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Preparing for your neurologist appointment

Preparing for your neurologist appointment

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There are steps recommended to prepare for your doctor appointment. Write down any new symptoms you’ve been experiencing if this is your ongoing doctor or all symptoms if this is a new doctor. Bring any test results you’ve received from any other doctors even if you don’t think they aren’t relevant. Have a list of all the medicine you are currently taking which should include anything non-prescription as well. Make a list of you questions or concerns before hand. If…

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Is one of the medicines working?

Is one of the medicines working?

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Yesterday I wanted to write a post about which medicines are working. I woke up yesterday feeling great, great as far as a good MS day. I worked out Saturday, Sunday and Monday having no pain in my arm or shoulder.  What was more amazing was my stamina. I was able to get through each workout. Even though I napped all three days, I’ve been napping most afternoons when I haven’t worked out Anyway. What I noticed is my legs…

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Beachbody on demand, workout with MS

Beachbody on demand, workout with MS

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Go Me!!! I haven’t worked out on my own since sometime in June thanks to my shoulder tendonitis. Against my will, every time I tried to do something I felt it in my shoulder and I knew if I continued, the pain would be back until I ended up needing another cortisone shot. A shot I’m only allowed to receive once every 3 months. It killed me to stop. I worked out 6 days a week for years. I had…

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I am simply happy

I am simply happy

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I have to admit something, since I started taking Prozac again, I stopped crying over everything. I was literally crying over everything good and bad, happy and sad, it didn’t matter. I didn’t want to believe it but I was not altogether. It’s been maybe 5-6 months I’ve been back on it and I realized something the other day. I am happy Is my life perfect, absolutely not, but I’m happy. I started my spiritual journey over a year and…

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My MS fitness trainer

My MS fitness trainer

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I have this wonderful woman that comes to my home every week to work me out. She is an MS fitness trainer. She doesn’t have me doing weights or cardio, she has me working with kickballs and rings and my own body weight to work and move muscles that are weak and damaged. Muscle movements I would never go near because they are hard. Lots of core work. My very first attack back in 1998 left my left leg with…

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Yup, another day in my life…

Yup, another day in my life…

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I don’t like to complain in my blog. Ok, sometimes I do. I live with a chronic illness of multiple sclerosis everyday, eventually you break and post your disgust. I’d like to say that I don’t do it often. That being said, I have to complain this morning over just some stupid stuff that is really all resolved now. It would have been my blog post yesterday but I had that migraine and I just couldn’t focus to write. It…

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Done, done and done

Done, done and done

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Yesterday was the second part to my Ocrevus infusion. My next appointment is February 26, 2018.  The all the headaches that it took me to get on Ocrevus and then all the headaches it took getting the infusion site, I’m happy to say I am done with this infusion. As expected, the infusion was smooth I had no allergic reactions of any sort. Other than being extremely tired from the Benedryl that goes through the IV line, I felt fine….

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Life with MS and living alone, I’m a fall risk

Life with MS and living alone, I’m a fall risk

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OK, maybe this is a little too premature. I mean this is only day two of being home without my daughter. I had to run the first errand today that normally she would run for me.  Needed money at the bank. To take my walker out to go to the ATM that’s just way too many steps. So I wrote a check out to myself and cashed it at the drive-thru teller window, it worked. I have to be smart…

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My Multiple Sclerosis from my parents view

My Multiple Sclerosis from my parents view

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My dad and I were talking about me having multiple sclerosis. He was saying it wasn’t fair, I have a good heart. My first words were I still have a good heart, that hasn’t changed but I knew what he meant. I heard this before from him, from my mom, my stepdad, from most of my family. They look at multiple sclerosis “stealing” away part of my life. I’ve discussed this topic a few times in my blogs.    …

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If I didn’t have MS

If I didn’t have MS

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What do you say? Is it easy to imagine a different life? A life where you weren't sick. A life where walking wasn't difficult. A life where you can feel if your hair was dry or damp or your clothes are cotton or silk. Each year that goes by the image fades a little more. I've had MS for so long I can't imagine my life without it anymore. The girl who didn't need a walker passed away over 3…

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