Multiple Sclerosis rare?
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Is multiple sclerosis a rare disease? If I am a seventeen year old male experiencing odd symptoms should I even be worried that I have MS. 2 doctors and 1 neurologist have told me it’s not MS. But after reading all the symptoms of MS I’m worried they’re wrong.
Yes, MS is a rare disease since only .1% of people in the world ever get it. Female caucasians are far more apt to get it than men. I don’t know where you live but the incidence of MS in the United States is 30 per 100,000 people and the majority of them are women not men. I have MS and I can tell you that if you have MS, the tingling is pretty much relentless. It NEVER lasts for just a few seconds. It is pretty much a 24 hour thing.
Usually, a patient is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis between 20 and 50 years of age, but multiple sclerosis has been diagnosed in children and in the elderly. Multiple sclerosis is twice as likely to occur in Caucasians as in any other group. Women are twice as likely as men to be affected by multiple sclerosis earlier in life.
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I’ve had MS for thirteen years, and never experienced much tingling. The symptoms can be quite different for different people.
Its unlikely you have MS. If you do and its progressing so slow that a neurologist can’t diagnose it, then its going to be Relapsing-Remitting and you’ll have opportunity over time to do something about it.