Additionally you may see:
SO = Significant Other
SP = Spouse
SOH = Significant Other Husband
SOW = Significant Other Wife
SOL = $hit Out of Luck
SOB = Well, you get the idea.....

thanks everybody! this is very helpful, i will also visit those links to the thread in chronic pain! :)

DMD is disease modifying drugs
PT is physical therapy
OT is occupational therapy
ON is optic neuritis


Print off the list from the chronic pain place and add to it with a pencil. it will help to refer to it when reading, and then before you know it, you too will be speaking the lingo of MS.

My recent health care is a PPO, but my old one was a POS. THEY said that meant Point of Service, but I always thought it meant something else!!! :cool:

Maybe it just had a double meaning?

IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) although a POS, liked it better(the company) than current PPO.

DH =dear husband
DW=dear wife
DD = dear daughter
so on and so on. Just add who you want to call dear

btw = by the way
lol = laugh out loud
j/k = just kidding
b/d =birthday
g/f =girlfriend
b/f= boyfriend
bff = best friend forever

Why do we abbreviate? well, its an MS thing. writing is hard work, and our little fingers cramp up and our brains freeze. The faster we get to to point the less likely we are to forget what we are trying to say.

I think everyone abbreviates now. It's not just because we have MS and we're trying to save time by abbreviating everything. Even the Normals abbreviate stuff...(I hate reading posts or texts from a teenager written in "textese". Makes my eyes bleed to see "you" abbreviated as "u", and "your" abbreviated as "ur")

I havent yet been able to let go and abbreviate everything like the teenagers seem to have done. I think a few of my English teachers would hunt me down and shoot me repeatedly if I did that...which is weird, back when I was a student of theirs, I would have been all for textese...I wasnt the greatest student. At the very least, they'd probably assign me a bunch of English homework and expect me to have everything handwritten in ink and in cursive. (I dont really handwrite much anymore)

I have kind of dropped using apostrophes, except in my own last name. (I've got one of those Irish "O' " last names) because it is faster to type when I dont have to make my numb pinky finger look for the apostrophe key.