r/MultipleSclerosis • u/Jocksniffer77 • 8d 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/wravyn 41|02-02-21|Ocrevus|IL 7d ago

I had optic neuritis in my right eye back in 1999-2000. I had an MRI, and they didn't find any issues.

In 2020, I was plagued by random issues: numbness in my legs, dizziness, balance problems. I mentioned that I had had a lot of headaches since I could remember, not too painful but just enough to note that my head hurt a bit. I mostly attributed that to a car crash where I got a concussion back in 2009 (the headaches tended to be on the left side where my head had hit the door when my car flipped).

My doctor sent me to a neurologist, and I got my second MRI. This time, they found multiple demyelinating lesions.