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LiberalLoner

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1. Wow what an amazing story! I'm glad you are in a better place now!

Fri May 1, 2020, 08:15 AM

May 2020

I hope you will have only happy years ahead of you, and lots of them!

I can empathize because I had something wrong with me for decades without knowing what it was. I thought I was just a low energy person who had brain fog a lot and had spots of numbness all over my body off and on.

One day I felt pretty bad and my back started hurting something fierce and I couldn’t walk. Transverse Myelitis and it turns out I had multiple sclerosis for a very very long time. It explained everything. Even the depression, which comes because of brain inflammation from the MS. I wasn’t a lazy low energy person, I was a sick person. It was a bit of a relief to have a diagnosis because deep down I think I knew things were off.

All the best to you! Sometimes a diagnosis can be so helpful and such a relief.

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turns out i'm not mentally ill after all. [View all] mopinko May 2020 OP

Wow what an amazing story! I'm glad you are in a better place now! LiberalLoner May 2020 #1

ms was my darkest fear. mopinko May 2020 #2

I can tell you who you are! You are a strong, brave survivor who has thrived in LiberalLoner May 2020 #3

damn it. who's chopping onions??? mopinko May 2020 #5

and mopinko May 2020 #7

❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹 LiberalLoner May 2020 #12

Such a well-written, inspiring story DarthDem May 2020 #4

i can feel the noise leaving the system. it's amazing. mopinko May 2020 #6

Your truly palpable and uplifting story aside, what a KPN May 2020 #8

i'm chuckling mopinko May 2020 #9

Ruff seas made me a good sailor and then safeinOhio May 2020 #10

just fyi, mopinko May 2020 #13

In the mean time, I safeinOhio May 2020 #15

exercising your brain can work. mopinko May 2020 #16

Brain injuries can be so very bad. lark May 2020 #11

i do cbd at night. mopinko May 2020 #14

lol. my boyfriend gov cuomo was just talking about 'when life knocks you on your rear- mopinko May 2020 #17

also i made this post a while back in cannabis. mopinko May 2020 #18

Great news!!! Anon-C May 2020 #19

Well, dear, mop, I have happy tears in my eyes for you!!! elleng May 2020 #20

Fantastic! JudyM May 2020 #21

funny stray thought- mopinko May 2020 #23

What a great and upbeat post! cwydro May 2020 #22

i just have to kick this once to say- what thoughtful responses! mopinko May 2020 #24

((mopinko)) blm May 2020 #25

you. (((((((back atcha)))))) mopinko May 2020 #26

I love it vercetti2021 May 2020 #27

it's kinda scary, tbh. normal. who knew? mopinko May 2020 #28