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Hello, a quick question. Ever since a couple months ago when I was told I have MS and shown all these lesions on my MRI I have become hypersensitive to any and all symptoms. I have a lot of commonCommon cold sense and I believe I have done an ok job at determining what is accually a symptom and what is not. "Ok that was or is something medical" or "ok that is something that is normalNormal saline flush with me" I am trying to do my best. I want as good of a timeline as I can get and don't want to hurt the doctor from doing his job. At the same time, I don't want to imagine things and start listing off a thousand things to him, especially considering that three months ago I thought I was fine. He accually stopped me and told me that he can't help if I don't tell him that anything is wrong.
Hi Joe,
you are so wise to be aware of the phenomenon of hypervigilance/hyperawareness. I think we all suffer from it initially after our dx. It is awful hard to know what is and isn't our MS talking to us when we don't know an exact list of symptoms. As best as I can figure, there must be over 1,000 ways this disease presents itself.
Please just keep writing things down and work with your neuro. They are used to the newbies having extensive lists. Once you get comfortable in your new body, you will turn down the volume a bit and hear much less.
you are so wise to be aware of the phenomenon of hypervigilance/hyperawareness. I think we all suffer from it initially after our dx. It is awful hard to know what is and isn't our MS talking to us when we don't know an exact list of symptoms. As best as I can figure, there must be over 1,000 ways this disease presents itself.
Please just keep writing things down and work with your neuro. They are used to the newbies having extensive lists. Once you get comfortable in your new body, you will turn down the volume a bit and hear much less.
my best,
Lulu