Hi Koala and Pud's friend. I've just done a bit of cruising around the MS area and it seems fatigue and cognitive problems are the most complained-of symptoms for you guys as it is for us chronic pain folks (after pain).

The cognitive deficits in both communities include,

• forgetting why I just walked into the kitchen, what it was I was in the middle of saying, what I wrote at the beginning of this post, etc.
• difficulty concentrating
• difficulty overriding habitual, impulsive behaviour.

But there are many more complaints here about groping for a word than you will find in the chronic pain posts and there are some complaints about lack of self-discipline and poorer ability to calm one's emotions among the chronic pain people but none here. You guys may be a lot less neurotic than us! (But we are fluent with our ranting and whinging)

Do MS patients routinely get regular neuropsychological testing?

Anthony
In the Dome Café