад

      you could have low potassium. @@nidhisindhwani9871

  • @ithacacomments4811
    @ithacacomments4811 2 года назад +18

    As I understand, research has discovered a connection between mono infection in teen years with MS in adulthood.

  • @lisasheline5406
    @lisasheline5406 2 года назад +34

    These are the same symptoms with Fibromyalgia. Which I was diagnosed with back in 1990. I get worse and worse as time goes on. I forget just about everything. I lose my thoughts too often. Honestly everything they mentioned, I have. But my symptoms are much worse. The last three years have been the hardest for me. It may have been Fibro, but I feel it's crossed over, because I can look back over the three years and ask myself what the hell happened? I can't manage any pain.

    • @kule510
      @kule510 2 года назад +3

      How are you doing now?

    • @lisasheline5406
      @lisasheline5406 2 года назад +9

      @@kule510 Truly never a good day. But I push through it and do the best I can.

    • @davidpegram8068
      @davidpegram8068 2 года назад +8

      @@lisasheline5406 have you tried medical cannabis for pain relief? Definitely not for everyone but could make positive difference.

    • @jackiewilliams4426
      @jackiewilliams4426 2 года назад +4

      Same here, except I was diagnosed at 19 with fibro and am 22 now.

    • @mitidav176
      @mitidav176 Год назад +3

      I know this is an older post, but fibro doesn’t progress. Now that doesn’t mean you won’t have days that are worst than others, but the disease itself will not get worse over time.
      I was diagnosed with fibro 10 years ago, a misdiagnosis, & diagnosed with M.S in ‘21.

  • @georgiahewitt3495
    @georgiahewitt3495 9 месяцев назад +3

    I got diagnosed 2020 , after having optic neuritis and facial numbness, my eyes were deteriorating fast , 3 years on my legs go completely paralysed for a few weeks at a time RRMS sucks :( early diagnosis can help start treatment earlier , although if tried 3 so far with no good results

  • @frenchtoast7742
    @frenchtoast7742 Год назад +20

    Yes , but they always say you need lesions on the brain or spine to have MS . That’s why people are misdiagnosed. You can have the symptoms and develop lesions later on. And that’s a fact 💯 Even with Parkinson’s you need a DAT scan 💯💯

    • @octopu5ie
      @octopu5ie 11 месяцев назад +4

      Thank you, very good to keep in mind!

    • @brucemjson
      @brucemjson 8 месяцев назад

      I've got MS like symptoms, but my MRI seems normal? Very confusing 😢

    • @Mischief_Therian
      @Mischief_Therian 2 месяца назад +1

      I don’t know what to do because my neurologist finally did an MRI after complaining about numbness and several other symptoms and they found lesions on my brain but spinal tap was normal. I’m going tomorrow for a spine scan..

    • @frenchtoast7742
      @frenchtoast7742 2 месяца назад

      @@brucemjson then you may or may not not have MS - but you need to talk with your neurologist about your symptoms further or do more tests because it could be another reason why you are having these issues. They thought I had it and it turned out to be something else . Keep at it and ALWAYS ADVOCATE FOR YOIR HEALTH ! ❤️

    • @frenchtoast7742
      @frenchtoast7742 2 месяца назад +1

      @@Mischief_Therian I never heard of that at all . If you get your tests done and you feel you’re still unsure of your diagnosis and you feel you’re not in the best of care - then go for a second opinion. It’s what I did for my health- ALWAYS . It’s your right and it will give you peace of mind . It’s a horrible feeling when you are not confident in your doctor or you are feeling unsure of yourself.
      Always advocate for yourself in your health 🩷

  • @frankdenes379
    @frankdenes379 8 месяцев назад +9

    I literally have every symptom listed cognitive issues I can’t remember anything, I get tingling sensations in my feet, blurry vision and double vision, muscle spasms, bladder issues and bowel issues and I also have balance issues as well! I hope I can get an appointment sooner to get a diagnosis because I don’t want these things to get worse. I’m scared but I want an exact answer as to what’s going on with me

    • @nattimac1045
      @nattimac1045 8 месяцев назад +1

      My mom has MS she starring smoking marijuana to help with pain

    • @mollybrown465
      @mollybrown465 8 месяцев назад

      I have all the symptoms too to the extent I was checked for cauda equina syndrome

