First Symptoms

[ambrosiawind]

Would like to know what the first symptoms were that people experienced with MS and even those still in limbo

along with the choices below if there were other places where neuropathy and spasms were discovered that you were unaware of

and Optic neuritis if you have and when it started

[Georgeios]

My first symptoms i noticed were...

Tired, Sore Head and blurred visions (June 08) only just had Optic Neuritis Dx and since june, im just breaking slowly. but tired sore head and blurred vision was my starter....

[ambrosiawind]

Electric shock sensations - started in pelvic area and groin progressed to arms, legs, and one up spine also in hands

strange shocking sensations across abdomen

Burning sensations in right thigh for 2 years, also in face and occassionally arms

vibrations in stomach and feet

spasms in calves after flare up - spasms never went away just better some days

dx of neuropathy and spasms in nether regions

sphincter spasm once

no optic neuritis

all symptoms are within the last 12 months
no dx of MS yet

[blahblahbetty]

gums were  servervly painful next day had  stoke there is  a maxillary artery  by our teeth and jaws  i had a vertrebral dissection  stroke treating it now with meds  not feeling too well

[nette573]

my first symptoms were stroke like symptoms.  I could not walk the next day.  it was hard to lift my legs.  Lynette

[ambrosiawind]

also shocks in jaw

[doublevision1]

First symptom of my MS was Lhermitte's in June 2006.  Electric/buzzing/vibrating sensation I would feel down my spine all the way to both feet, when I flexed my neck forward.

[LATW]

Trigeminal Neuralgia 2005
Optic Neuritis 2007 and 2008

Diagnosed MS Feb 2008

[Wobbly]

Dizziness was my first symptoms of whatever this is...then the heavy left leg, Double/Blurry vision, tingling, numbness on left side. etc etc...

not yet Dx

[Rachelinpain]

the first thing i noticed was an annoying feeling of water running down the back of my right leg.  i also had intense fatigue and weakness in one of my legs.

[jensequitur]

The very first thing I noticed was burning, tingling, and numbness.  However, I didn't go to the doctor until my face started tingling, and my vertigo showed up.

[crswin]

My 1st symptoms were at 1st thought to me a TIA- right side paralysis, with drooping of the right face and slurred, difficult, thick, speech.  This episode lasted 1 week- with a 5 day hospitalization, with residual symptoms for 1 month.  I had a complete recovery.  It was 4 years until my next episode.

[doni54]

Tight hard muscles in my arms which always made them weak, unexplainable bone numbing fatigue and horrible muscle spasms after getting hot.

Itching in feet, hands, ears.....nothing would ease it, not even cortizone creams.

Tinnitis off and on for 2 yrs, now is always on for the last 2 yrs

[Rena705]

Grand Mal Seizures while sleeping and Optic Neuritis...other than that, no "typical" MS Symptoms until July 2007.  Diagnosed in 1993.

Rena

[ladygraycloud]

My first signs were dizziness, knife stabbing pain in my right temple and ear and then a TIA and completely dead on the right side of my body that lasted 6 hours-complete recovery and the 2nd TIA one month later to the day.

[monotreme]

stabbing pains in the outside of both thighs, and numbness in the left foot.

Elaine

[lmax0021]

Sensation changes then numbness, tingling and burning down right side except right arm and feeling uncoordinated on entire left side.

[Quixotic1]

None of the items in the poll.

Weakness R leg

Spasticity R leg

Fatigue

Quix

[AMO]

none in poll either.

head/trunck tremor
falls
urge inconteince
slur speech
choking/swallowing
nystagmus
some kind of 'spells' (possible seizure type?
ffatigue

[Lulu54]

neuropathy in my right leg sent me to the doctor but looking back my earliest symptoms were dizziness and lack of balance probably.

[Suzie9]

I had sudden paraethesia around the middle of my back and spine up to my left shoulder. This Symptom has never left, just changes in sensation (sometimes burning), and is not as intense. I am only diagnosed with CIS at the moment. (Have Brain and Spinal lesions).

[sllowe]

The only thing in the poll that I had was L'hermittes

Slurred speech

Walking issues (had to correct myself from going off to the right)

Uncoordinated and had could not make my body do what my mind wanted or needed to do

Basically, all stroke-like symptoms to include not being able to make my hand write, etc

L'hermittes caused a buzzing in my keister (when I bent my head down)

Fatigue (could not stay awake)

I could go on and on here...............
-Shell dx'd in 07

[saveone]

Cognitive issues and vertigo, starting in 2007.  However, looking back I may have been as young as 18, because at eighteen I would have these spells were I would feel like someone had shocked me and I would drop whatever I had in my hand.

[ambrosiawind]

Thank you all for your comments on this, My main reason for asking the questions wasn't necessarily for a poll, it was because many of us here in limbo often wonder what the first symptoms were for those who are diagnosed and it is tough going through all the profiles I thought that this would be a good way to see first hand.

For me personally as more people have written i am seeing a pattern that is similar to my own

l'hermittes is my biggest issue and as lyme, pinched nerves and vitamin deficiency's have been ruled out i was having a tough time finding something else out there that listed this as a main symptom.

Thank you all so much

[OperaMBA]

Tightness in my forearms and arms and legs paralyzed for 5 days...

Opera

[sunshine8]

First symptoms I recognized were dizziness and fatigue, especially when hot.  

1st Neurologist pointed out balance issues and tremor.

8 months later had Optic Neuritis.

Ms Specialist added hyper reflexes, positive babinski and loss of feeling in both feet to the list.

All of those are perminent symptoms, except for the optic nueritis with came and went. Apparently I have had them all for a while, just didn't recognize them.