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My name is James, and I was diagnosed with multiple systems atrophy type C, which is the type that mostly affects the cerebellum, about 50 years old, I've been married to the same wonderful woman for seventeen. years, and I live in Pflugerville, a small suburb of Austin, Texas.

 I noticed the onset of MSA symptoms about seven years ago, but after repeated visits to my primary physician and several specialists, I couldn't get a firm diagnosis of my real problem.  I thought my unsteady gait, slurred speech, and blurry vision were due mostly to my age and other factors, like smoking a vaporizer, PTSD, sleep apnea, some medications I was taking, a flu shot--the possible cause, or causes, were myriad.
It wasn't until June 2016, and after a lengthy process of elimination, that a neurologist was able to look at MRI images of my brain and tell me--with confidence--that I am afflicted with MSA.