For years, Selma Blair battled unexplained pain and crippling fatigue while doctors dismissed her symptoms.

Blair revealed that despite experiencing symptoms since childhood, her multiple sclerosis (MS) wasn’t diagnosed until she was in her 40s.

“I was diagnosed with relapsing [remitting] MS in 2018. It turned out I probably had juvenile MS as my first optical neuritis was when I was about seven, which left me with a lazy eye from nerve damage. But there were a lot of things missed my whole life,” Blair said at the Flow Space Women’s Health Summit, according to Variety.

She described years of excruciating pain and countless hospital stays, while doctors brushed off her symptoms.

“I had CAT scans as a kid, and I had doctor visits, and I stayed in hospitals for weeks at a time,” Blair

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