We all hear it, stress can make MS worse, but does it really?

I had extremely bad spasms, like excruciating pain a month back. I finally, after much fighting, got some help and found the right medication. I have been feeling better.

So today, I have done the following.

Called 1 MRI center to get my MRI CD, had to leave a message.

Called the 2nd MRI center, to get a CD, again for a new neuro I am going to, but it is 3 hours away. I cannot pick it up. My sister is the one on my HIPA list. But she had been in the hospital with a flesh eating virus, yes, the one that kills 75-80% of the people it afflicts. So, she cannot get it. After much debate, I am able to add someone else, once I sign a form and fax it.

I fight with the computer for 1/2 hour to get the fax to work. No luck Call back, get an email address and sent it that way.

Then I called my old neuro to get my records. But it will take a while, talked a while to them and realized while my new doctor is an hour away, he does come to their office on a regular basis to help with the MS patients, although he is not an MS dr. There are no MS doctors in WV.

So, we decide to leave my chart with that office and let me see him there, which is in my town. But they can't get me in until March.

So, I will see him in Dec an hour away and schedule all future appointments in their office in my town. In the meantime, they will hold my chart and scan the info and send to his office.

I then called my insurance company about my Copaxone. But they have no record of it. Fight for a while and finally they say it might be a different Caremark department. So I called and got all that information to them. Still waiting to hear back. i fear my prescription is running out and no doctor to refill it till Dec 30.

Then there is my daughter. She is 2 and is in puberty. She is to have surgery for an implant. Not the surgery but the medicine alone is $17,000. They cannot get Caremark to cover because they say she is not in the system. If medical covers it then I pay $3,400 out of pocket just for the medicine and I don't have it. She HAS to have this medicine and fast.

So, I call Caremark, no, she is not on the plan. On my medical but not prescription, only my son Robert Jr... who evidently was born on the same day. No, I have no son. For 2 years I have fought with my husbands HR department to correct this.

So, I have been on the phone fighting to get her covered.

I am also waiting for test results to see why my baby's liver is enlarged.

So basically, a really really stressful day.

And now. I am in such excruciating pain. Muscle spasticity is through the roof.

So guess was. STRESS IS KILLER ON MS!!