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I was diagnosed with Neuromyelitis Optica in June of 2012 after two hospitalizations totaling 5 months, during which I lost all my strength, ability to move and all feeling from […]
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The Diagnosis My NMO journey started after my 29th birthday in January 2016. I had a headache that would not go away. It was unlike anything I had experienced before. […]
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Meet Dionne, a vibrant 46-year old, former nurse, mother of 2 from New Orleans, Louisiana who has been living with NMO since 2009. Click below to watch Dionne share her […]
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She thought she had a bad sunburn… Lillian had gone camping with her daughter and her Girl Scout troop in September of 2015. When she returned home, her shoulders and […]
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I was diagnosed with NMO on March 10, 2015… An MRI that was done while I was receiving inpatient care for sudden paralysis of my lower limbs showed a spinal […]
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My name is Jamie and I am Adam’s partner of 17 years. This is Adam’s NMO story from my perspective… Everything was perfect in our lives; Adam had a good […]
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On a warm February evening at the University of Miami, I sat in my Music Business lecture and wondered from where this strange soreness had come. There was a lingering […]
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I was an on-call intern late one night at the Johns Hopkins Hospital when I met a young woman who presented with weakness and pain in her legs. This was […]
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February 1st, 2011 – I began having vision problems in my left eye and a few days later, it got drastically worse. I went to the Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary’s […]
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Since she already had been diagnosed with lupus, Raynaud syndrome, and Sjogren’s syndrome, Adria didn’t think much about the tingling in her hands that started in February of 2016. Besides, […]
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