Leg cramps during the night....muscle wastage after big steroid therapy....jelly legs in the heat....twitching at the worst times.....spilling more coffee the harder you try to control it......general muscle weakness - sometimes just because they feel weak, and sometimes because you don't/can't/haven't got the energy or time to use them enough.....

I'm lovin' it!

Lynn - Sometimes my muscles get so tired that simple tasks become huge. I know mentioned this in the fatigue thread but sometimes I my arms get so weak and tired just from brushing my hair. Showers are such a huge challenge too. I can feel my muscles getting tired in there and then tensing up to keep me standing up and balanced, which then makes them more tired and they tense up more and, sometimes, by the time I get out of the shower, one of my muscles ends up in a full spasm. I now have a shower chair and that helps some but since I don't have a hand held shower I still have to stand up to rinse off and such.

Well, tonight, to coincide with the start of winter in Australia, I am getting a cold - nothing special, just a cold. Somehow though, with everything aching, eyes itching and nose and running I so don't remember feeling this lousy for some time.

Tkrik - I totally get what you are saying - everything is huge - work tomorrow seems impossible, even with a short day. I could take a sick day, but then I am admitting that I can't do stuff - to people that can. I have new boss, although I have yet to meet her, this is not the way I want to start - so I will just have to suck it up.

All I ask is that these muscles carry me through my day (preferably without protesting too much )

At least I know I will recover and feel better after this particular one.

Lyn, ugh, poor baby. Take a couple of Bayer, to keep any fever
at bay and it may help to keep your body going, for most of the
day. If I get, even the slightest fever, it saps my energy.

Lynn - I hope you start feeling better. I know when I have a cold or virus my MS symptoms act up more, including muscle weakness and fevers always set off all sorts of things. Sally gave some good advice. Let us know how you are doing.

Judy,
I wonder how many of us MSers were first dxd with fibro? I was dxd with fibro in the mid 80s...how much time went by attributing MS sxs to the fibro worries me...I wonder how long I actually had MS...

The pain is different for me. I can tell when I am having a fibro attack vs pain from MS. Either type stinks