gbrodan1945,
Good morning. I was 65 yo when dx with MS. I was dx w/fibromyalgia at age 32 about a year after the birth of my child. I had all the “fibro” symptoms and complaints. My primary doctor at the time advised that I take the prescribed medicine (don’t recall what he started me on, but it was an anti depressant, though I was not depressed) & to get back into the gym. I did both and for the next 30+ years I followed that advice while trying every SSRI out there off branded for treatment of fibro. Not much helped though we thought I had entered a very long phase of remission.

Years later, It became readily apparent that with the new physiologic & neurological symptoms that something else was going on. I was worked up for various autoimmune diseases, lupus included and that’s when I had the spinal tap/lumbar puncture and it confirmed MS.

65 yo was age at dx.