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I hope Jim doesn't have another UTI.
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Unfortunately...yes
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I have noticed the last few days that my forearms have a heavy weak feeling to them...when I'm walking outside or when shopping, I put them in my pockets to hold them steady...they feel so weird.
It's happening in my quads too. A heavy but weak feeling...and I'm sleeping many hours throughout the day and night...
So is this MS related? It is very new to me...and scary.
This sounds like a Flare to me....why don't you think that it is? You said last few days, so new symptoms, lasting more than 48hours are considered a Flare. Isn't that right??
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Daisy, I'll be darned if I know...I just do not understand when a flare occurs or when it's just an exaserbation. I have had it explained many times, and it just won't sink iin.
In fact, I understood MS better two years ago than I do now

BTW the weakness in the arms is a bit less intense, but still there.
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I understand Debbie. I have symptoms that come and go, but have never had as bad a flare as my first one. I felt horrible for months, was entirely numb from my rib cage to my foot on the left side, and could barely walk. So I guess I compare all of my symptoms to that. For the past few days, I have experienced a new weird (sensory) feeling on my chin - kind of painful and tingling. But I don't think of it as a flare.

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Daisy, I'll be darned if I know...I just do not understand when a flare occurs or when it's just an exaserbation. I have had it explained many times, and it just won't sink iin.
In fact, I understood MS better two years ago than I do now

BTW the weakness in the arms is a bit less intense, but still there.
Wait! Isn't flare, exacerbation, and relapse the same thing, just different words? Now I am confused. I know pseudo exacerbations can happen especially after being sick. But I did not know there was a difference between a flare, exacerbation, and a relapse.

Glad to hear the weakness is easing up a bit.
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Wait! Isn't flare, exacerbation, and relapse the same thing, just different words? Now I am confused. I know pseudo exacerbations can happen especially after being sick. But I did not know there was a difference between a flare, exacerbation, and a relapse.

Glad to hear the weakness is easing up a bit.
Yes....you are right! A Flare, Exacerbation and Relapse are ALL THE SAME. It is a new symptom, or a old that that has reappeared that last for aleast 24 hrs and is separated from the last Flare by atleast 30 days.

A pseudo Exacerbation is a temporary increase in symptoms, caused by being out in the heat, or taking too hot of a shower, etc ......once you cool down the symptoms go away.

That is why Debbie's episode sounds like a Exacerbation to me....
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Yes....you are right! A Flare, Exacerbation and Relapse are ALL THE SAME. It is a new symptom, or a old that that has reappeared that last for aleast 24 hrs and is separated from the last Flare by atleast 30 days.

A pseudo Exacerbation is a temporary increase in symptoms, caused by being out in the heat, or taking too hot of a shower, etc ......once you cool down the symptoms go away.

That is why Debbie's episode sounds like a Exacerbation to me....
Thanks. That was my understanding. And then I thought, omgoodness all these years I've had it wrong.
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