    • @ichigomf
      @ichigomf 5 месяцев назад +1

      I had the same problems beside vision issues. I was already in the hospital when the symptoms got worse, I stopped walking in 4 days after reaching the hospital.
      It was in the last year. I'm being treated and my life is back normal since then.
      I'm lucky my country has free healthcare and I didn't have to pay anything for the hospital, transport, exams, medicines and doctors. Every month I take Natalizumab and visit the doctor each 3 months and everything is doing ok.
      I still have some tingling in my feet and balance issues, I can notice it more when I don't sleep, but nothing compared to before. I run everyday, go to the gym and work normally.
      Hope everything is going to be ok with you too.

    • @pjangels609
      @pjangels609 5 месяцев назад

      Start with an anti-inflammatory diet, it helps. Alsp look into supplements, foods and vitamins that repair the myelin sheath.

    • @Lucky_Kumar__
      @Lucky_Kumar__ 3 месяца назад +1

      Can u tell me what bladder issue you had?

  • @davidpegram8068
    @davidpegram8068 2 года назад +21

    I got miss diagnosed more times than I can remember. I got told my spasticity in my leg to where I couldn't bend it was cartilage wearing. Literally until I couldn't feel my whole left side did they find my raised white blood cells

    • @jamberry1135
      @jamberry1135 2 года назад +4

      Have you tried a whole food plant based diet

    • @davidpegram8068
      @davidpegram8068 2 года назад +6

      I have no active disease in my last mri scan. I eat low carb. Water overload no tobacco or alcohol. No relapse for 2years.

    • @shireenramnarain4005
      @shireenramnarain4005 Год назад +3

      ​@@jamberry1135 i am total vegetarian

    • @shireenramnarain4005
      @shireenramnarain4005 Год назад +2

      ​@@davidpegram8068 i dont drink ,smoke or eat meatbi am a vegetarian
      Yet i have ms....
      It seems something wrong

    • @davidpegram8068
      @davidpegram8068 Год назад +1

      @@shireenramnarain4005 i highly advise you consume 5000 uts of vitamin d supplement everyday.

  • @visionvixxen
    @visionvixxen 11 месяцев назад +4

    I wish there was a way to find and treat sooner.
    I think I’ve had this for 20 years and my symptoms come and go, but no doctor has said anything although I fall once to three times a year, blurry vision. Some spasms, episodic difficult breathing, blurred vision. Often tingling numbness dizziness balance hip flexor weakness. Dysfunctional bladder.Sudden
    Problem is I take Prozac and meds that could cause balance etc issues
    Depression irritability, mood swings and cognitive issues

  • @kevinfitzgerald7474
    @kevinfitzgerald7474 7 месяцев назад +3

    Drs miss alot of diseases. My nuerological problems are from tick diseases and mold toxicities. These nuerological problems are from the nerves in the whole body being infected, toxins and cause failure to functioning of the nervous systems.

    • @gunnarfit
      @gunnarfit 7 месяцев назад

      How do you know you experience symptoms from mold toxicity?
      I’ve slept around mold many times, and experience so many debilitating symptoms in a daily basis, could I be into something?

  • @erzas556
    @erzas556 2 месяца назад +1

    I don’t know if I have to go and check because I don’t have blurred vision (although I have vision problems since childhood) but I have all the other symptoms. Does anyone have the same confusion? It takes a long time to set an appointment and get a referral so I feel really lazy towards it.

  • @notion14
    @notion14 4 года назад +20

    Yes they miss it, plus if you are near to or at menopause, that's what they use !..further, to see a neurologist , the gp must do a referral letter first But Only if they believe you have MS so its a double whammy for this age group..i am in this category..And i have degenerative spine so its even worse..i am not able to put my case across , i am pathetic. Even tried going private but i still have to have his damn letter so i cant win..i am sure i have MS..any help/support for a coward please..thanks .

  • @priyanshubagribagri3758
    @priyanshubagribagri3758 Год назад

    It’s has happened with me the doctor found out about the disease when the situation got out of hand

  • @baronghede2365
    @baronghede2365 2 месяца назад +1

    To anyone who finds my comment: speak to a chiropractor, try the Mediterranean diet and use Herb's like turmeric, ginger and Asian ginsing, Blessed Be.

