(NEW YORK) Angelina Cubero said she spent nearly a decade of her life going to doctors, trying to find out why she experienced migraines, brain fog numbness and pain in her legs, and other unexplained symptoms. "I would go to the doctor, I would go to the ER, I would go to urgent cares,
Angelina Cubero(NEW YORK) Angelina Cubero said she spent nearly a decade of her life going to doctors, trying to find out why she experienced migraines, brain fog numbness and pain in her legs, and other unexplained symptoms.
"I would go to the doctor, I would go to the ER, I would go to urgent cares, I would go to my primary doctor, I d go to a specialist, another specialist, and I wasn t really getting any answers," Cubero, 27, told ABC News Good Morning America. "They would say, You look fine. You don t look sick. All your tests seemed normal to me. . The only reason they told me was anxiety."
Cubero, who lives in Jersey City, New Jersey, said it was only three years ago, in 2020, that she underwent a second brain magnetic resonance imaging scan, or MRI, where doctors discovered multiple lesions, or plaques, in her brain.
The discovery led to a diagnosis of a disease Cubero said she had never heard of, multiple sclerosis.
"I d never heard of MS,&quo