I know it has been a long time. I had a granddaughter, went to the doctor, had MRIs, Mom had a birthday, my laptop crashed, two weeks ago,.. it rained all week and flooded, yesterday I got a new laptop, so here I am... back to writing.
I did go to the doctor, finally... He talked to me and my husband and told me I was getting worse... you think? He wanted to do test to see which medicine to start me on. He sent me to get four MRIs of my spine. It literally took all day. Then a week later, I spoke to the doctor on the phone and he told me I did not have any lesions on my spine. There is nothing to do but wait until next May and do more MRIs. He said if I start seeing double or something major like that to call him. The doctor also mentioned that by next summer a pill will be approved that has already been approved by FDA (I think that is what he said), anyway, if I wait for the pill, I won't have to take shots everyday. He explained to my husband that the shots that you take daily are the ones he would prescribe because they do the most good for my type of MS, with the least amount of side effects.
At any rate, I am glad my spine is clear and I do not have to take shots yet. I have good days and bad. On the worse days, my entire right side (and sometimes part of my left) are numb, my right arm is weak and sometimes hurts pretty bad, I have short term memory lost (I call STML), have trouble concentrating, have to go to the restroom a lot to prevent accidents, get very dizzy (I almost fell just standing in my boss' office one day), and I see blurry. On my good days, my right arm and sometimes my face are numb. I hold my youngest granddaughter, who is six weeks old, with my left arm, so I do not drop her. I do not hold her on my bad days, just in case.
I will try to keep you posted... I am going to start noting if my bad days coincide with my stressful day, or what I eat, etc. I am very busy, so I am not good at documenting, but I think I will try to start so I see if that helps.
Bye for now. Love you all!
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