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I’m tired. At times I just want to give up . 😢💔I’m more tired emotionally than anything else . Falling , numbness everywhere , painful injections I’m just tired of it all .

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@ErikHart 

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Can anyone tell me how painful a spinal tap is?

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@lincolnramsay 

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lincolnramsay

Does anyone have a suggestion for footware (sneakers) that don't hurt? The nerve pain in my feet make walking especially painful.

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@believer25 

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believer25

Good morning, OK I'm lying not a good morning, it's a painful morning beside MS I have lots of injuries (spinal cord injury,crushed disc,fractured right hip, blown rotater cuff ect.......)that's why I'm always in pain, I've lived a rough life but a fun one, take care everyone and God bless ❣️

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@Susanalicegrac9 

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I loved my ex so much but when I get to find out he cheats and into drugs that pissed me off so much I had no choice but to let him go I can stand a lot of things but trust me not drugs😔😔😔....so painful when I discovered that when I visited him🥲😪😭😢😢😓😓😩🥺😦

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@BM96 

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Does anyone else get painful fingers and arms

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@MarianW 

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Cellulitis painful

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@Jimmy369VT 

Jimmy369VT

Since I have moved to Florida from Vermont, I have been learning a lot more about MS as it’s whole until I actually found a neurologist that was actually specializing in MS. I did not know that not only is it a nervous system problem, but it is also autoimmune and I did not know That extreme cold and extreme heat can actually make flareups worse and if it is hereditary, it can also make the MS come out quicker. I did not know that I did 13 years making snow at a ski resort in Vermont and then when I moved to Florida, I did Five years underground construction and I always wondered why I felt funny and triple digit heat, but it wasn’t heat stroke, and there were days where if it got below zero or into the negative temperatures, my body would tighten up intense up like I was getting squished by a bow constrictor. I went years until my primary care physician told me to go see a neurologist, and then he gave me the evaluation told me to take an MRI. They did not find anything in my spine, but my brain said a lot is what the neurologist said, and then he started poking and stab in the bottom of my feet with stuff and doing a tuning fork all over my body and when I told him I couldn’t feel it in certain spots and then in other spots, I could just slightly feel it or it just felt like a ant crawling on my leg or on the top of my foot. I’ve never seen anybody that evaluated me for anything get so concerned, looking on their face and then now he wants me to do a spinal tap, which I am doing August 8. I already know it’s not going to be like the movies or television shows where it’s gonna be excruciating painful off the back. It’s going to be the next day. I’m going to have to recuperate. I have several family members with MS as well so they are kind enough to give me peace of mind explaining to me how they felt after all the stuff they had to do and I am pretty much doing the same thing and my neurologist did put me on something. I can’t remember the name of it or pronounce it but my flareup weren’t so bad, but then my colitis started getting worse so he took me off it and now as long as I just stick to easy tasks, I’m not so bad but it hurts sometimes to move. I can relate to how my mom felt towards the end now, she said she was in so much pain, but because her mind was slipping back into a childish state of mind. She had good spirits about her. My dad just turned into a zombie and he said that he only focused on walls or focused on watching a television show because it was the only way he could control the pain. I meditate to help with my pain and I listen to the doctors and follow my prescription regiment, but there are still days where it feels like I got hit by a truck and I just stood up out of bed. The scary days are when I can’t get out of bed altogether. I do not know if anybody else has ever felt like this, but there are days where I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy and to get places of business to understand what you’re going through and to explain to them OK if you have me do these tasks then don’t expect me to come to work tomorrow because I won’t be able to move. I have been rejected so many times my wife just finally decided to fill out for disability and now between my attorneys and Social Security I have my doctors not only giving me tests and labs for their peace of mind but now I have them filling out papers and forms for my attorneys and Social Security and it’s been like that for almost 3 years now every time I think we’re getting close I have more papers in the mail for my doctors to fill out or my neurologist there are days where I just wanna give up but then I think about what it would do to my family and then I sit with my son and play video gamesuntil the feeling goes away, and I snapped back into my normal self

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@Jpetridish 

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Hello, so I have a question or just want anyone’s opinion or help if possible please. I first had optic neuritis in 2021, was put on steroids and eventually got better but did leave some perminent damage. I had my first baby in 2023 and after I started to slow down breast feeding I started to get some interesting symptoms. Every morning my hands would be extremely itchy not like dry skin, but from the inside it was driving me insane it was every day and then I started getting random pain either on the top of my head like a bad bruise or on my back which I even thought was shingles, cause it was so painful to the lightest touch, but there was nothing there I even went to the doctor and in about a week that pain subsided The hand itching and the pain on my head continued though. In January I had noticed signs of optic neuritis happening again, but in my other eye, I went to the doctors right away and they had sent me to the emergency room. I was put on Iv steroids and got an MRI I was there for about four days. They saw some white matter lesions in my brain, but it wasn’t clear because of movement. They then did a spinal tap which came out clear. I had gone home and had to follow up with a neurologist about a week after I got home? I had horrible symptoms I was holding my child and my knees gave out my hands were hurting. I was twitching all the time I could not sit still it was worse when I was laying down at night my body just would not stop moving and at some point I could not feel my foot I felt like it was in an ice bucket. I was extremely tired, and I would get random goosebumps in blotches on my arms for no apparent reason I started getting some bad headaches too I then woke up one morning and I could not lift my left arm. It was like it was asleep. I would get pins and needles and different parts of my body also but the muscle weakness in my left arm was horrible. I could barely hold anything. It is still like this to this day, but not as bad if anybody came up and touched me without me, knowing my whole body would spaz out almost like my reflexes were on high drive I have seen three different neurologist since the first neurologist is convinced I have MS the other two which I actually liked better and our MS specialists keep saying I may have it. They did a repeat of my MRIs and again had some white manner lesions in my brain, but they were identical and not in the usual spots where MS lesions would be so they am holding off on fully diagnosing me and want to wait and repeat and see if there are new lesions in the following months. I have not been able to work since since I have a physical job I have good days and bad days if I get sunburn the very next day my hands feel like they’re in a vice. The pain is horrible. I want to know what everyone thinks do I have MS are they just trying to cover their butts and wait or what

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@BamAnderson88 

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Painful hands

I was diagnosed in November. So I'm still learning. This past week my hands have been swollen and hurting. All the way up to the finger tips. Is this due to MS? My lower back has been hurting too but I know I have disc damage already
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