Re: CAN I HAVE KIDS?

In Reply to: CAN I HAVE KIDS? posted by HEATHER on August 27, 2000 at 12:44:45:

: I was first taken ill in 1984. Since then I have had several different types of problems and in 1988 was diagnosed with MS. On the whole I have dealt with MS pretty OK in that I only take alternative medicine and have not needed any drugs. when I was 36 I found myself pregnant and although I had been told in the past never to have children I went ahead with the pregnancy. My son is a straping 4 year old. I never jumped to a worse condition if anything I have experienced pains/cramping/spasms in my right leg which could have happened anyway and is a follow up from the paralised foot I had in 1984. I have been told it might have been there before I was pregnant and the hormone level change that occurs in pregnancy made my leg feel worse. If I could bottle the feeling of the way I felt during my pregancy I would take it for the rest of my life. Everyone said I certainly looked great. ( I think the phraise is BLOSSOMED)
Obvoulsly we are all reacting to MS in different ways but for me pregancy was great and I would do it again.