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It all started around October 2013 I had a bad case of hiccups and vomiting I was admitted to the hospital because I could not eat or keep fluids down . This lasted for about 15 days and resolved on it’s on then every year after that I puke have these same symptoms. Doctors at…

It all started on September 29, 2019 I had a severe headache and pain in my eyes. As a few days went by i started to realize that my vision had gotten blurry in my left eye. My mom took me to the eye doctor and they sent us straight to the ER thinking I…

Every story is different…It all happened 3.5 years back, when I was 25 years old, being a young budding General Surgeon with all the hope of treating my patients with my hands.  It was a routine day, woke up to go to hospital where I was working, but I noticed pain in my eye, took…

One  Wednesday morning in July 2019, I woke up with vision loss. I went to look in my bathroom mirror because I thought maybe I was still asleep.  After covering my right eye, I couldn’t see anything from my left eye.  I immediately called my eye doctor to schedule an appointment.  That Monday,  the eye…

My NMO came on very gradual, years back my right foot started to feel numb, then it crept up my shin, my knee, then the same to my left leg. I am a chef and ran a catering company so I spent crazy long hours on my feet and I wrote it off as it…

It is 4am.  It is not uncommon to wake up at this time.  In fact, this is an everday occurrance.  It is either my friend and pain-buddy, Skye, or myself that wakes up with the need to go to the toilet. My head is thick.  I cannot even think properly.  The pain is severe.  My…

My story started after having a flu shot. I worked in the pharmacy for years so fyou got them so you wouldn’t get sick.  I receieved my shot on Oct 1st , 2015. Week later I got sick with flu like symptoms, but flu test was negative. Within 4 days I felt better.  I notice…

During summer of 2009 I visited my Neurologist as always for my routine Migraine check in. My Migraines were worse and I was throwing up all the time, besides my Rt leg was dragging sometimes. He was not alarmed by that. He just increased my migraine meds and said “don’t worry about the dragging because…

This is how my life changed . I was  51 years old and visiting colleges with my daughter . I came home and had a bad cough which  I thought I caught from being on the plane.  Then  the  next day I couldn’t see.  I spent the next week in the hospital having every test…

I lost my vision in August of 2019 I want to an ophthalmologist who said I had no right has got a second opinion and went to a neuro ophthalmologist who said I had optic neuritis I began to go through a series of tests the next test was a spinal tap which put me…

I have NMOSD neuromeyeltis optica spectrum disorder. I gues you can say my NMOSD/TM is idiopathic they never found a reason why I have or got this, just came on. I am not Igg positive but my lesion goes from my T-6 to T-11 so it cannot be MS as I was originally diagnosed. I…