Let's talk about MS today.
I had some symptoms today which drive me nuts. Today I was a weeble wobble but unlike my plastic counterparts...I do fall down!
This has to be one of my primary symptoms is the off balance feeling. Usually I sway to the right but today I felt like someone was pushing me forward. Boy that was a lot of fun!
My dog looked at me very strangely today as I came down the stairs on my bum. I didn't trust my balance to walk down like a normal person.
I rested a bit and the symptoms dissipated. Must have been brought on by heat. When is summer weather going to leave for good? I am so ready for autumn!
So tell me about your symptoms.
Here I will start. Here are the symptoms I have experienced with my MS thus far and...I have just begun this journey:
1. Feeling off balance.
2. Feeling the brain fog (being slow to respond and feeling almost drunk) This is the symptom I hate the most.
3. Slurred speech and difficulty talking. Volcanic talking where the words stay in my mouth and then explode in loudness when they finally erupt.
4. Spasticity or stiffness so I look like a pirate peg leg walking around.
5. Partial numbness and tingles.
6. Jolts and spasms of pain in my leg muscles.
7. Feeling like bugs are crawling on my leg.
8. Leg warmth like a warm bath. Feels like my leg is wet.
9. Eye issues like double vision, blurriness, flashes of light, seeing things in the periphery, etc.
10. Weakness in my right leg and hand. So my leg collapses and my hand finds it hard to pick up things and hold them.
11. Depression
12. Extreme fatigue like all the oxygen has drained from your muscles.
13. Foot drop...my right foot starts to drag behind me when walking.
Thing is...for now...everything comes back to normal. I am sure for a lot of you this is not the case.
So tell me about your experience. I am listening.
5 comments:
I know the foot drop feeling, but i dont have MS
What a long list, but be very difficult, my heart goes out to you.
Not to be rude, but I try not to focus on my disabilities. I like to try to do things I can. I take the stairs when I can. If I slur, so be it, repeat. I have a long litany of issues, but my encyclopedia of blessing bury it. (Looking at the silver lining or gazing through rose colored glasses may mask the issue, but it sure helps tamp down the depression)
everyone copes differently. i like to mix a little dark humor with reality myself. i am one who likes to take things on in a straightforward manner.
one of the things which has helped me on the on-line support groups was reading about other people's symptoms. for one thing i don't feel so crazy knowing that yeah...someone else feels these strange sensations of creepy crawlies on their legs or feeling like they are dizzy and falling over. i feel less alone and i feel safe to talk about these experiences.
i am new to all this MS stuff...and i need to talk about it.
and i will!
and i also realize some folk will not want to talk or share or even hear about these topics and i totally respect that decision as well.
Wow, what a long list :-(
I didn't realise you had so much to cope with.
I'm missing half of my right leg so I only have to worry about falling to the right. That makes me feel so much better - LOL
really and truly...it isn't so bad. things always return to normal so far. phillip...may i ask...how did you lose half of your leg?
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