Patients

It is a day I will never forget. I woke up at 3am on Oct 4, 2012 with a fiery burning, sever pain that ran down from the base of my neck to the end of my rib cage and out like a fiery angel wing pattern across my back. It was unlike any pain…

In my early 20’s I was working when I noticed I had a bruise as well as a pain in my abdomen area. It elt like I had been doing crunches, and since I hadn’t I was concerned. I went to the hospital where they ran numerous tests and discovered I had something called ITP.…

My journey began in 1997 when I was just 17 years old but I didn’t know at that time. I had lost my vision in my left eye for about 5 days and I was given prednisone treatments to restore it. Over the years I did suffer with blurred vision at times but it would…

I was diagnosed with Pseudo tumor in 2003 by one doc and another said MS. I had optic neuritis in right eye and spots in the brain matter. Neg spinal fluid test for MS. A shunt was placed for draining spinal fluid. I lost most of the vision in my right eye and rarely felt…

In 1975 I was a 41 year old career oriented business man with athletic skills and aggressive personal goals. Until, one Sunday morning following an active day of skiing I awoke with a nagging pain in my left eye and blurred vision. I first attributed these symptoms as effects of the stress of activities the…

My NMO experience is minimal as I was just diagnosed on June 22, 2010. I was originally diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) on October 29, 2009. I started Copaxone on November 7, 2009 to help slow the progression of MS. I’ve been having vision issues for about two years now and it’s progressively getting worse.…

My name is Francisco Garcia. I wanted to share my story. I am really bad with dates. So, some of the information may not be chronologically perfect, but my feelings and experiences are engraved in my memories like it was yesterday. I will start when me and my wife, arrived in Texas in October of…

Hi, my name is Dionne Cooper i am a Hairstylist/CNA. I was a healthy 38 year old woman until March 2009, I was diagnosed in September 2009 with NMO. I had just got a form working at a local Hospitsl the night before, I had awaken the next morning with a pain so bad in…

My name is Kimberly. I started this journey in the summer of 1996. Water from the sprinkler felt hot on my legs. It actually felt like it was burning. Then I noticed that my legs were numb so I went to the doctor. The first doctor I saw asked me a bunch of questions….anything bad…

Hello my name is Cathy, and I have a 9yr old daughter named Alicia whom was just recently diagnosed with NMO in Nov of 2011. We live here in Colorado, and to my knowledge this is a rare disease. It all started in 2007 she started having eye pain in her left eye, and her…

Eight years ago at the age of 52 I was diagnosed with NMO. I became fully quadriplegic before I was able to be turned around by God’s grace, lots of determination and the fine work of my physician and care team. When looking back, I see several hints that I might be prone to, or…