So So
June 3, 2009 9:45am
Am still stuck at around 213 but have not been truly trying. Feel fortunate I have not GAINED weight. My legs hurt today but I just …
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10 %
Current Weight (Lbs)
213
finally4me
9:43am, June 3, 2009
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About Me
finally4me
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About Me
I am nowhere near as passionate about anything as I was in college. I don't even have hobbies! My passion would have to be my daughter and my two lovey dovey dogs. I'm studying to be a social studies teacher of middle school. Overall, I have ceased believing in coincidences. I believe EVERYTHING, good and bad, happens for a reason. I was diagnosed with MS in 2003.
I am nowhere near as passionate about anything as I was in college. I don't even have hobbies! My passion would have to be my daughter and my two lovey dovey dogs. I'm studying to be a social studies teacher of middle school. Overall, I have ceased believing in coincidences. I believe EVERYTHING, good and bad, happens for a reason. I was diagnosed with MS in 2003.
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Interests
reading; current events; teaching; history; walking trails; my daughter's well-being; my dogs
reading; current events; teaching; history; walking trails; my daughter's well-being; my dogs
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Journal Entry for May 26, 2009
May 26, 2009 9:47am
Feeling better - legs do not hurt, and lower back is not as excruciating. However, I have been working out, been good on my food, and …
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AM WEIGHING IT AT 212
May 25, 2009 7:52pm
Am already the member of Spark People which is also a very suppotive site. I just think that due to our relapses, which are totally …
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Hi............ I have a Q, Could MS, be reason I had Horrible menstural cycles @19-40yr (had hystorec. in 2005). tomi10 43, F
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Close Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Type: Relapsing-remitting MSI was diagnosed in 2003. Solu-Medrol treatments apparently threw me into early Menopause. I asm 48 now. I try to not think about having the disease; but that's getting harder to do, as you know, daily injections bring it to the forefront; and I have chronic pain - some due to my osteoarthritis, some (legs) the M.S.
Treatments
- Baclofen Somewhat Helpful
- Just not worth the extra money
- Copaxone Working / Worked
- Side effects are huge welts, itching immediate after injection that goes away pretty quickly
- Neurontin Working / Worked
- I think I should go back as the Lyrica is too expensive. It was so long ago I don't recall side effects, effetiveness, etc.
- Prednisone Working / Worked
- Last relapse was about 3 months ago and concisted of severe right arm pain - MRI showed new active lesion at C4. Pain went away with 2 days of prednisone; however seem to have permanent total numbness of thumb and forefinger.
- Provigil Not Working
- Did not work 0- Amantadine and Ginseng work better.
- Rebif Not Working
- Tried it - side effects were waking in the middle of the night with flu like symptoms - body aches, chills, etc.
- Solumedrol Working / Worked
- As everyone knows, I gained far too much weight too quickly - you look like the Michelin man. Once it was for retrobulbar optical neuritis (my dx.) and another for severe leg pain. It worked.
- Swimming Not Working
- Didn't seem to have much of an effect
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