Let me clarify my resting point here, since I wasn't understood completely!

Keri,

MS WILL make you rest one way or another, if you don't listen to your body. YOUR BODY will tell you when to rest. This isn't your regular virus anymore. This is MS. You will learn to lay low or you will keep beating your head in and finding yourself hit with MS over and over.

I learned to listen to my body the hard way! After MS slapped me down and down everytime I was determined I was in control of me!

I have NEVER never said to crawl up and lay there. No, you get PT, you see the doc, you call the doc when new things happen, you REST when your body says "na nanny boo boo, you over did it!", you exercise your brain, you do physical exercises to YOUR CURRENT capability, you deal with the mental aspects of this through friends, minister or therapy.

6 weeks into this is early for you to be adjusting fully to this new disease. Keri, talk to your doctor about these concerns and feelings you are having. They are normal. NMSS and MSF have peer counselors who will call you for free. We, of course, are here too...Find a MS support group in your area.

You are going through a grief of your "old" self. And in the end you will say hello to your "new" self. It is a spiritual, physical, and emotional journey.

And I wish you peace.