My MS & pregnancy
Me & my MS "everyone is different" phrase neurologists used adfinitum, I KNOW!!! I wanted to scream at them ๐ซ
NOT MS advice๐
My MS tale started 17 years ago, taken to my bed feeling wanting to throw up & intense nausia all the time.
I had a lot of the classic symptons aswell-couldn't walk unaided,crap balance with wooziness, vertigo,blurred vision,slurred speech,hand tremors,neck tremors- drs said I had aggressive MS (never had fatigue though). After a few weeks in hospital I was discharged & then was making a slow recovery at home. Then I got pregnant with my 2nd & I went down hill immediately. Back in hospital where I stayed for 8 months, with morning sickness & intense sadness at such a time when I should've been blooming, worried that my developing baby would get some of that sadness in her ๐
I had my baby & couldn't look after her but luckily had a completely supportive partner. He took on the lions share of looking after me & our babies (& his elderly parents).
Well what about the MS you're thinking. Well 17 years on I have two teenagers.I no longer feel that intense nausea/vomitting, my hand shakes are gone, neck still has a slight wobble, speech is back to normal, sight is no longer blurred,balance near normal.
As I said previously I've stopped the physio/MS nurse & I've taken control of
my own recovery to such a point where I do 1/2 an hour on the exercise bike daily & walk up the road with my 4 wheeled walker.
Part of the drs efforts to heal me were steroids,chemo even beta blockers at one stage. Horrible medical procedures too like lumbar puncture, suprapubic catheter pulled out of me & another reinserted every 6 weeks. Just writing about this I can't believe I had all this done to me & I'm still here ๐
I don't really think you were expecting all this from me,so sorry , it feels like I've just vented when I haven't really done so before ๐ฌ
I have got a few bits of advice that I think I'm in a good position to give -AMINO ACIDS! was something I really wish I'd had more of-they are proteins (building blocks of life) found in meat,eggs (even quinoa,I didn't know that before). Maybe if I'd had more of them MS wouldn't have happened to me. Look out for bladder infections-they are absolutely awful. Prevalent around pregnancy but never had it explained to me why. Cranberry juice is a food natural cure,so much better than drugs (who wants to take any medication when you are pregnant)