Living with an illness you didn’t have any symptoms for a few years ago is very surreal. Sometimes, people who are diagnosed with a chronic illness have had symptoms for years prior to their diagnosis and so their diagnosis serves as a way to validate how sick they’ve felt.
I was diagnosed with relapse remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) in October 2019. In the years before my diagnosis, I wasn’t aware that I could potentially have a chronic illness – there was nothing that stood out to me in my life that would make me seek medical help or a diagnosis to explain what was happening to me.
That was, until I was involved in an accident a year prior to my RRMS diagnosis that left me with post-concussion syndrome. In October 2018, I was involved
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