good to hear you are being treated and (hopefully) on your way to "the answer". Here is to the 'roids breaking those spasms/flare quicker than just gutting it out. My only tip is get a box or 2 or lemon candy to cut the odd taste you may get inyour mouth and lock up all the food

Looking at all this from a silver lining viewpoint: if this finally makes them say "You officially have MS" just think... filling out all those pesky doctor office forms will be a lot shorter and simpler! Just 2 little letters vs. a host of symptoms (trying to inject a bit of humor to make you smile)

Steroids for flares are typically given IV. its IV solumedrol and its about 100 times stronger than those little pills they give you. Its meant to BLAST your immune system to tell it to CALM DOWN!

I wish the best for you.

Cindy, I am so glad the ER doctor saw what you are experiencing and that you are now being treated. Let us know how it goes at the MS clinic. Hang in there!

You may not notice a change for a few days yet on the steroids. But I think you made the right move!!!!

Thanks i do too..just resting now great friends and family helps too

Hope you're feeling better real soon, hon...it always helped me.

Funny...you get steroids, I get antibiotics for my spasms...my neuro believes my symptoms are a result of infections. Blech...I'd rather have the 'roids to feel better...

take care, eat a low sodium diet (no more than 2000mg/day) to keep the weight gain low, and rest...oh and drink lots of water.

Definitely don't forget the water on the 'roids. Helps loads. Hope you feel better soon!

Make sure you get lots of potassium, too. The roids really deplete you of potassium. Google about foods high in potassium. I was surprised that bananas aren't the best. I don't like bananas so that is why I was looking for other things. I would typically eat dried apricots, lots of canteloupe and drink the V8 with Calcium (it has a lot of potassium and calcium).

Oh and you might feel worse before better. The crash after IVSM is kind of bad for some people. I typically would crash for a couple of days and then get progressively better for a couple of weeks.

I'm so glad you went, got a good doctor, got it documented, and got treatment that might help to end this flare. Good for you!

Fresh spinach is high in potassium, and this site has a list of potassium rich foods.

http://potassiumrichfoods.com/potass...ch-foods-list/

I have HypoKalemic Periodic Paralysis so the depletion of potassium makes it so that I can't use the steroids. I had a different page that listed more potassium rich foods but when a virus wiped out my computer I lost the link. This one has a pretty good list.

If you use fresh spinach in a smoothie with pineapple and strawberry with a little honey to sweeten it's great!

I hope you start feeling better soon!

Okay I just read some of the comments on that page and if you read them there is a link to a usda page that has 26 pages of potassium rich food!