[Erin524]

Would this qualify as a reason for going to the ER for some IV steroids, or should I just wait till morning?

I noticed I was really walking funny. Having to lift my right foot way up to walk. So I decided to let my foot drag and see if things were easier. I went and looked up foot drop symptoms and it seems really familiar.

I really want to take a shower, but now I'm scared to do that.

Oh, and I'm starting to feel the symptoms of a UTI now. Why is it always on a weekend!?!? I'm going to go call my aunt and ask her what she thinks.

[Erin524]

I HAD decided to go to the urgicare I use to get checked for a UTI tonight. I knew they'd moved, so I googled to look up and see where they went.

Cant find them. Their website no longer shows any locations for Omaha. I called the number that I have for them. That's still good, it gives the website address (where they're no longer listed) and then it goes to voicemail, which then tells me that the voicemail is full.

WTH?

I'm really annoyed.

This place used to be great. I'd go in, actually get to see the PA that I see at my regular doctor's office, and would get taken care of, and now suddenly they're gone? Ok, I'm really mad.

I guess I'll go and very carefully take a shower (yay that my dad bought me a shower stool the other day) and see if I can at least get my hair washed. Then I'll have to wait impatiently for my doctor's office to open in the morning. Probably end up having a nurse visit because it seems like I would have to give up my firstborn (which I dont have one) to get an appointment there any more. (used to be easy to go see a doctor, I wonder why it's so difficult now?)

[Dejibo]

im sorry no one was awake to answer your post. If you have to ask "should I go to the ER" the answer is always YES! dont play with your sanity, health and disease.

I hope you are feeling better after some rest.

[Erin524]

My aunt, a nurse practitioner, told me it could wait. So I waited. I'm about to go call them in a minute. I havent even stood up yet. (literally just woke up, laptop is right next to my bed) so I have to see how I am first.

I think everyone was watching the superbowl last night, that's why no one answered my posts. Oh well.

Edit

Got an appointment with regular doctor today to see if I have a UTI and see if he'll give me some physical therapy for whatever is going on. I also called the possibly new neurologist (could just be a 2nd opinion) and made sure they have my chart and they're supposed to call me back in a day or two with an appointment. Guess it's time to hurry up and wait.

My right leg is still dragging, which really sucks. Left leg is burning. Not sure which is more annoying.

I'm still backing off on the baclofen, and that seems to be helping a teeny bit. At least on the falling asleep anytime I sit down for more than a couple of minutes. Strangely enough, the spasticity around my ribcage doesnt feel as annoying (it'll probably pick up now that I said that and I'm thinking about it) I have to get dressed now so that I can go pee in a cup at the doctor's office.

[viseeu]

Hope you get some answers, Erin~

[Erin524]

Well, I got a UTI. That explains this a little bit. but, I KNEW IT! Maybe after a little macrobid things will calm down a little bit.

and, I got some physical therapy! (yay!) That will count as some of the exercise that the doctor kvetched at me that I should do. (been trying, havent been feeling good tho)

That was just my regular doctor, who is really cool about stuff, his dad has MS, so he understands MS better than the other doctors in that office. It was kind of nice to sit and talk with him. I wish he would have addressed the limping/dragging crap that's going on now. He just told me to take it slow till I get to a neuro (either my current one or the new one)

[SallyC]

I hope the M helps you to feel better soon..

[Erin524]

I forgot. Macrobid makes me feel really really really sick when I take it.

Do you ever get the feeling the MS is sentient and it's trying to torture you? (ok, being a little sarcastic here)

I wasnt feeling the UTI really until AFTER I took the first macrobid. Now I definitely know I have one. (ohmakeitstop!) I'm really wobbly tonight...using a cane in the house, and I'm about to hijack my mom's extra rollator that's out in the garage to use in my basement. I really hope that whatever nastiness is floating around in my urinary tract gets nuked by the macrobid and that I go back to feeling normal then.

When I first woke up today, I almost felt better than yesterday. Then after I walked around a little bit, things went downhill from there. I just hope the UTI goes on it's merry way soon and doesnt make the MS too mad at me.

[SallyC]

Macrobid gave me a roaring yeast infection in the mouth..

[Erin524]

That would be why I have the big package of AZO Yeast probiotic...and I have a stash of diflucan. (whoops, forgot to request some more of that from the doctor this afternoon...darnit!)

I just did some laundry. Yay me!

Actually, I put a very light collapsible basket of towels on our stair chair thingie and sent it upstairs. My dad dragged it into the laundry room. my first mistake was not calling the stair chair thingie back down to ride up. I crawled up the stairs instead. Got upstairs and had to sit for 5 minutes, and then went and threw 8 towels into the washing machine. (my back was giving out. machine probably would have taken everything in the basket) I got the machine started and then my body said "go sit down. NOW!". Asked my mom if she could do the rest of the towels for me. (she wasnt thrilled.)

My mom is annoying the heck out of me. She doesnt understand the implications of MS and that it's going to sometimes screw around with me. She's mad that I "wont" take her to breakfast on days that my dad isnt home. (uh...hi mom, have you not noticed that I'm practically crawling?!?)

It's like I'm in competition with her for who's having the most physical problems. My dad and I were talking about my visit to the doctor to get the macrobid today, and what they said, and my mom started moaning loudly (screaming at my dad) about how her feet hurt (she has a bunion) and she then started saying she wasted a clean pair of jeans today, getting dressed and not getting to go anywhere. (What?) That she has to wash her freshly-washed-over-the-weekend jeans again because they're dirty now. (again, What?!)

If she didnt go anywhere, and just sat at her computer today, playing solitaire, how did her jeans get dirty? (wait...I dont know if I want an answer to that)

Every time that I have a flare that keeps me from leaving the house, she has a hissy fit because she's either not getting to go out somewhere, or she turns into a drama queen complaining about a callous or a hangnail. (she'll get out an ace bandage to wrap around a finger with a hangnail, or threaten to cut off an appendage because something is annoying her. She's never done it tho)

I dont think she gets that my dad and I have serious medical conditions. (dad has a heart problem. He totally understands the Spoon Theory) I guess she has a serious mental problem.

Some of my mom's complaints about pain are real. She has spinal stenosis, so she's got the bad back, she's had two knee replacements, and she survived a 5 week coma back in 1957 after getting hit by a drunk driver, so I do believe she has legitimate complaints about pain. It's just weird that she starts having hissy fits about dry skin on her elbows and starts saying she wants to cut her arms off because of the dry skin whenever I or my dad have a medical problem.

Anyone here in competition with another family member trying to out-symptom you whenever you have a problem? (I have another relative like that, worse than my mom, that doesnt know I have MS, if she did know, she'd tell me I'm faking it. Just waiting for the chance to go off on her arrogant butt. There's years of irritation built up with that relative)