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Linda Elsegood: I'd like to introduce Anne from France who has Multiple Sclerosis. Welcome, Anne.
Anne (France): Thank you!
Linda Elsegood: Could you tell us when you first started to notice MS symptoms.
Anne (France): I first started to notice MS symptoms when I was in my mid-thirties. They were urgency, left foot dragged a bit.
Linda Elsegood: And when were you finally diagnosed?
Anne (France): I was finally diagnosed because I went to an optician because I wasn't being able to see red, the colour red. And he said to me: "You need to go and see your doctor." So, he obviously knew what it was. znd I knew as well, I suppose. So I went to the doctor who sent me to a neurologist, and they diagnose it in 1981.
Linda Elsegood: So how did your Ms behave between 1981 and when you found LDN?
Anne (France): I had very odd social behaviour because the relapse was so different. Sometimes it would be the eyes that were very much affected, legs walking, losing balance, a loss of energy.
Linda Elsegood: Were you having a lot of pain at that time?
Anne (France): Yes, I had a lot of pain too.
Linda Elsegood: Just trying to remember what you told me earlier. So what about fatigue?
Anne (France): Fatigue was one of the things for me. I was teaching at the time and, once or twice I think my lessons must be more boring than I realized.
I went to sleep in my own lessons.
Linda Elsegood: And what about cognitive problems?
Anne (France): I was having that as well.
Linda Elsegood: So how did you hear about LDN?
Anne (France): I read about LDN in the magazine, New Pathways, and it seemed to be a good thing to try, so I had a go and I was very glad I did.
Linda Elsegood: Okay. How easy was it for you to obtain a prescription?
Anne (France): Very difficult actually, because no one would give me a prescription until I went privately to a neurologist and honestly, in a lot of pain at that time, he didn't know what to do to help me. And I asked him, what about trying it? As you know, there's no harm in getting you to go. And he said: " Right, you go ahead." He would write me a prescription. That was great. I was really overjoyed. And after that took the prescription to the pharmacy and haven't any problem in getting it. And it was fine. And after that, my doctor wrote one every time I needed it.
Linda Elsegood: What year did you start LDN?
Anne (France): I think it was in 2001. You are now in 2011, right?
Linda Elsegood: So when you first started, did you notice any introductory side effects?
Anne (France): I didn't know if there are any side effects except that the pain was much less. I was so grateful for that. I was always convinced right from the beginning when I didn't really believe that I had Ms, I couldn't really believe it. I thought.
that was being confronted with lots of problems in my life and I've always overcome them. So that was one of the ways it helped me to overcome it, and I was so glad.
Linda Elsegood: So what would you say LDN has done for you?
Anne (France): It got rid of the pain. I can't speak for everyone, of course, but it's helped me a lot in that way, and I was very grateful to that.
Linda Elsegood: Did it help with any of your other symptoms?
Anne (France): It didn't really help with fatigue because I just got as tired as I was before but I maybe have a little less.
Linda Elsegood: And what about cognitively?
Anne (France): I would like to say that it helps but unfortunately, no.
Linda Elsegood: So really what it's done for you is helped with the pain. What would you say to other people who are contemplating trying LDN?
Anne (France): I would say definitely try it and if you can't find that your local GP write a prescription for you, perhaps do as I did and go privately and say you wanted to give it a try.
Linda Elsegood: Okay. Is there anything you would like to add?
Anne (France): I think that family knowing that there was something there actually helped and doctors were there was a wonderful support.
Linda Elsegood: Okay. Thank you.
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