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Old 03-28-2014, 03:02 PM
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Another question. If I have no new lesions, why are my legs getting weaker and it's harder to walk. I try to do some exercises but its getting harder and harder. I want to keep my heart rate up, I had a mild heart attack in December and doing what I can to prevent another. I am so tired of fighting, but I have no choice.
Lesions don't seem to have much of a connection with your symptoms. The experts don't know why this is but you can have lots of lesions in "bad" places and still have few or no symptoms, and you can have almost no lesions, or no new lesions, and have worsening symptoms.

It's possible that the leg weakness has a connection with the heart problem. I hope you're asking a doctor about the best way to exercise, just to be on the safe side. A course of physical therapy might be suggested, or have you tried that?
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