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legzzalot 09-15-2009 02:27 PM

I finally figured it out...MS fatigue reminds me of...
 
The whole completely drained inability to move from my comfy position on the sofa ALL day long followed by the waking up at 3 AM and not being able to sleep... this has been pestering me for weeks now. It reminded me of something, and I could not quite put my finger on it... African Sleeping Sickness!! I know that is not it but it is amazing how similar it is. So i thought I would share.

Wikipedia says:

Symptoms begin with fever, headaches, and joint pains. As the parasites enter through both the blood and lymph systems, lymph nodes often swell up to tremendous sizes. Winterbottom's sign, the tell-tale swollen lymph nodes along the back of the neck, may appear. If untreated, the disease slowly overcomes the defenses of the infected person, and symptoms spread to include anemia, endocrine, cardiac, and kidney diseases and disorders. The disease then enters a neurological phase when the parasite passes through the blood-brain barrier. The symptoms of the second phase give the disease its name; besides confusion and reduced coordination, the sleep cycle is disturbed with bouts of fatigue punctuated with manic periods progressing to daytime slumber and night-time insomnia. Without treatment, the disease is invariably fatal, with progressive mental deterioration leading to coma and death.

KAOheim 09-15-2009 05:41 PM

Too much House for you! :D I swear I saw this on a rerun not too long ago.

legzzalot 09-15-2009 06:47 PM

I don't watch house. But good I am glad someone else thought about it. It was one of those weird diseases I was accused of having back in high school that turned out to be something else. But for some reason as I attempted to pull myself out of my half conscious state of napping this afternoon it popped into my head.

Dejibo 09-16-2009 07:55 AM

i LOVE House! I have watched every episode. He is just too funny. Seems he does alot of guessing before he gets to the real answers though.

legzzalot 09-16-2009 08:41 AM

I watched House one time. It was funny, I ended up yelling at the tv "She's got MS!" . That was the end of my House experience. Turned out she didn't have MS but some other weird thing... it was still pretty funny.


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