WandaVision's Emma Caulfield Reveals She Has Been Diagnosed With Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
justjared.comEmma Caulfield has revealed that she’s been diagnosed with MS, aka multiple sclerosis. The 49-year-old actress, who is best known for her roles in WandaVision and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, spoke to Vanity Fair about it and described many of the symptoms she’s been experienced since 2010, that led to the detection of it. Click inside to read more… “Once upon a time, I had zero health problems,” Emma shared. “Back in 2010, I was working on [executive producer] Marti Noxon’s Gigantic, and prior to starting that job, I woke up one morning and the left side of my face felt like there were a million ants crawling on it.
That feeling when you’ve sat in a position too long? … The feeling’s gone and it’s coming back like a rush of blood.” She explained, “Then it just sort of went, I wouldn’t say completely numb, because I could still scratch it and feel my nails.
But it was extremely dull. I went to my acupuncturist, and he was like, ‘I don’t know, man. Maybe you have Bell’s palsy?’” On her acupuncturist insistence, Emma did go for an MRI. “I had five minutes down or whatever.
And he was like: ‘You have MS.’ Just like that,” she recalled. “It was like an out-of-body experience. I’m like, ‘No, that’s not possible.’ I’m like, ‘What are you talking about?’” Emma adds that the neurologist “was very matter-of-fact about it. ‘Well, you can get a second opinion…’ It was literally a kind of nightmare….
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