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Which risk factors for MS apply to you?
These are some of the main risk factors I come across again and again in the literature. Some are well established, other theorized. Please check all that apply to you.
I didn't have enough options to add an "Other" category, so if you have any risk factors not listed here, please tell us what they are.
I didn't have enough options to add an "Other" category, so if you have any risk factors not listed here, please tell us what they are.
-Female
-family history
-Northern European descent
-vitamin D
-childhood high risk area
-not family member, but live in family firiend chain smoker exposure as child
-family history
-Northern European descent
-vitamin D
-childhood high risk area
-not family member, but live in family firiend chain smoker exposure as child
I think N# 3 (or was he 4) was right, I don't fit the characteristics of MS. I have only one of those factors, and that would be that I'm female. :)
~Sunnytoday~
~Sunnytoday~
30 year old female
smoking since 15 and still do
parents both smoked
have ancestors from Europe
smoking since 15 and still do
parents both smoked
have ancestors from Europe
I am female.
I was 39 when this stuff started.
My grandmother has PPMS.
I am 100% northern European.
Had a SEVERE case of mono in August/Sept/Oct 2005.
I smoked from about age 17 to age 30. My father smoked when I was little, and of course, I grew up in the 1970s when EVERYONE smoked EVERYWHERE.
...add to that an excised thyroid because...in 2005/2006, my thyroid went insane with TPO antibodies, grew huge nodules, was hyper, and I had it removed.
Bio
I was 39 when this stuff started.
My grandmother has PPMS.
I am 100% northern European.
Had a SEVERE case of mono in August/Sept/Oct 2005.
I smoked from about age 17 to age 30. My father smoked when I was little, and of course, I grew up in the 1970s when EVERYONE smoked EVERYWHERE.
...add to that an excised thyroid because...in 2005/2006, my thyroid went insane with TPO antibodies, grew huge nodules, was hyper, and I had it removed.
Bio
Wow, if the bout of mono counts, I think I have all the risk factors...
Female gender
Between age 20 – 40 when symptoms began (27)
Heredity/Family History of MS (cousin)
Northern European ancestry (like Ess, I'm mostly Irish and German, but the one that I thought sounded coolest as a kid was Bohemian)
Hx of infectious mononucleosis (had mono in college--is this what is meant here?)
Vitamin D deficiency (slightly low at 25)
Childhood in 'high risk' area (Europe, Canada, northern U.S., NZ & SE Australia) (northern U.S.)
Hx of smoking/Exposure to parental smoking (parents both smoked until I was in elementary school; mother smoked while pregnant with me)
Between age 20 – 40 when symptoms began (27)
Heredity/Family History of MS (cousin)
Northern European ancestry (like Ess, I'm mostly Irish and German, but the one that I thought sounded coolest as a kid was Bohemian)
Hx of infectious mononucleosis (had mono in college--is this what is meant here?)
Vitamin D deficiency (slightly low at 25)
Childhood in 'high risk' area (Europe, Canada, northern U.S., NZ & SE Australia) (northern U.S.)
Hx of smoking/Exposure to parental smoking (parents both smoked until I was in elementary school; mother smoked while pregnant with me)
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