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Age of Diagnosis

JohnnieBear  has a thread that asks you to list what age you were when you were given the dx of MS.  I would love to see this information as numbers/percentages as well.  Please take the time to indicate your age at the time of your MS diagnosis. Thanks, Lulu
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1702168 tn?1307910841
I was diagnosed ay 54.  symptoms from about 40.
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age 69, so raspberries to all the neuro's who say people over 50 don't get MS, been trying for Dx since 1981
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900662 tn?1469390305
Bump
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1660929 tn?1319758789
I was diagnosed at age 30 but had symptoms many years before and not knowing it was MS.
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198419 tn?1360242356
Was dx'd at 37 - Was one of the lucky ones, and dx came only months after initial issues.
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1253197 tn?1331209110
I was diagnosed at age of 46

First symptoms up to 6 years earlier but I had no idea my episodes of fatigue were MS.
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572651 tn?1530999357
bump to tandem with Quix's poll on length to dx
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147426 tn?1317265632
My first symptoms were at age 47, but diagnosed at 55.

Quix
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382218 tn?1341181487
Dx'ed at age 39.  Experienced first symptom - Lhermitte's sign - at age 38.
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611606 tn?1315517767
I was DX on Jan.29,1986, but possibly had it since early 70's, who knows for sure.
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1116556 tn?1345115906
Dx at 31 with ON and numbness.  First symptoms at 19 with spacticity in hips.
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First symptoms that I remember age 36.
Dx age 37...I'm 39 now.
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755322 tn?1330269114
Was diagnosed at 53 but had symptoms, (optic neuritis, numbness in legs) at least 10 years before. All happened after I quit working out in the sunshine all year.
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667078 tn?1316000935
I was 46 when diagnosed. I was first hospitalized at age 2 and went to Neurologists through out my childhood and did not know it because my parents thought it was better if I did not know.. In the 1960's they did not know children could get MS. I was so used to symptoms and weird reflexes etc. I thought it was normal until my PCP told me it was not and sent me to a series of Neurologists. They had trouble diagnosing me because I did not have attacks and basically did not complain about anything.

Alex
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1637739 tn?1371688706
I was 37 - probably had it for 10 or more years before but had no clue.  Shocker!!
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738075 tn?1330575844
Symptoms started at about age 27.
Diagnosed at age 50.
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1710955 tn?1309446473
32
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1447542 tn?1318027081
Actually, shortly after my 33rd birthday. Oops. going back to bed now.
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1447542 tn?1318027081
I was diagnosed shortly after my 32nd birthday.
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294425 tn?1288528395
I was diagnosed at age 44.
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DX at 40  symptoms appeared at age 36
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1748105 tn?1314473206
Symptoms started at age 10, maybe earlier. Diagnosed at 22.
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I was diagnosed last year at age 38.  
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