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pain gone? y does it come n go?

ricanfemale30
ricanfemale30
aloha peoples...I've been thinking bout stuff...for the past 2-3days I've been pain free...I feel back to normal! I know it isn't gonna last long n maybe its a fluke..the past few days I have forgotten what its like to have pain..bad pain..pain enough to question alot...but not these past days!! as happy as I am I wonder how long its gonna last...any minute it can come back..I'm taking advantage...I can run and play with my dog!! I can walk to work tomm and not suffer..I can drive!.... but all good things come to an end... I guess my ques after all this crap I wrote is... why does this mess come and go.? why is it that one day I feel like my life sux n why can't I just sleep the pain away yet the next day pain free? I mean I'm glad but what the hell?
my bf finds patterns..and he told me when I go thru my candy moods where all I eat is sugary stuff cookies cakes pies Chocolate etc (idk I get moods where I don't want regular food I crave sugar) that those days I feel horrible..now I know sugar cravings are bad lol but I can see where it would make you lazy n tired from the sugar but a connection..eehhhh doubt it...days I don't eat sugar I still feel like crap lol...ima just roll wit the punches.. as I and my friends say... F**k it!
deleted_user
deleted_user
This is just how flares are when you have the types of MS that comes & goes in waves. It's just how flares get.

Mine are worse than the next & my symptoms seem to build & build & build until my body seems to give out completely & I can barely even life my arms or anything cause my arms for example feel like they are lifting 500lb weights. Also, I seem to (in the OK times or the manageable times) have some symptom going on at all times. For me, I count things in levels of severity...it's all relative to the day or moment before when it might of been much worse.

So yes, everyone is different & my motto is this...

"Each new day is another chance to make the day more manageable than the day before!"

My Neuro. also said that with one of the types (I get a few types) of MS epilepsy I get, well he says that, that feeling I get that my symptoms build & build & build until my body gives out completely could be a flare & it could also be that, that's what happens during a certain type of seizure I get (forget which seizure type he was referring to), but yeah, YAY me!

So my point is this with the above...it could be a flare & it could also just be that some symptoms are way worse than others & it's not even a flare at all.

& yet again, you could of just made too much of the time you had feeling well, cause you wern't sure when feeling well would come around again...

But most likely, it's the disease or diseases you have that kicked your butt.

Only you know best what your disease pattern is & what it does to you on a daily basis.

I hope that even if you do feel bad, that you can see the sunny skies regardless & when you feel some relief you can understand how far you truly came. :-)

Take care,
Stay sane!
deleted_user
deleted_user
it's a new feeling for me. for the last week i have been ok more or less.... wow, i cannot possibly describe the relief from the i am almost feeling well exhiliration....'

yet, i know it is coming back, and that is the hard part. i am trying to enjoy the good days, the ok days, the "i don't feel like i'm dying despite the pain days"wihtout worrying about tomorrow.

i empathize with you.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I have great days and horrible days. On the good days I enjoy life and get things done and try not to overdo it (because then I will pay for it afterwards). Some bad days come because that's just how MS is (I also have certain times of my cycle that are bad). And sometimes I feel bad because i overdid it or ate bad. There is a huge link between how i eat and how i feel. I normally try to be on a Swank diet with no gluten and I try to stay away from 33 foods that I have tested allergic to (rice, milk, bluberries, brocolli, oranges, tomatoes, milk, yeat etc etc ) This last week-end I ate meat, a few pastries and drank a few glasses of wine. I am still feeling horrible. you might want to get tested for food allergies (alternative test). I am OK eating chocolate if it doesn't have Maltodextrin for example.
All the best to you.