Oh, you are speaking my language. I have broken most of my dishes, glasses, and mugs. I should buy stock in a paper towel company because I stockpile the stuff. Knock stuff over? Every day. Drop stuff? Every day. Once my EXCELLENT reflexes were on overdrive and the item I was holding jumped from hand to hand as I attempted to prevent dropping it. As I understand it, the loss of understand where your limbs are in space and time causes the problem.

YES! finally, a reason for being a klutz! all of those embarrassing moments in high school of falling in public can be explained!

this is all so familiar. could you imagine all of us in the same room? it would have to be empty and padded!

I swear, sometimes, I'm like a scene out of that Urkel show. I set my mind to pick something up, but it drops. I reach to pick it up, and knock something else over, or drop something else, while in the process of picking up the first thing. Before I know it, there's about 6 or 7 extra things on the floor,

Fibbidy Floo,

You described what I do exactly!! I bend down to pick up something, put that back and knock something else over. It's great to find others who do exactly the same things. MS is just such an interesting disease. Constant surprises.

Hello Michelle! I've been away from here for awhile....as I haven't been Dx with MS (at least not as of yet?). Anyways, I drop in from time to time, just to read up on some of these topics (as I'm still baffled over my symptoms that do NOT match Fibro!) and when I read yours, I just had to respond. THIS IS ME TO A "T"!!!

In fact, it's getting so bad that my rheumatologist sent me for PT to work on balance/coordination & muscle tone. Instead of it (balance/coordination) getting better, IT'S GETTING WORSE!!! Funny thing is I was exactly the opposite when I was younger & healthier. I was a faily good athlete...basketball, tennis, softball, volleyball, cheerleading...then there was skiing, painting, piano, horseback riding, etc... Couldn't have done all those things without great coordination & agility. I've always had great Fine Motor skills too ("was" very artistic). So, this is ALL new to me!

My husband now refers to my "mugs" as my "sippy cups"...as I'm FOREVER making messes! LOL! I'm CONSTANTLY knocking things over when I reach for them (misjudgement/visual accuity, hand tremors, or poor coordination??), dropping things when I think I have a good grasp (?), tripping over "nothing," bumping into walls/doors/objects that I can clearly see!, bumping into items/clothes racks, buggies, people in public places, and I STILL have these strange sensations that....when I move my head sometimes, It feels like "my whole body is moving" and it really throws me off! Also, I will be walking and suddenly it feels like I'm falling to the right (?) And forget trying to walk in the dark....my mind seems to lose all sense of "body-in-space" awareness! This ALL started over 2 years ago when all my other neurological symptoms started up, and has gradually gotten worse!

Also, when we are dropping things, do you think that has to do more with muscle control/nerves, or coordination?....or maybe a little of both?? I swear I must look like a drunk walking around sometimes. I get some of the strangest looks when I "suddenly" start "staggering/falling, bumping into things" in public. I just hate it!! Although...I'm starting to go out into public less & less.....I can no longer seem to control my bladder either!!! :(
So yeah...join me up in the "KLUTZ CLUB!!" LOL! ;)
~tj

I am absolutely not a klutz. I have the unfortunate luck to own many inatimate objects that move on their own, and many of my dishes, glasses, and silverware seem to be suicidal and are constanly jumping to the floor. I am thinking maybe an exorsim might be in order. I also have a problem with some pieces of furniture as each time I bump into them and say "excuse me," they do not respond, which I find really rude.

The other problem I have, which I am going to talk to my landlord about, is that the corners, especially around doorframes, seem to get smaller and wider. I don't know what that is about, but it seems that I think I have left plenty of room, I just walked through one way, and blam, the space is different. I am hoping he can find some wood that will stop expanding at will.

I am not naturally a klutz. I was a skilled martial artist with excellent balance. Lately I have not been as coordinated as I used to be.

just klutzy the past 2 years...hehe
I hate it, and my family teases me...trying to see the light side of it

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"Do you really want me to help set the table and do the dishes? That's your good china, isn't it?"

Love your humor! I've also bumped into an inanimate object only to say 'Excuse me'. It was a little embarassing at first, but not anymore. My floor hasn't 'smacked' me yet, but it's come close. Often when I bend down to pick something up I hang on to something as if I am 'down there' too long, I get light-headed. I thought of your responses to this post earlier today when I stood up and knocked some things off a small table.

Keep smiling!

I too am alwasy dropping things or walking into furniture. We have small hme so it's not so easy to avoid bumping into something. Constant dizziness doesn't help either.

Yes, I knock over drinking glasses and wine glasses all the time, and break them. I think if is called "intention tremor." You reach for something with your hand and a slight tremor throws off your aim and you end up knocking it over instead of grasping it. MS makes you klutzy, unfortunately. I also cannot walk through a door sometimes without glancing one of my shoulders on the jamb. Balance difficulties.

This thread has really helped me smile! I used to be a dancer (had my own dance studio in my home for 8 years while my kids were growing up). I used to have great balance. Not so much anymore. Yoga poses are more challenging for sure. I also have a tremor in both hands, worse in the right. I am always losing my grip while holding things and then splat, it's on the floor. It's just nice to know I am not alone... and so nice to read the humor!! It helps my perspective.

I was at a restaurant once, bumped into the divider between booths and said "excuse me" out of habit (like the others that say it to furniture). Someone sitting in the booth hidden behind some plants said "you're fine" and it startled me!

:o)

Thats my middle name it seems. I always am knocking something over and it is so frustrating but that's MS.

if i react to quick ops it happen again. So I have had to slow down to try not to knock thing or drop thing
It is a patience thing you learn after 22 years of this shit