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Though I've lived on the Texas gulf coast for the last 23 years, I was raised in Kansas. I am of northern European ancestry. I drank milk by the gallon. And, my grandfather had MS. In other words, I had all the risk factors stacked against me. (I didn't know it though, because my grandfather was never diagnosed. All they knew was that he had a lot of neurological problems.) I started RR with my first symptoms in 1982. I was diagnosed in 1989, and went SP in 1997. The first symptom I remember, I was 25 in 1982 when one day after repairing one of the instruments in our lab I found it more difficult than expected getting up off the floor. I recall commenting that I had been taught you weren't over the hill until 30. Subsequently, I had many episodes of lost feeling that would last hours or days. I would just ignore them. Once I started having l'Hermittes's sign, I thought I knew the source of the problems, spinal compression from playing basketball.
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