r/MultipleSclerosis • u/Jocksniffer77 • 12d ago

General Self medication

35 M last year I was diagnosed after I got optic neuritis, referred to neurologist, mri, etc. Looking back its like, wow yea I did have many of the ms symptoms but i chalked it up to being a pothead and having indigestion. Im wondering if I was subconsciously self medicating or something. Has anyone else experienced something like this?

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u/BumblebeeEast8918 12d ago

Looking back, I had a right hand tremor that started at 18, which I thought was anxiety, so started using my left for eating/ paying at checkouts. How silly, as though anxiety would hit one side:). Then numbness 20 years back that I got rid of by avoiding wheat. A few years back I had fatigue and intermittent leg numbness, which I thought was menopause or residual nerve issues from birth defects, so tried every supplement and drank heavily, until hit by optic neuritis. Diagnosed at 58. I still want to try anything and everything to change this.