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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Illinois
Posts: 266
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Illinois
Posts: 266
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What MS feels like for me...
The fatigue causes me to fee like I'm trying to walk in 4 ft of the thickest mud.
My brain feels like someone put a set of jumper cables in my brain and are on the other end revving the engine up. It's very electrical and painful. Or sometimes it feels like somehow this lightning bolt got in my head and it's frantically trying to find it's way out and can't.
The spasticity in my back muscles feels like there are two sets of strings, one on each side of my spinal cord, that are being pulled as tight as they can causing all of my muscles to clench up.
The neuropathy in my arms/calves feels like someone is stabbing me with a pair of rusty stainless steel scissors and tearing them back and forth up and down.
The vertigo (while sleeping) feels like I am on a rollercoaster ride from hell and my brain can't stop flipping around in my skull until I wake up, sit up, and catch my bearings.
The cognitive issues make me feel like I need to be locked up in a psych ward or that I am on some serious trippy drugs. Like I'm stuck in a bad trip and there's no getting out.
I hate driving to a destination and completely forget on the drive where I am driving to, causes a very panic[y] like feeling which is so not cool.
Sometimes my eyes do the tunnel vision thing. or sometimes everything has fog over it, or sometimes I randomly lose all eyesight for 1-2 minutes, that's creepy.
Sometimes MS manipulates my brain and makes me really mean and angry and hateful. Sometimes it makes me want to break down and cry.
All in all. What MS feels like to me is a big fat ugly painful electrical hemorrhoid. yeah. I said it.
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