[Erin524]

Is it something in the air?

I've got weird stuff going on tonight.

My right knee (the one I injured a few weeks ago) was really stiff this morning, and kept wanting to go out on me...

A few minutes ago, I got up to go use the potty, and the left leg hurt so bad for about 10 seconds that I couldnt put weight on it and I actually fell over onto the bed. (thankfully I missed the knitting needles, that would not have been pretty) Limped into the bathroom, came back and my leg was fine, didnt have the weird shooting pain going up it that I had a few minutes before.

and tonight, some invisible person keeps stabbing me in the shoulders with a weird shooting pain....had that same shooting pain go across my right hip and stomach last night while walking across a room. I'm guessing these are some spasticity sensations that are a bit more intense than ones I've had before.

and, I cant sleep. The Evil Insomnia Troll must have been here earlier and spiked my non-caffeine Diet Coke with some caffeine or something. My brain is refusing to shut down, even tho the rest of my body is begging it to.

Oh, and the Insomnia Troll's cousin, the Vertigo Troll was here last night. He's apparently got some special remote control hooked up to my 8th cranial nerve and is randomly flipping the dizzy switch to "on", and setting the dizzy settings to just below "medium". At least he's not just sitting there turning it on and off repeatedly. He's only hit me twice with that. I dont think it's been 24hrs yet tho...and the vertigo may be related to the lack of sleep.

I cant wait to see the regular doctor tomorrow. I'm asking for some Ambien or something similar...and asking him to check with the neuro to see if there might be a possibility of some steroids in my future (dont really want to do that tho, so if they can find me an anti-vertigo med that works better than meclizine, that might help)

I'm glad I'm just getting the inconveiniet (argh, I cant spell that word!) relatively minor annoyances and not anything big and scary (yet) But this is really annoying.

I guess there's a lot of suckage in the forum this week for a lot of people symptom-wise.

It's got to be something in the air, or the water, or maybe it's sunspots... There's some mighty powerful MS suckage going around this week.

[SandyC]

Snoopy, I forgot to mention this earlier to you. Jim has this horrible pain in his upper left shoulder. He says it's like a tazor pain which in turn starts his legs to shake violently. This only happens when he is sleeping, never awake. It wakes him up out of a deep sleep. MJ doesn't touch it. He is scheduled to go to the pain clinic when we get home from my mom's surgery. So, yeah, mj doesn't always work for everything that's for sure.

But, last night I could have sworn we were in one of those old beds where you put a quarter in and it vibrates! LOL I had to look up and make sure there weren't any mirrors on the ceiling!

[Snoopy]

Originally Posted by SandyC

Snoopy, I forgot to mention this earlier to you. Jim has this horrible pain in his upper left shoulder. He says it's like a tazor pain which in turn starts his legs to shake violently. This only happens when he is sleeping, never awake. It wakes him up out of a deep sleep. MJ doesn't touch it. He is scheduled to go to the pain clinic when we get home from my mom's surgery. So, yeah, mj doesn't always work for everything that's for sure.

But, last night I could have sworn we were in one of those old beds where you put a quarter in! LOL

Ouch! I hope the doctor can help. Jim really needs a break from this disease

[SandyC]

Originally Posted by Snoopy

Ouch! I hope the doctor can help. Jim really needs a break from this disease

I agree. He also has ecoli (UTI) so this may be aggravating the symptoms as well. I started him on augmentin today to see if he can get some relief while we are gone. I wish I could take his pain away if only for a day to give him relief.

[Snoopy]

Sorry your having such a difficult time right now, Erin. I hope you start to do better soon

Originally Posted by Erin524

Is it something in the air?

I've got weird stuff going on tonight.

My right knee (the one I injured a few weeks ago) was really stiff this morning, and kept wanting to go out on me...

A few minutes ago, I got up to go use the potty, and the left leg hurt so bad for about 10 seconds that I couldnt put weight on it and I actually fell over onto the bed. (thankfully I missed the knitting needles, that would not have been pretty) Limped into the bathroom, came back and my leg was fine, didnt have the weird shooting pain going up it that I had a few minutes before.

and tonight, some invisible person keeps stabbing me in the shoulders with a weird shooting pain....had that same shooting pain go across my right hip and stomach last night while walking across a room. I'm guessing these are some spasticity sensations that are a bit more intense than ones I've had before.

and, I cant sleep. The Evil Insomnia Troll must have been here earlier and spiked my non-caffeine Diet Coke with some caffeine or something. My brain is refusing to shut down, even tho the rest of my body is begging it to.

Oh, and the Insomnia Troll's cousin, the Vertigo Troll was here last night. He's apparently got some special remote control hooked up to my 8th cranial nerve and is randomly flipping the dizzy switch to "on", and setting the dizzy settings to just below "medium". At least he's not just sitting there turning it on and off repeatedly. He's only hit me twice with that. I dont think it's been 24hrs yet tho...and the vertigo may be related to the lack of sleep.

I cant wait to see the regular doctor tomorrow. I'm asking for some Ambien or something similar...and asking him to check with the neuro to see if there might be a possibility of some steroids in my future (dont really want to do that tho, so if they can find me an anti-vertigo med that works better than meclizine, that might help)

I'm glad I'm just getting the inconveiniet (argh, I cant spell that word!) relatively minor annoyances and not anything big and scary (yet) But this is really annoying.

I guess there's a lot of suckage in the forum this week for a lot of people symptom-wise.

It's got to be something in the air, or the water, or maybe it's sunspots... There's some mighty powerful MS suckage going around this week.