Happy New Year 2010!

I write articles about my life and my disease which is multiple sclerosis. I used to put them on different e-zines on the internet. I stopped writing about 1.5 years ago. I had some disappointments in my life and I just didn't feel like sharing my life anymore with other people. Now, I'm going to start writing this blog because I think I have something to tell people with multiple sclerosis. I think my writing also helps newly diagnosed people so they understand what can possibly happen to them. I also have to admit that it's cathartic for me to write about my health.

I was diagnosed in July of 1991. Now that I know the symptoms of MS I can date it back to at least 1976. Back then the symptoms were very infrequent so I never bothered to go to a doctor. An example of this was at junior college. One week I was running to the restrooms to urinate after each class. I was drinking alot of beer back then so I thought it was just the result of drinking too much beer the night before. However, I do remember saying this to myself on one of my trips to the toilet, "I wonder if I could have diabetes?"

Now I didn't know anything about diabetes but I'd heard or read that people with diabetes urinate alot. It's difficult to determine if my urination problems that week at junior college was my MS or something else? I think now that it was an early sign of MS but I didn't pay too much attention to it back then. I was enjoying my new life as a college man. Now that I know what I know it could have been an exacerbation that lasted just one week.