hi gretchen, after close to 20 years we have tried every kind of doctors, medicines, store bought 'helpers', altertanives, etal. have been pretty consistant on ms helpers from ms society and on. i do...
i've had ms 18+ years, walked with various help and now the progressive has shown up the last 1 1/2 years. i've quiclky have become totally bedridden. my husband picks me up for everything as i've...
ty for getting back so quick. i am very used to uti's and do not have one at this time. have had this problem over the years but seems to have gotten alot worse since ive become wc/bedridden. always...
any suggestions for incontinence??? my husband is changing our bed 2-4 X @day. i wear depends and we have 'rubber'pad under sheet and a couple towels under me. i am where i need to be picked up to...
thats pretty common for me. ive had ms 18 yrs and it has just gotten worse/more common over the years,sorry. i take baclofen for it and should also take tegratol but hate to get too much rx im my...
Welcome-I am new myself. You've already made the 1st step to getting out by joining this forum. Wonderful folks all banded together by a frusturating disease. As you read thru posts you'll find alot...
hi shiela. my heart goes out to you as it did to myself the first time that happed in a department store and tried to do everything i could in the handicap bathroom form my wheelchair. that was just...
multiple, of course, means alot. sclerosis means scarring. just think if you cut your hand you have a cut- it takes a while to form a scar. the scar in ms land is those white spots/liasons that the...
p.s. it's not a relapse, it's an excabercation. aka known as flare up or episode. that's doctot talk as far as i know! /community/emoticons/cool.gif ...
for myself the numbness/tingling lasts constantly over a week at worst. sorry. frannie /community/emoticons/smile.gif ...
i'm on the stormy oregon coast....
that's exactly how i started 17 years ago. for me, ms symptoms come and eventually go but do leave residual effects. i was put on oral steroinds for the on, but eventually after a few more episodes...
hi colee, i've been homebound to the point of if i do/can go anywhere it's with my husband pushing me in wheelchair. years ago i could use my walker with 'trusted' friends but its hard to depend on...
hi tL, i've had ms 17+ yrs and just the past few months my nerves are shot-just as you'd described. don't remember it ever being this bad. i don't think it has anything to do w/holidays but could...
Hi dv, Read my posting from yesterday 'mri diagnosing 1st symptom' or something like that. That may help some answers. There's nothing worse than the unknown and we have believed that since childhood...
I've taken up watercolor painting as therapy and pasttime when waiting for a picture to dry is why I kpop up online so fast!I just joined this forum last week looks like you did too! I was diagonised...
I've had ms over 17 years and many things may have changed in the medical profression since my diagnosis. I was 'lucky' enough to have textbook ms. 1st symptom was optic neuritis and was sent by md...
My 1st symptom was optic neuritis tho my neuro-or soon to be neuro- said and mri during an attack or soon after will not show the plaques in an mri as they are not yet formed. Sclerosis=scarring and...
I've been back in the wheelchair since summer, went thru the 'poor me's', joined this forum which is some great therapy I didn't expect. Finally decided to get out among 'the living'. Amazing how...
Hi Singlemama, When I was diagnosed 17 years ago my neuro said the 1 attack would not show those white spots in an mri indicating ms as they are a type of scarring<sclerosis=scars>as it takes a...
hi cyndi, i grew up crocheting and now it either doesn't catch my attetion or my hands are no so agile. i took up watercolor painting this summer and is the most rewarding therapy i've ever had. i'm...
I had horrible bouts ON the 1st 5 or so years of ms then they gradually went away. Steroids did not help only made me grouchy and fat. ON comes and GOES on it's own. I joined the state library for...
Alot of meds cause weight gain and most ms folks are on numerous rx. I was on so much-all prescribed by neurolgist that I was in 2 seperate delirum comas. The 2nd one lasted 3 weeks and when I came...
I was a happy housewife, part time working. All I did was go to grocery store, take off my sunglasses, and thought I'd must have looked directly into the sun, ( like a flashbulb going off). Which...
hi rhonda/kimberly. you are both 'moderaters' which means?????????volunteers/founders/'hot line'? nonetheless ty for replying soon. i'm about over my poor me's and getting back on track. amazing how...
I am a new member. I've had ms over 17 years and have experienced about every symptom in the generic ms description. I do now have the use of my hands and sight for which I am thankful, most of the...