Waiting on MRI reports

Holly,

I wish that I could snap my fingers and make all of this resolve for you.  So sorry to hear that things have gotten worse lately, but maybe that will end up being good.  Can't wait to hear what your MRI report says and what the neuro also says afterwards.  Nobody wants this disease, but it is nice having a name for it.

Also, I'm really glad that you had read about numbness and sexual dysfunction.  Just knowing what the possibilities are help us to be proactive in our own care.  So glad that I insisted upon writing about that topic with our producer who wasn't so sure it was appropriate. 

Just so that you know.  I have numbness which travels down my arm to my 4th and 5th fingers.  The numbness stems from the lesions in my neck between the C4 and C6 level.  Curious to see if you have any changes on your MRI in that same general area.

Hang in there and come vent here ANYTIME you need!!

Holly,I hate to say this, but it's normal the wanting to know the result. One advice

from me is as soon as you know start MS meds ASAP. My doctor told me that I had quiet MS, however just 7 months,I became RRMS and the lesions are too many to count. It does not matter if there is only one . . . MS is MS. I'm just sharing with you what I went through if I come across too pushy I don't mean to. Iremember crying in the car just before entering my home I mean crying real hard.

In retrospect, what I found helpful was to see a therapist and now continue to see a pysch doctor. The diagnosis is like a death of a loved one, fear and uncertain of the future. The pain is overwhelming and it  brought out depression, I had always a tendency of depression, but was never medicated. My mother was unfit and did not care for my brothers & me we  became ward of the court, there was always that underlying depression.

That pain you described is all too familar, I see PT , Chiro( massage and electric therapy it's mild it's called a tens unit)& it does help me.

I have cervical radiolucpathy it's pain on the upper back & neck the pain shoots out to arms all that numbness pins and needles. I now have carpul tunnel and something about the elbow pain is what I'm experiencing, I may need surgery to correct it. please follow up with hand specialist or your doctor.

I was on cymbalta for depression and it help me with aches too, and it was amazing, but then i was hospitalized for bladder retention the most awful experience.

anyway I told my neuro doc about the leakage it was so embrassing, but I was lucky to see a great urologist, he taught me how to self cath and put me on detrol now i use ditropan, i now only use the latter when i take my avonex injection i only cath after that injection. remember kegels i do it almost daily. I don't need to wear liners anymore, but when you are not feeling well or have an exacerbation it will happen again.

i am now on Pristiq I love it, I'm going through alot of stress and if it was not for this med i don't think i could cope.

i'm sorry for the typos my hands are off today. I hope you feel better and remember

you are in for a ride, but something happens you get this strengh you didn't know you had, that is what happened to me.

god bless i hope you find relief soon.