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Hello, my name is Emily and I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in October. I lost vision in my right eye and was admitted to try to bring the inflammation down with iv steroids.

i believe I got MS in my 20s but back then they couldn’t diagnose me with only 1 lesion. So I lived life with mild symptoms and people saying it was all just anxiety. When I was in the hospital I couldn’t read the vision chart at all. I was 90 percent blind in my right eye. Right now it’s 70% gone. They did multiple mris on me which showed I had 4-5 lesions on my brain as well as spine. As well as optic neuritis. I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in October and have been declining. I get numbness all over now that comes and goes thankfully. Spasticity where my muscles feel tight and painful, blurry vision, speech issues where I forget at times how to finish sentences. Body pain, coordination problems, legs feel like noodles at times. My knees buckle when standing at times. The list goes on. I was also diagnosed with mast cell activation disorder this year as well so I have a lot of food intolerances. I currently have health insurance, but my co-pays are very high. I had to take out a loan to pay off some of them as well past credit card debt..I’m currently not working because of my vision and my disability the ophthalmologist told me that right now I wouldn’t pass a vision test if they were to retest me for driving.i used to be a caregiver and took care of MS patients so this is just so stressful for me.

I’m currently looking for any help, that would help me pay for my co-pays as well as any support to help cover some of my bills. Any additional funds would go towards food as well as gas to get to my appointments since where I have to go most of the time to my appointment is over an hour away. I currently have my boyfriend helping me a lot and he just can’t do it because he has his own problems to deal with, but he does help me by driving me to places and appointments. I also forgot to mention that I have alpha gal syndrome so it’s very hard for them to find a medication that doesn’t contain mammal. There’s an infusion, but I would lose part of my immune system and I need my immune system to deal with my other diagnosis’s.

I just recently had another MRI done on my spine as well as my brain and they found four new lesions, my doctor told me this can affect the left side of my body, which would cause it to go numb as well as speech issues.

I appreciate everybody who helps out and I thank you so much from the bottom of my heart I will post below proof of my diagnosis as well as any other proof. Much love.