finally dx

[babbs620]

Hi i havent been on for a while.....but wanting to take a moment to thank the ms forum for helping me when i felt nobody understood my issues....several of you reached out and helped me endure some hard days....I was in the process of moving to TX when I had a bad attack...after arriving here I went to neuro who pulled in several doctors and gave me iv steroids the next day after first appointment for 5 days and got me thinking clearer and walking without movement disorder and blah blah lol anyways was dx with hashimotos encephalopathy and now take 2000mg of cellcept and havent had iv steriods in 3 months.....again thanks for all your help....and best to you all barbara

[babbs620]

Thank you for all the nice words and best of luck to everybody....I was so happy to get dx.....and wanted people to know that sometimes it looks like a duck and quakes like a duck but it isnt a duck lol.....and just want people to know there is so many things out there that has alot of mimics to ms but isnt and I hope everybody that isnt dx that is suffering make there doctors look elsewhere I told my doctors no more looking for ms we have got to look for something else, I understand it can take yrs to find ms but I knew as sick as I was there would be lesions with it was ms......god bless and again thanks for being there for me

[drsdonthelp]

Barbara,
So glad that you have a dx. The wait is over. The treatment begins. Life can move forward.
That's all we want! right? So happy for you and hope you are doing well.
Pam

[sllowe]

So glad you came back to tell all us!
I already told you, but will do so again....you can inspire others, and while this is not MS, you sure know what we go through because we share so many symptoms.
thank you for coming back to let us know, and hope you continue in good care in tx
-shell

[RedFlame]

Hi Barbara,  I'm sorry you have had such a tough time with all of this.  The process of being diagnosed is really hard.  

Now that you are diagnosed you can begin to move forward.  

I will hope that your treatment helps reduce all your symptoms!

Take care,
Lois

[babbs620]

thanks so much lulu you was one of the people that reached out to me....and yes the doctors and us get stuck on MS ....when I moved here I told my doctor I refuse to go down the ms road and he looked at me and said Im positive you have ms lol after he proved to himself I didnt he didnt leave my side and said we will find out whats going on and he did.....No the fires arent around us thank goodness so sad.....we do need rain...thanks for asking god bless

[Lulu54]

Barbara, thanks for coming back through and sharing the news with us.  We especially appreciate those of you who take the time to let us know what other problems you might be dx'd with instead of MS.

We focus so hard here on everything MS that it is too easy to forget that the mimics can be the cause of the symptoms.

I hope the treatent continues to work for you and you have a good medical team to work with.  I hope the fires aren't in your area, and that TX gets rain soon.

best,
Lulu