[GladysD]

I hate the unpredictability of the whole illness. I hate worrying, that as I go into my 40's that I am going to reach menopause and I have to not just deal with that aspect as just a woman, but the wondering!! What is menopause and MS going to do to me!?

I hate worrying, that if I get a lousy cold, is my body going to want to just lay around in bed all damn day! I hate that colds settle in my eyeballs, and I have a little blurred spot to deal with!

I hate, having a hot day, and the moment the AC goes on in my home, I am ready to just take a nap! Sorry kids, mommy isn't feeling good right now.

[Lynn]

Ya know what is completely doing my head in? Figuratively speaking of course. Because I am on Ty, I have to have an MRI every 6 months. That's fine. I had a brain aneurysm clipped in 2004, and have had numerous MRI's on the local 1.5 tesla machine since. That's fine.

Problem is, now the local radiology place has upgraded their MRI machine to a 3 Tesla - and my Neurosurgeon's office doesn't keep records that far back, to check whether my clip can take that much magnetism. That's not fine.

Radiologist says 'can't take the risk - out come if we get it wrong is death'. Once again, not fine - although I applaud his honesty and duty-of-care (he was the one who found the aneurysm as an incidental finding nine years ago - lovely guy).

They can do it on the old machine for the time being, but what happens when that is superseded?

Face it. I am only 44, and technology is moving FAST - what happens when the machines get too big - and how long will that be - five minutes at this rate???

In the meantime, I am scouring the 'dar-chives' of my filing cabinet, trying to find something that will tell me what I have in my head. I am sure I remember my doc telling me that I was safe up to 4-5 Tesla - I just have to prove it.