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- Still trying to find out all I can about PPMS and why the doctors are taking so long to confirm it, so this short explanation makes more sense to me:http://www.mymsaa.org/publications/ppms/Its interesting that the diagnostic tools differ somewhat...
- Hello again and thanks Lorrie for the good wishes about my upcoming hospital tests.Yesterday I went for the first (lumbar spine) MRI at the hospital, had to get to the room in a wheelchair and be supported to the MRI unit as my walking has got so...
- Sorry that Im posting more questions than answers here at the moment, but its all so new and my whole world has changed in the last 2 months!A question I wanted to ask is if usual to have some emotional changes when you have symptoms of MS?The...
- Hello everyone,Thank you for letting me join this community.I am from New Zealand, 53 years old, and have struggled with various neurological symptoms coming and going since having Viral Meningitis ten years ago,, and then had a Vertigo drop attack...
- Hello everybody, I've just joined this group as only started getting the symptoms very recently. After having some acute symptoms for a few weeks (vertigo and nausea attacks, debilitating dizziness) Im on some meds from my ENT and things are more...
- Hi all, I hope you don't mind me asking a question here since something came up in my NZ Fibro support group after one of the members suggested I get tested for MS.This is something I have never even considered before.Up until a recently I have been...
- Hello everyone, its my first time posting in this group and I know very little about the condition so please, bear with me.My situation is that when I lived in NZ I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia in 2007 and struggled with years of medications and...
- hello dear friends, i posted last week about my dilemma trying to keep going here, as a freelance English teacher working in Germany but missing my family in NZ terribly (17 yr old daughter still at school) struggling with Degenerative Disc Disease...
- Hi allI have been wanting to post here for a while but I feel really embarrassed because I dont participate enough. I check in and read through the threads every few days, I get great comfort from reading your posts, but often I just feel so...
- Sorry if this topic has been discussed before (Ive been trying to search through previous threads) but I am feeling a bit freaked out at the moment and would love some feedback from all you experienced people.Three years ago my sister became very...
- After having a pleasant weekend and a 'sweet sunday' I'm now having a Blue Monday and just needed to vent a little. Also an update following on from my post about emigrating 2 weeks ago.This Fibro thing is driving me crazy, but sometimes I worry my...
- I do feel a bit guilty that I read more than post/offer support here, but I am one of those lucky people who can have weeks, even months, when the Fibro symptoms are under control and apart from having to rest regularly and low energy levels, I try...
- Hi everyone, I haven't posted in a while (although I read) because of going through some huge changes in life (emigrating to Europe) and successfully re-training for a new career. The Fibro symptoms have been quite manageable for some months (I had...
- Hi everyoneI just wanted to ask a question I have about 'building resilience' but due to fatigue and fibro-fog not sure if it will be very clear what I am trying to ask. Apologies in advance.I've been wondering if building resilience is ever going...
- Sorry its another of those 'need to vent' posts..but no one else here to listen or understand some of the dark places we get to..Ive just come back from four days away - invited by an old friend who has bought a property in the country. Her husband...