MS affects everyone differently and at different rates and in different ways.
Most people normally experience some kind of odd sensory changes first - pins and needles or burning or tingling in their extremities. Or numbness. Then later symptoms happen. It usually affects balance, vision, walking ability, and the gastrointestinal tract/bowel/bladder. Sexual dysfunction is also often common.
In me personally, whatever undiagnosed illness I have or whatever MDMA induced neuropathy I have, causes my stomach and lower back to become inflamed and painful, my jaw and throat to feel tight and restrictive with occasional, infrequent (but currently active) minor problems swallowing, sexual dysfunction, my legs and arms to feel weak and with tingling or 'heaviness', brain fog like spaceyness. The symptoms come and go and seem to flare arbitrarily.
I also have had visual snow, since long before I did the MDMA, which manifests as static in dark light, some floaters, light sensitivity, odd colouring of my visual field, pain, pressure and more. I also have lazy eyes (since I was a child) and I'm myopic.
I have nearly every presenting symptom for MS but my brain MRI came back clear, that's all I can tell you. I'm much more starting to believe I possibly have a chiari malformation as Cotcha proposed, that was harshly worsened by the MDMA. That my symptoms are so much worse when I bend or put pressure on my neck would indicate that, and the symptoms do overlap somewhat. Or I do just plum have MS and it's too early to show up on a scan. I've also had severe OCD in the past.
Your symptoms sound quite atypical of MS, seemingly all localised to your head bar the tremors. I have heard other MDMA users on here say that they had varying degrees of tremor afterwards so it's not unheard of.
I'm no drugs expert, I did the relatively tame if not insignificant dose of 150mg MDMA once as a half drunk lark with a more experienced friend following a bad day, he was fine and I had a great experience on the night and then this all happened afterwards. I'm 7 months in now, in someways better than I was at the start and in others worse. I cant tell how much is me slowly improving or just getting used to this neuropathic nightmare. It's fallen into a repetitive pattern of flares and remissions on a near-monthly basis, but each relapse generally feeling a little less intense.
Yesterday I got my 'good' news, and felt pretty great, so great I did about 90 minutes walk in three chunks. Then my leg felt so heavy and tired I had to take painkillers. Then last night, my belly and lower back blew up again, my throat is tight when I eat again and I felt nauseous again. It's crazy.
Sorry I can't offer anymore help, all I can say is you probably don't have MS, but that doesn't help the physical nightmare or mental rollercoaster does it? If you do need someone to vent though, feel free to send me a msg.
Most people normally experience some kind of odd sensory changes first - pins and needles or burning or tingling in their extremities. Or numbness. Then later symptoms happen. It usually affects balance, vision, walking ability, and the gastrointestinal tract/bowel/bladder. Sexual dysfunction is also often common.
In me personally, whatever undiagnosed illness I have or whatever MDMA induced neuropathy I have, causes my stomach and lower back to become inflamed and painful, my jaw and throat to feel tight and restrictive with occasional, infrequent (but currently active) minor problems swallowing, sexual dysfunction, my legs and arms to feel weak and with tingling or 'heaviness', brain fog like spaceyness. The symptoms come and go and seem to flare arbitrarily.
I also have had visual snow, since long before I did the MDMA, which manifests as static in dark light, some floaters, light sensitivity, odd colouring of my visual field, pain, pressure and more. I also have lazy eyes (since I was a child) and I'm myopic.
I have nearly every presenting symptom for MS but my brain MRI came back clear, that's all I can tell you. I'm much more starting to believe I possibly have a chiari malformation as Cotcha proposed, that was harshly worsened by the MDMA. That my symptoms are so much worse when I bend or put pressure on my neck would indicate that, and the symptoms do overlap somewhat. Or I do just plum have MS and it's too early to show up on a scan. I've also had severe OCD in the past.
Your symptoms sound quite atypical of MS, seemingly all localised to your head bar the tremors. I have heard other MDMA users on here say that they had varying degrees of tremor afterwards so it's not unheard of.
I'm no drugs expert, I did the relatively tame if not insignificant dose of 150mg MDMA once as a half drunk lark with a more experienced friend following a bad day, he was fine and I had a great experience on the night and then this all happened afterwards. I'm 7 months in now, in someways better than I was at the start and in others worse. I cant tell how much is me slowly improving or just getting used to this neuropathic nightmare. It's fallen into a repetitive pattern of flares and remissions on a near-monthly basis, but each relapse generally feeling a little less intense.
Yesterday I got my 'good' news, and felt pretty great, so great I did about 90 minutes walk in three chunks. Then my leg felt so heavy and tired I had to take painkillers. Then last night, my belly and lower back blew up again, my throat is tight when I eat again and I felt nauseous again. It's crazy.
Sorry I can't offer anymore help, all I can say is you probably don't have MS, but that doesn't help the physical nightmare or mental rollercoaster does it? If you do need someone to vent though, feel free to send me a msg.
