I dread getting into the shower. It's worse when I'm down. The whole process is exhausting, and it's monotonous. There is an element of fear because I have fallen in the bathtub a couple of times (only once was serious), and I'm afraid if I take a bath I won't be able to get out. I always take my cell phone into the BR with me.
Despite all that, I do take a shower almost every day because I feel dirty if I don't and it helps wake me up.

I try to conserve energy though. After my shower, I sit on the couch for a while to rest until my hair is almost dry, then I blow dry the rest of it. I keep cutting my hair shorter so it's easier to deal with. I won't go out if I don't dry may hair, but don't always dry it if I'm not going out.

Oh, my legs are a veritable forest!!! It is just way too much for me to shave them regularly. Spring is here and I'm trying to remember how I got away with this last year....

I take less pills now, but I still resent taking them and filling my pill case. I do what I have to, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. Looking on the bright side, I don't have to give myself injections anymore, not that I could.

Kay

They all know me there. As it was I had a good appt. The only problem
is the traction machine that we are using is something that all the
therapist use. So it was hard to put back the way we needed it.

So I am better right now.

Donna

hmmm... comin' around to a full scrubdown in prospect for this weekend...

one time i would have liked that

and sometimes i do (but at my own place i preferred not to have the vent on HMPHHH it makes the air coldddd )

but i feel frankly lazy. and i don't want to uncover myself is another thing. it's nippy and humid here - a wet weekend starting last night. i've spent the day in bed, poor little me here, eeeh?

i wonder, sometimes, am i just lazy. not all the time, but sometimes.

~ waves ~ who isn't really all up for all that uncoverin and showerin and hair washing and conditioning etc etc etc and stuff. i am lucky i have good skin. i really should be moisturizing but i don't... it could look better than it does, because i don't ... it seems like so much effort to get through the whole "treatment" good and proper.... i could not imagine doing it daily... yet once i did... i lived in a very hot climate though.

Have to admit I had a rough week last week. But I bought some therapads.
And the one I used last night on my neck helped a lot. I have two left
and will try using one a day. See what this does. And will probably
try using my heating pads on my legs. I don't know exactly why they
got so bad, but they are. So I have to try and find a way to get to
a massage each week.

Donna

have you already checked your vit d level? my sister had leg pains and they checked hers and it was very low so she is taking mega doses for 3 months then recheck. she takes 50,000 IU a week.
bizi

I hope your sister is using D3 OTC and not that RX D2 which doesn't work!

New studies show D2 is 87% less effective than D3.

I hate showering and dealing with that but I force myself to because I know I have to do it. I really hate to do it, I mean it's just scary for me because I know I could slip or something. Since I have started really being good about doing my nails they've grown a lot and it gives me a great deal of pride in them to at least have ONE thing I do religiously and do well. I feel good when I look down at my hands and that's enough reason for me to keep up on taking the biotin supplement I take for the nails and hair growth, and I really think it makes other people look at me in a nicer light, giving them something besides my wheelchair to focus on.

well mrs. d, she takes the prescription kind and will be retested in 3 months. She is a nurse too and works for a doctors office....give me a journal article that I can tell her about if you have one.
thank you
bizi

Bizi,

I totally agree with Mrs. D.

B12 and vit. D deficiencies are often seen in MS patients. My levels were in the basement.

I was taking 50,000 iu of prescription vit. D for a while, until I found out that all script vit. D is really D2.
Once I started taking real D3, my levels went too high and I reduced my dose. I need much less D3 to keep my levels up.

My B12 saga would be merely OT.