My first symptom was actually optic neuritis. I lost the vision in my left eye for about 6 months. My understanding is very often ON is one of the first symptoms but it is different for everyone....
I know when I started on this journey that I am on now, the neuro sent me for blood tests and they pulled 14 (yes, I counted because I was so surprised) tubes of blood out of me. He wanted me tested...
Hi Hoshie, Personally, I don't know. If it was a brown recluse that bit you, you would know. The venom from a recluse destroys the skin around the bite. A friend got bit by one and waited too long to...
Hi zulily, I got my dx in 2005 and it took me four years to get one. The mri is only one part of the puzzle. They literally try to rule out every other possibility, that is what took so long for me....