Happy Saturday. So I had to change my subscription at weight watchers to online only. It made no sense, at this point, for me to keep going just to weigh in. My scale at home always match their scale to the point and I never stay for the meeting anyway. Since my three month subscription was up and I don’t want to quit, I figured it was a good switch and wasn’t as expensive. Since I started weight watchers on…
In three weeks is my official diagnosis anniversary of multiple sclerosis. Today I am going to see the doctor that made the diagnosis 20 years ago. I’ve said it before in many posts, I have two neurologists for my MS. One is a specialist in New York City and one is my long time original neurologist that I’m seeing today. People might think that’s ridiculous, why do I need two? The reason I ended up with two is because none…
It’s been a strange couple of days. I’m finally able to start taking my high dose biotin again. If you read any of my other threads on biotin, and there are many, what mostly showed in the biotin is that my walking speed increased by seven seconds. This is according to my neurological test by my doctor. However I’ve stated, and I still stand by, that biotin helped do more. Besides noticing more weakness in my legs and hip area,…
I’ll start this with the doctor for my shoulder tendonitis. I went to see him yesterday. Still flying high from my amazing weekend at my spirit junkie master class, I think I even put the doctor in a good mood. Being that my case is slightly different from other tendonitis cases, I can’t ever rest the arm because I use it with the walker, he was able to give me a Cortizone shot early. He was actually singing as he injected…
I wrote a blog couple weeks ago titled am I depressed? https://multipleexperiences.org/2017/05/16/am-i-depressed/. I agree with everything I wrote, but when I saw my neurologist the other day, we decided to put Prozac back in my medicine mix. Where I don’t think I’m depressed, what isn’t fully in control, is my emotions. I cry over everything. I’ve written blogs about this too. I cry over happy things and sad things, it makes no difference. According to webmd: http://www.webmd.com/multiple-sclerosis/guide/ms-depression#1 The Link Between MS and…
Doctors, doctors and more doctors. I have a lot of appointments coming up. Yesterday I was saw my neurologist. He’s been the doctor I’ve been with the longest, the one who diagnosed me 19+ years ago. At this stage of the game with my MS he treats me systematically. The specialist in the city treats me for my major MS drug. This is a section from a my own blog about doctor day check ups. It’s doctor day. What does that…
Let me first address the fact that it took an hour and 45 minutes to get into the city for my check up. That means I’m doing nothing for all that time. I was her first appointment that morning. When we do my neurological checks and timed walking, I’m at the best I’m going to be. Therefore the check up is based on this point. However how realistic is it? This is the first time I was her first appointment,…
It’s a rainy, foggy, and dreary day in New York. I’m a passenger in my own car. I have an early morning appointment at my neurologist in the city. Besides the basic neurological tests, we will discuss the possible switch to Ocrelizumab (Ocrevus) and my MRI results. ive already written about my bulging disk result from the spine.https://multipleexperiences.org/2017/04/01/multiple-sclerosis-symptoms-in-my-head/ My neurologist wrote me yesterday “good news, the brain MRI is stable”. It is good news, I know that. However it’s been the…
Every morning I sit down with my cup of coffee, and I decide what I want to write about. Today being no different than any other day. Marshmallow, of course the snuggling up next to me, and Zoey’s running rampage through the house. All of a sudden Zoey comes out running out of my daughter’s room with a sneaker in her mouth. Wish I caught the actual action shot but had to settle for this instead. I’m up your Social…
Yesterday was a bad day. First my doctor visit went as expected, which was nowhere. What I mean, is that not much could be done at this point, my symptoms are treated symptomatically. He doesn’t really think that I’m experiencing an MS hug, I don’t even think he really understood what an MS hug was. He’s been my doctor for 19 years and for the first time ever, I was a little shocked. Especially since the first thing we were…
