Hello, I'm Emily + I'm 14 years of age.
I was diagnosed with ADEM + Optical Nuritis 2 months ago.

Early weeks of October'08, I was suffering with severe headaches, however thought nothing of it as prior to this i had quite a nasty bump to the head playing rugby. Eventually, the headaches got so bad i found it very difficult to get up in the mornings for school, and even to move around. My dad took me down to Port Talbot Hospital where i was briefly examined but sent away with aparently "too strong a course of Co-Codamol." I was kept off school because after taking 1 or 2 tablets, i started vomitting and could not keep food or drink down.

On the 16th October'08 i woke with blurryness in my left eye, which also affected my balance, so i was taken down to Cwmafan Health Centre, where my doctor arranged an oppointment with the Eye Specialist in Singleton Hospital.

On the 17th October'08 i went to Singleton Hospital where i was examined by the Eye Specialist who said he saw that i had Optical Nuritis. This is inflamation of the nerves at the back of the eye. I was admitted into the Childrens Ward in Singleton Hospital, where i stayed for Friday Night +Saturday Night and transferred on Sunday to Morriston Hospital.

When i arrived at Morrison Hospital i had a line inserted into my hand because i could not keep anything down, so the anit-biotics had to be inserted intreveniously. After the first couple of days of being in Morriston, i had my first MRI Scan, luckily they found no Tumours or any obvious things. Then i had to have my first of 3 lumber punctures, these were extremely painful but showed the doctors what they needed to see. They found around 300 protein cells, which is way more that what a normal body should have so they knew there was something wrong.

After about a week or so, i had to go back to Singleton Hospital for another eye check up, photographs of my eye+ a field of view test. The results of my f.of.v test was that the perifferal vision in my left eye [which is where i had Optical Nuritis] was much weaker than my right, even though my vision had improved! When i went back to Morriston i had an eye to brain response test, where they stuck electrodes to the back of my head, this showed that the signals getting to my brain were slower than average!

After numerous blood tests, all other sorts of tests and scans of my chest... my consultant, Dr.Gareth Thomas came to the conclusion that i had ADEM. AcuteDisseminatedEnchefloMyelitis! Throughout my first stat in hospital, i had many problems with my bladder where i could not pass water, which was rather painful, but the anti-biotics definately helped, despite the pain of having lots of new lines!! The day before i was let out of Hospital, in the morning i was very, very hot and had a temperature. As i walked into the bathroom, the change of temperature made my head spin and unfortunately i collapsed! It was very scary but luckily i was put on Oxygen and got my head together

When i was finally allowed out of Hospital, i was very weak and had lost quite a bit of weight, but luckily i am usually quite a fit and sporty girl so it was mostly muscle i had lost, not fat! However, i had great difficulty walking, sleeping, eating, drinking +my balance was awful! I had to cling on to someone whenever i wanted to go somewhere because i was very unsteady on my feet. While being at home, my headaches +my vision started to clear and i was able to read books, watch tv +go on the computer. After a week or so, i started getting dizzy spells whenever i got up to start walking +i actually collapsed about 5 times before one morning i woke up with the most excruciating pain in my head where i was once again taken into Morriston Hospital.

In Hospital, i had great difficulty sleeping the one night that i was in, but i was given regular paracetamol + ibuprofen to relieve the pain. I then had to have different medication called Gabapentin to t

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