My poor Marshy was sick all night. When my dog is up sick, I’m up. It was a long night but he finally got whatever was in his belly out. Unfortunately it came out all over my blanket that now needs to be cleaned. After that final incident, he was finally able to sleep. It’s a crazy coincidence, but I too woke up sick this morning. Today I normally go to physical therapy. I woke up I got dressed and…
The sun is out. My view is beautiful. My furniture for the balcony has been ordered and soon my blogs will be written from there. My little four-legged angels let me sleep a little in later today. I just woke up feeling great. It is just so nice to feel better. I have to admit it was a rough couple of weeks but that Ocrevus infusion. It really wasn’t even the Ocrevus that did it, it was the steroids. It’s…
Who writes a blog about toilets? Well, I guess I do. When I moved into my condo I had the smallest toilets. I had to give people a warning so they would be aware, it was a big drop down before your butt hits. For someone with MS, this created a very big problem. There were times I slid right off the toilet. Then there were other times I couldn’t quite get off the toilet. It was so low down…
Two amazing things happened over the last two days that I have to tell you about. Yesterday I actually swam in the pool. I do the shorter side of the pool as opposed to the length for safety reasons. My poor aid doesn’t want to have to deal with jumping in and trying to save me where I can’t touch the bottom. There I was, back and forth and back-and-forth for almost a full half an hour in the pool….
I’m Back to pushing my body. Not that this is something new with me. This is what I’ve always done. I have a MS, I know that, but I push it to the limit. Sunday and today I did a 55 minute Zumba class. I haven’t done the longest class in I would say almost a year and a half. I used to only work out for 45 minutes or more. Things started to change actually when I got my…
I was informed by my friend that my pharmacy now makes a combination pill. It’s the same three pills a day, but it now has in addition to the hundred milligrams of biotin, 400 mg of the Alpha lipoic acid. You can click on the pill bottle on my webpage or you or you can click on the link I provided below. https://highdosebiotin.net/ Alpha lipoic acid has been studied to help in secondary progressive MS. https://www.mssociety.org.uk/ms-research/treatments-in-the-pipeline/lipoic-acid Studies in animal models…
I found this article that in December of 2017, the application for high dose biotin has been withdrawn from the European market. https://www.mstrust.org.uk/news/news-about-ms/high-dose-biotin-withdrawn-european-licensing The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has been examining data on high dose biotin (MD1003, Qizenday) since the application was accepted in September 2016. At a meeting last week, the EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) concluded that the clinical data from two trials that enrolled 253 patients was not sufficient (link is external) to…
I’m happy to say I’m all done with Ocrevus for six months. I just have to deal, of course, with the side effects from the steroids. I have to be honest too, these medicines and these infusions mess with my mood. I feel like I haven’t been my happy self in so long. I’m back to living in my four walls of a MS because I haven’t left my apartment. I’ve gone out for physical therapy and a couple errands…
I should be done. I should be done with the side effects from the steroids. I should be done with sitting there for 5+ hours. I should be done with the Benadryl. Yet I am not thanks to the infusion place ordering the wrong dosage amount last week. I once again have to go in today. I decided not to wait two weeks like when you first start Ocrevus because I just want to get it done. I once again…
Daylight savings was Saturday night. Clocks went ahead one hour. I normally hate daylight savings. Especially the one in the spring when you lose that our sleep. It just throws me off for days. My daughter came home at about 11 o’clock upset on Saturday evening. She was working so i couldn’t understand her mood. I thought it was because of Saturday afternoon. She was out doing a couple of errands because we only have one car now (mine is…
