i never used to be a cryer but now i have a periodic melt down.
i think it's healthy to get that all out so i can move on

It could be either, or it could be MS. When I have lesions on certain parts of my brain I am very weepy.

It could also be depression. Even if you don't really feel sad...if it continues, and you don't feel engaged in life, talk to your neuro. -Jen

Im on board with tw5, I have had a few meltdowns sence my dx. and I always feel better the next day. I think if we stay in that state of mind it might be a problem but if we break down then stand up i think it's very healthy.
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april

your husband doesn't seem to understand and needs a kick where the sun doesn't shine.

I think a lot of it is the grieving process, the knowledge what this disease CAN do and you're trying to deal with it.

I have these quite regularly. If you wanna call it feeling sorry for yourself, then so be it! I think we deserve to feel sorry for ourselves from time to time. I think it is both, because I want to do the things I used to do, and can't. Ask your hubby what he would do if everything, including his future was ripped out from under him! Whatever you call it, you deserve it with what you must put up with having this disease. Best Wishes!

I was so embarrassed awhile back when I started bawling at the IHOP. My eggs were runny!! (LOL) I think it's probably part of the disease if you didn't feel their was a reason yourself, but if you are feeling sorry for yourself (a perfectly understandable feeling) then it probably is more of a grieving thing. Just know that we have to take things one day at a time and I personally believe a strong bond with Jesus makes every day easier!! :o) Hope things improve for you! (((HUGS)))

I was having emotional challenges right after I was dx'd. Was the accompaning depression of the meds. Lexapro'd it and now am my usual asshole self..... Talk to your neuro.....soon!! Steve

and so what if it is feeling sorry for yourself....why not? you got the shaft....and it's an important part of healing is to grieve ... mourning for a life before MS and when you explore those feelings you can put MS in its place and thats the eventual goal to be reached.
is hubby close by? tell him tolean close to the screen...thwap!! leave her alone

I had this happen once in a while before my diagnosis, but not in a long time. Then after my diagnosis it came back. My neuro and doctor both decided to put me on an antidepressant to help with it, and it worked. We all need time to accept this, cry for ourselves - which is a greiving process, and do it in a healthy way. If you feel that this is healthy for you, and you feel better the next day and can move on, good! That's what your body needed. If not, talk to your neuro/doc and find out what else can help. And, yes, a lesion in a certain part of your brain can do it also (my neuro said that was part of my problem too) and the depression from MS and the meds.. all combined, too much for me to handle alone. On celexa now and it has helped incredibly.

I believe it could be grieveing process and the MS ....our bodies go thru so much and we experience so much...we feel like we have lost something,some part of ourselves...at least thats how I feel. I have had break downs and now I don't have nearly as often, only when I get frustrated that Iwant so badly to do something and I try and can't. Fortunately after 4 yrs I have come to grips, but every now and then it hits me in the face, that I have lost yet something else and it maeks me meltdown...
Hope this helped and made sense
Hugz
Morgaine
and have your hubby read this it might help him to understand a little more.
and maybe he could join the community also ...

I have heard that it can be a direct cause of MS. Some people become so mixed up in their wiring that they will actually break out laughing when they are sad, like at a funeral. If you can comfortably rule out that your crying was not a miswired event then sometimes it is just a release of pressure in your emotions. It is better to cry than to blow a gasket somewhere else in your system like a stroke or something.

But give your hubby a break too. He is a guy and they think they should be able to fix things. When they can't they get real frustrated too. Agree to disagree on the issue and find another time place and way to be intimate with each other. Good luck.

Having a disease like MS can cause your emotions to go haywire. And I might add what the hell is wrong with crying when your whole life has been altered by this kind of diagnosis?

Emotional Incontinence

Sometimes tears are very cleaning, releases pent up toxins.

Try to hold them back, you can get migraines, get some bounty and let 'em flow ;)

It is a grieving process and a good cry can help. Often after one I feel stronger because it causes me to look inward to see all that I can still do. You really should though talk with your neuro if it bothers you too much. It is hard for non-suffers to understand all we have lost. Do as I so sometimes some good decadent ice cream usually helps with the cry.

Wish I was able to cry. Might be a release of some of the tension & pain.

Can't throw up either.

Don't feel pain either. Dropped a huge fan on the arch of my foot yesterday. Hollered because I knew it should hurt! Just a bruise.

We grieve everyday for some moment or two. Who really care why? It helps us deal.