Selma Blair Recalls Doctors Dismissing Her Early MS Symptoms as a Teen

Selma Blair’s lifelong health struggles were signs of multiple sclerosis that doctors wouldn’t acknowledge until she was in her 40s. “I was diagnosed with relapsing limiting 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,” Blair, 53, said at the Flow Space Women’s Health Summit earlier this month. “But there were a lot of things missed my whole life.” Blair recalled consistent pain, fatigue and neurological problems that went undiagnosed. “I had CAT scans as a kid, and I had doctor vi