Remembering when it first began…

[FONT=”Century Gothic”][FONT=”Comic Sans MS”][SIZE=”2″]As we all know it is different for everyone, in my case it first began as strange muscle twitching in my legs and abdomen which was gradually accompanied by pins and needles feelings (like you feel when your leg goes to sleep) and ice-pick shooting pains in my legs, then increasing numbness in my feet and up into my calves; from my first symptoms to diagnosis was about five years. It took that long to diagnose because I also had severe back problems and the doctor believed that was all that was wrong… that is until he himself suffered a very severe episode of GBS and it just happened that my next follow up appointment with him was only a few weeks after he had recovered enough to return to work… he sent me to a great local neurologist who gave me the initial dx and he then sent me to Dr. Shinn Oh at UAB for a confirming 2nd opinion and the rest is history…
Blessings,[/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT]