Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Support Group
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isn't it strange how different we all are, even with the same dlsease?
Like some need heat to soothe them while others need the cold? Some need the very things that disturb others.
Example: some have recommended a warm/hot soak to relieve nerve pain, but I need a good cold soak. I keep a pair of cotton socks in a glass of water in the fridge and put them on each night for at least a half hour to get some relief. My acupuncurist recommended this to me and I find it is helping a lot. Others cringe at the idea.
I post this in hopes that you may share some of your differences from all of us with the same diagnosis of MS.
It might well help others and will certainly help me to keep my hard head out of denial. It is soooo easy for me to say I am not like that so I can't have MS.
If nothing else it might even be entertaining.
Thanks in advance for all replies. I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Like some need heat to soothe them while others need the cold? Some need the very things that disturb others.
Example: some have recommended a warm/hot soak to relieve nerve pain, but I need a good cold soak. I keep a pair of cotton socks in a glass of water in the fridge and put them on each night for at least a half hour to get some relief. My acupuncurist recommended this to me and I find it is helping a lot. Others cringe at the idea.
I post this in hopes that you may share some of your differences from all of us with the same diagnosis of MS.
It might well help others and will certainly help me to keep my hard head out of denial. It is soooo easy for me to say I am not like that so I can't have MS.
If nothing else it might even be entertaining.
Thanks in advance for all replies. I am looking forward to hearing from you.
And how many people when they first told others that they had MS were regailed with stories about others who had MS and were now doing triathletes, ball room dancing, playing tennis etc (I couldn't do these before, let alone now)
And how about explaining your invisible symptoms? Like not being able to get up off the floor when you fall, or feeling as though someone is giving your ankles chinese burns...
I hold fast to the thought that I am unique, I do what I can to keep the disease at bay and take any opportunity to educate people about my condition. I also read heaps , especially here, and have benefitted from the many pieces of advice, like the socks in the fridge! That will be wonderful here as we swelter in the hottest temps for many years.
Jill
I live with those differences as my daughter and I can have so different symptoms. I have heat and cold intolerance, she has only heat, but feels my room too cold but only bothers her skin.
We laugh because you can make one woman with the two of us. Because one can do what the other one cant.