Firefighter from Wishaw battling MS will fly to Mexico for treatment that could change his life

A firefighter from Wishaw who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis earlier this year is attempting to raise thousands of pounds for life-changing treatment in Mexico.David Fleming, 46, first noticed something wasn’t quite right while undergoing a fitness test for his work around three-and-a-half years ago.The dad-of-two thought he’d trapped a nerve but after a series of medical tests was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in January.David said: “I was doing a fitness test and my leg started dragging.

I was alright to start with, but as I went up the levels in the bleep test it was noticeable that it was starting to drag.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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I’ve always went to the gym and thought I’d done something to it there so I went for scans on my back but they found nothing significant.“Then I went for MRI scans on my head and spine and they found lesions.“I went through two years of testing and I was diagnosed with MS last January but they still haven’t diagnosed a sub-type.”There are different sub-types of MS and David believes that the signs point to him having Primary Progressive MS, which only affects 10 to 15 per cent of those diagnosed with the autoimmune disease that affects the brain, spinal cord and central nervous system.W