I was accepted into nursing school last week. Three days ago I was diagnosed with MS. I’m so scared.
Went in to the ER because I had numbness from my abdomen down to my feet. After an MRI, they found multiple lesions on my brain and a few on my spine. They said it was caught early, but after a lumbar puncture, it’s been determined I have relapsing remitting MS.
Right now until I’m on some sort of DMT, I’m on a prednisone taper to help with the numbness, but my brain frog is so insane that I have trouble concentrating, and I’m not sure if it’s right for me to start going into nursing school in August, when I don’t know where I’ll be in the future, or what I could even do. I have no idea what my next relapse could look like, or if this numbness and fog is going to go away or get worse.
The absolute worst part of being in the hospital was the nurses coming in and congratulating me on getting accepted, and immediately following it up with “there are still some things you can do as a nurse”
I’m so sad, and so terrified. Right now I’m sitting in my office at work crying because I can’t do the most simple tasks because of the brain fog that I can’t tell if it’s coming from the prednisone or just the MS in general.