Went in for prep fatigue I thought I was overreacting about and came out with a diagnosis of MS.
Hey guys!! About two weeks ago I dropped a 45lb plate on my foot. At that point my biggest concern was how can I finish prep with this injury and how the heck did I manage to do that. As the days went on, things in my body kinda starting creating havoc. I was feeling extremely run down and oddly the other side that was uninjured I began to have struggles with balance. I tried to start using the bike to make up cardio but got horrific cramps and tightness. After a day or two of trying to stretch extra make sure potassium was up, etc. figured risk wasn’t worth reward would just give my lifts all I could and keep neat up and get back into my normal cardio when I could as my conditioning was solid at that point.
Here’s where things truly went haywire… the cramps turned into full on numbness and it was my left foot going numb and then my left hand. Still thought maybe electrolyte imbalance but let’s keep an eye on it. Next day it happened more frequently once when I was bathing my son which freaked me out. Next day I felt unbelievably exhausted like couldn’t keep my eyes open which isn’t normal and had two of those episodes within an hour of waking where I actually had to hold on to something so I wouldn’t fall. I still went to the gym… it happened at the gym. So I called it. I went to go home and my hand was numb the whole time I was opening and closing my first the entire time to try to force it awake so I decide to go right to urgent care where they convince me to go to the er. Bloodwork and ekg perfect so they run a ct “just to be safe” in which they discover a swollen mass they suspect is cancer I’m terrified and rush into mri and transported to a neurohospitwl. After lots of testing they’re now confident since there are also lesions on my spine and my symptoms are consistent with MS that this was “just” a MS flare up. I’m absolutely devastated they say MS is extremely treatable now and I can live a meaningful life but for the future of bodybuilding I don’t know and that IS my quality of life.
Are there any of you out there with MS who still compete?
Ps- makes sense now due to left hand weakness caused me to drop the plate.