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Hello,
I came here from another site, and I believe some of you know me. I'm looking forward to learning more and meeting some new people. I was diagnosed with MS in September, 2006, and I was on Avonex, but I've been off since the new year because of my crazy insurance deducible.

I'll write more later when I have time, but I wanted to say hello!

April

:welcome_sign: April! I know you will find lots of good information and support here. So glad to see you! :hug:

welcome April..this is a nice place to find friends...info..support...see you soon
try the chat room too.... if you like real time exchanges..

Hello, April and welcome to NeuroTalk!

I think I know you from somewhere else ;)

Welcome, April. Happy to have you here at NeuroTalk, where Doc John and his cohorts, make it a pleasurable place to be.

:hug:

:Wave-Hello: and Welcome to NT!

Welcome, April!

Stop by any ole time! :Wave-Hello:

Welcome to a great place, April!! Hope you enjoy it here as much as we do...:Trapeze 2::trampoline:

OMG it's April!!!!! :holysheep::yahoo:

Welcome to freedom!! :sunchair::Excited:

<<~~ Nenu *winkies* :)

Hi and Welcome to Neuro Talk, April!! :) Hope to get to know you better as time goes on!!

Welcome to NT!

Well, hello April and welcome to NeuroTalk. Glad you found us and hope you take a look around and settle right in.

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Welcome April! :) It's a great place here, pull up a chair!

Wow, thank you everybody for the very warm welcome! It's good to see my old friends here too. This cheered me up after a lousy day at work!

hi april.
glad you found us here.

welcome. looking forward to more of your posts.

Yay! Glad this cheered you up, April -- you deserve some cheering! :Dancing-Chilli::Dancing-Chilli:

Hi April!

Tom

Extremely long lost soul...

April, you realize that we can talk off topic over here?

I expect to hear about the gardening and other interests! IN TECHNICOLOR! :D

Don't forget to check out the Stumble Inn (linked to this forum for us MS'ers, because we're a huge honking group of good!).

I know, Laura, and it's awesome! You'll hear plenty about my gardening, I assure you! And this past weekend I read the entire series of Anne of Green Gables and I thought of you! I'll never forget that one thread that got shut down because it was off topic! As if MS patients have no other interests but MS!

From the little we could talk about before, I gathered that we have a lot in common. You and I had interesting talks about tattoos too. Yay! I'm so glad Bearygood told me about this site!

Gotta go. I have to be up at 5:00 to give a Quality Assurance presentation. Wish me luck!

Good luck dearest! :hug:

I was going to mention the tattoos, but I figured I'd leave that one up to you to bring up here ;)

Now that we're here, maybe you can share some pictures of them! I've always been intrigued about your tats! :)

April = wickedcoolgirl btw everyone :)

Thanks for that endorsement, Laura! I'll get my husband to download a picture of my backpiece--I don't know how!:)

Endorsement. ROFL!! :)

:welcome_sign: April!

Did you happen to remember to turn out the lights before you left?

Glad to have you aboard! Been wondering how you're doing.

You're off Avonex? How are you doing with that?

Cherie

Hi Cherie!

I'm really glad you're here. I learned a lot from your posts at that other place.

After I stopped Avonex, I had a wonderful burst of energy for awhile. I threw a party, cooked every day, baked lots of cakes and bread, I was Superwoman. That didn't last long. A few weeks ago I lost my ability to pee and had to get catheterized. Both feet went numb, my tremors got worse, and I was exhausted--just getting my mail tired me out. My bladder is now working as it should, and I can feel my feet. But my tremors are getting extremely bad now, and I have insomnia, L'Hermittes, and I can't cool off, even though it's 15 degrees outside. I feel pretty lousy. My doc ordered two weeks of bedrest, and I took 5 days. I'm also feeling a little guilty for not doing anything to help my disease, but I know I shouldn't feel like that. I eat very well, but I smoke. I'm also losing weight. Since I was 14 I've maintained at 98 pounds, and today I'm down to 92, which is not good at all. Bearygood told me to look into MS and Malabsorption, and it seems to fit me like a glove. I called my doctor and told him about it so we can investigate when I see him in a few weeks. He's very open minded, so that's something.

I'll be getting back on it when I can afford my 3,000.00 deductible, but until then, I'm not quite sure what to do. It's been an interesting month to say the least!

April

Just to clarify re: malabsorption, just a possible theory that could be part of the puzzle -- if it does hold true for you, hard to know if it's the chicken or the egg! And it could be a separate issue entirely but I do believe with MS, so many things can be intertwined. I hope you get to the bottom of this, April! We can't have you waste away to nothing and I'm concerned! There's got to be SOME reason this is going on! :hug: