I agree totally that if you bemoaned your disease to everyone, soon you would lose companions. No body wants to hear about others problems all the time, but I do think you need a good friend or companion who you can confide in and release your frustrations to. Of course, you always have your friends here at DS to rant to, so that is an option. When someone asks me how I am doing, I always put on my cheeriest face and say I'm doing great, great or not! I just can't get myself to really say how I'm doing for fear or losing people.

I agree that you cant complain about health issues all the time but sometimes you do need to vent - I have found.
You are fortunate that you can ignore to a large extent the issues you have & agree totally with reply #1 that you do need to be able to rant/confide in someone sometimes. This can be different people different times or friends here on ds board.

As an aside & rather than posting it on one of your other MANY posts on the board. I do enjoy seeing homour on the site occasionaly but this is a support board so maybe if you could limit it to 1 every post one as humour/jokes & then the others under it that would be a good way of putting them on here but not hogging the board.

My reason for saying that is that a lot of people do need to vent or ask questions & if they cant see other posts doing that then wont or if they post it will disapear off the front page quickly due to large amount of your posts. I think you mean well but please do consider others needs & the purpose of this main board too. Maybe have a look at some of the other groups/boards that are designed for that too. A lot of your posts would be great for positive ms support for instance for one.
PLEASE be considerate of others needs.

Some idiots call it a form of denial, I call it mental gymnastics. Psychosomatic works both ways. I've had 2 episodes with no residual effects over 10 or so years. Is it fate? Maybe. Is it strength and will-power, mind over body? Probably. Am I stupid? Most definitely..Am I oblivious to the fact that it may pop up anytime? "F" no!! But when it isn't there, why would I wish it was? That's just asshole-ish...I manage the ms with meds, keeping my body and mind in tune, and not bothering to realize it's there. Actually, it's not. What the hell are you talkin about?? I don't even dignify the bitch by capitalizing the letters.

"fake it till you make it" That's what I always say.

Be happy for what you have, not negative for what you don't.

Thank you for all of your positive posts!

I tottal agree. My best friend thinks I am crazy. I try hard not to complain to her, but one needs someone to talk to about this crap. My body has gone compleatly crazy. I dont know if its MS or Rebif. The crazy thing about it all is noone knows. I have been of Rebif for 4 months and have had way more happen to me since I have started taking these dang shots.

I agree Jim. I treat most things with humor and my friends know it. So when I told two of my close girlfriends about the diagnosis, they both (two seperate locations) looked at me and said 1) well at least we know why you are such a klutz and 2) now you know why you fall down all the time....yes it was said with humor and love and I took it as such. Gotta laugh cuz if you don't you start feeling sorry for yourself. And I just aint got the time for that.