well, it doesnt feel like someone is crushing it anymore. It's a little easier to type now too, but I'm still pretty numb from just below the the shoulder to about my knee..(all just on the left side. Right side doesnt seem to be affected at all)

I wasnt super bummed out with the numbness (other than my hand and arm) until I went out with my boyfriend the other night. We'll just say that the numbness is depressing at times. Feels like I'm wearing a scuba suit sometimes. Or a giant full body mitten.

Tonight, I'm feeling a lot of spasticity all over my body...mostly in the left arm and hand and down in my right leg...and some in the left leg, and my low back is killing me. I'm waiting till just before I go to bed (which will be in a little bit hopefully) before I take any baclofen for it.

I did a two week oral steroid taper (well, it was a few days over two weeks) and the crushing sensation went away after a few days...now I just get a weird tight feeling in the knuckles of my pinkie, ring and middle fingers. (the knuckles where the fingers meet the hand)

It's annoying, but I think it's a little better than it had been. Doesnt hurt like it did, sometimes it feels like the numbness is letting up (that goes away fast) but I'm getting tired of feeling like I'm wearing a mitten, and the typing errors that I've been making are making me grumpy.

Oh, and not being able to crochet or knit as much as I want to is ticking me off. At least I figured out how to knit and purl using my right hand to throw the yarn around the needle, rather than just using my left hand to wrap the yarn around the needle. So at least it's helped my knitting skills a little bit. I could not do that before things went all fubar. That's the one good thing about it. Similar thing happened when I had my first episode of optic neuritis. I learned to knit the day before, and the knitting was a good enough distraction that it kept my head from exploding in frustration while waiting for my eye to get back to almost normal.