Hi all! my name is clark and i was diagnosed from a brain mri in august. i cannot walk without a walker except for very short distances and it looks like im blitzed drunk, cannot drive either as my right leg is very difficult to lift even a little bit unless im fully rested. i am trying to get an appt with barrow neruological's ms clinic in phoenix, to start getting treated asap. right now i'm only getting some pain meds and gabapentin and they dont do much except knock me out...

i'm very worried that i will never walk normally again, i see people talk of remission and i'm wondering if you may have had a similar problem to mine (its like my thigh is asleep), and fullt recovered for periods of tiem. its very frustrating to not be able to drive, or even to take a bus, and cabs are very expensive.

is there anything i can be doing to help my condition until i can get on avionex or whatever they decide? i am eating a good diet with veggies and protein every day, (i'm also diabetic).

does anyone else have any problems getting pain meds? my clinic dr wouldnt give me anything, she said i had to see my phys therapy dr. i am on oxycodone 5-325, and sometimes i have to take a second pill if after an hour the first one has no effect (i'm near 400 lbs so it may take higher dosage to work for me, not sure how these pills work). so anyway my phys therapy dr only gives me 60 pills with instructions to take up to 6/day and expects them to last me 3-4 weeks, and i feel like a junkie if i ask for more :/

anyway ty in advance, it looks like there is some good info at this forum adn i will be doing lots of reading