tongue bitting,age and MS

[funnylegs4]

I have a friend with a family history of MS and they wanted to know if it was possible for tongue bitting to be a symptom? Also can you get MS at any age?

[Catdancer]

Yes, you can get MS at any age, and having a family history of it might increase your chances of getting it......at least according to some researchers.

Tongue biting: probably not a symptom, but the tongue is a muscle....so if it is weakened because of nerve damage, or the face or jaw weakened, difficulty eating nor swallowing could lead to tongue biting, I suppose

[agate]

Maybe if one of those jaw muscles was going into spasm, it would cause tongue-biting?

There's been quite a lot of attention to MS in children recently. For a long time it sounded as if it almost never cropped up in anyone under about the age of 20 but they've been finding out that kids can have MS too. And people over 40 or 50 or even beyond can develop MS.

[Howie]

I was 44 when Dxed.

[SalpalSally]

What uppity cats said!

[Jen's Solitude]

I have had tongue-biting problems and swallowing problems too. The problem isn't as bad these days but I did just bite my tongue in this past week. Does feel like a spastic jaw tightening thing and I do not feel a lot of pain it is just a nuisance and weird to me.

[Howie]

DAR, that's good you don't have a lot of pain when you do it because I've accidently done it a few times in my life, and it HURTS!

[funnylegs4]

Can you get MS if you are over 65? THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR REPLIES!

[Howie]

Can you get MS if you are over 65? THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR REPLIES!

It would be very unusual to develop MS at that age, but it is possible.

[Virginia]

I am not sure you develop it at that age, however it is possible to have it and not be diagnosed until you are that old. I was 63 when diagnosed.

[agate]

I thought I remembered hearing about some people who were diagnosed at around 65, and in a few seconds of Google search I found a site where at least one person was diagnosed at age 65.

[Howie]

Maybe it's a whole new classification of MS like, "Late Onset MS".

[Parsi]

I've bitten my tongue several times but never associated it with MS. In fact I think it was prior to suspicion of MS.

[agate]

Well, there's a statement at the top of the page when you visit this board--a description of MS:

The disorder is most commonly diagnosed between ages 20 and 40, but can be seen at any age

Parsi, I've bitten my tongue quite a few times but thought it was just my somewhat misaligned jaw that was responsible. If funnylegs is talking about someone whose tongue-biting happens often--once a day or so--that might be a symptom of something. In any case it would be annoying.

[Catdancer]

I googled tongue biting dementia and came up with severe hits. I did that because I vaguely remembered someone talking about that at a lecture. Most if the dementias star at older ages, with a few exceptions, and tongue biting and other mouth movements seem common in them.