  • @stevesmith-hi3oo
    @stevesmith-hi3oo 10 дней назад

    how is it cured?

  • @nabeelmalik89
    @nabeelmalik89 2 года назад +14

    My Dr said I was stressing out. My vision was blurred for a few weeks at a time until I did an MRI scan. So annoyed at the Dr

    • @davidpegram8068
      @davidpegram8068 2 года назад +3

      Is unbelievable isn't it. I couldn't bend my left leg atall and they sent me to a phisio for treatment

    • @nabeelmalik89
      @nabeelmalik89 2 года назад +1

      @@davidpegram8068 I went through the same as well. I walk like 50 to 100 meters. My knee was f'ed up!! Soo annoying. I swore at the dr and called an idiot cause his judgement was rubbish and my neuro sent the results and felt bad

    • @davidpegram8068
      @davidpegram8068 2 года назад +4

      @@nabeelmalik89 it really was annoying '11years took to get diagnosed just because I was so young. Even got told by a doctor must be concussion the reason I couldn't walk in straight line...!

    • @jamberry1135
      @jamberry1135 2 года назад

      Have you tried a whole food plant based diet

    • @SuperMichelleDJ
      @SuperMichelleDJ Месяц назад

      A doctor told me that my chest issues from Covid were caused by smoking. I knew they were caused by Covid because I never took up smoking. Will never take another vaccine again unless I'm unconscious.

  • @theoriginaljonsie1
    @theoriginaljonsie1 2 месяца назад

    I have all of the symptoms that they have mentioned but drs pass it off as other things.

  • @frenchtoast7742
    @frenchtoast7742 Год назад +6

    MS and Fibromyalgia ARE NOT THE SAME SYMPTOMS.
    STOP comparing these two !!!
    MS AND PARKINSONISM are very highly comparable.
    Unless you have had an MS or Parkinson’s workup - don’t compare Fibromyalgia to any of these two diseases. We have these two horrible diseases for life and they don’t go away .
    We get worse and we don’t get better .
    We became disabled or unable to drive , to do daily tasks , breathe and live on our own , and our lives shortened due to infectious or lung infections.
    These are not symptoms or complications of Fibromyalgia.
    So please stop comparing.
    Spoken from a Parkinson’s patient.

    • @njay3029
      @njay3029 Год назад +8

      actually, fibro and MS do have many similar/same symptoms, many fibro patients go onto develop Ms and many are misdiagnosed

    • @mollybrown465
      @mollybrown465 8 месяцев назад +1

      Well I have all those symptoms but I haven’t got MS or Parkinson’s, just fibro. I have bronchiectasis so I struggle to breathe. I have no control over bowel or bladder. I wear tight straps most of the day and night because of cts. I have a cpap that is use through the day and night. I suffer with occipital neuralgia, spondylitis and three damaged lumbar disc, and no knees. So now tell me my symptoms are not like MS.

  • @sharonscott8490
    @sharonscott8490 8 месяцев назад +1

    Sounds like menopause symptoms

  • @catherineduguay9558
    @catherineduguay9558 8 месяцев назад

    Sounds like Fibro too

  • @martinsahagunsiles3513
    @martinsahagunsiles3513 9 дней назад

    😓

  • @elizabethhurtado2829
    @elizabethhurtado2829 Год назад

    💰💰💰💰💰💰💰🏦🙏

  • @lillyrocks2011
    @lillyrocks2011 Год назад +2

    There's no yet an answer for Autoimmune conditions. If a person has one autoimmune probably will have or develop more.
    That really sucks.
    Pharmaceuticals aren't investing much to get to know the cause and get better treatments, direct medications because they think we aren't many people with Autoimmune conditions. So
    ...
    If we had cancer we would be seen and treated very differently with interest and would help us.
    There's a lot of ignorance and around Autoimmune conditions we're not taken seriously yet,but I think more ppl is getting sick with an autoimmune disease.
    I forgot how difficult is yo get a diagnosis because of the same ignorance thinking that is "too rare".
    That's when some doctors will diagnose the patient with stress or with fibromyalgia. 😢