ms can and does do lots of very strange things to our body. I might politely suggest that when "YOU" have a health issue that "YOU" keep your mouth shut at first and let the doctor find a cause. When they are completely lost or want to subject you to lots of tests, then "YOU" might suggest ms as being a possible;e cause.
It is very easy to blame ms for anything and everything. For a long time, I blamed it for burning feet only to find out that it was prediabetes. I forgot that a person had once told me not to blame everything on ms, there are other problems out there, and having a somewhat lethargic lifestyle at the time, that it could be other things.
So I know it is easy to just say it is ms, but look a little deeper and find out of it really is. It all boils down to, yes, "WE" have ms. It is a very sneaky and mischevious condition, but why give it more power over us than it already has. Why give it credit for every malady in our body. ms does not cause hangnails and to the best of my knowledge it does not do heart attacks either. Accepting the easy answer and blaming ms for everything hurts us.
Learn your body and learn your ms. If something is not quite right look for answers. Yes, sometimes it is ms, sometimes it is just eating a little better and doing some exercise.
Today in 2018, "YOU" as a Relapsing Remitting ms (RRms) person you have many many tools and resources to make your life the best mslife that it has ever been. Do not sell yourself short, do what "YOU" have to do to make your mslife great. People can help "YOU' but "YOU" need to make that decision and start doing.
Royce
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So agreed. Because I'm new to MS, I labeled everything abnormal that's happening as "MS" related. It might not be.
what's hard is that I might have had MS way before official diagnosis. So there's also a lot of things that I have adjusted to, that are actually not normal. Go figure. Time will tell. The new normal. The new trends. Downward or upward. I will learn.
Yes, ms is tricky like that, I for years thought my bladder issues were because I drank too much beer, turns out that ms was playing with the bottom half of my body. Believe me, lots of weird things happened before diagnose(DX) we all have had ms for a long time.
I started going to a functional medicine doctor a year ago and she tests for things my regular primary care provider doesn't. For example, she tested my iodine level and it was so low it didn't register (less than 20 was the cutoff). I'd been more tired all summer and, of course, chalked it up to the MS. So when I got my iodine level back I googled it. Guess what the symptoms are? Fatigue, weakness, trouble learning new things, trouble remembering things, among other symptoms. Of course I'm tired and weak and have brain trouble -- I have MS! Right? Well maybe there is something going on in addition to the MS that can be fixed. I'll still be tired, just not AS tired. My thyroid labs were a little off and she ordered a thyroid scan and found I have a multinodular goiter (probably related to the low iodine - duh!). I'm glad she doesn't assume that every symptom I have isn't necessarily just the MS.
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New to this site but not new to MS
It was only MS!
Differences in MS service.
Ms has left me wanting!
