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Originally posted by dana-needs-help:
I need help!! I think I have MS but it seems like my doctor in the town i moved to won't listen and refer me to a neurologist. Let me know if ya all think I have ms. Here are a few of my symptoms I have a bowl problem I go only 1 time in 2 weeks if I am lucky. My bladder is so bad that I have been told one more time of having to be cathered by the urologist I will have to do self cath. I go numb and tingly from the waist down including my vagina. I have horriable pain in my hips and back and wrists shoulders arms. I have been blind for 5 to 10 min only 1 time thankfully. Insomina plagues me. I am always tired even if I do get sleep. I also feel sad all the time for no reason. This is hard for me to write since strangers will be reading this but I don't know what else to do I need help. I am crying so I'll go now please don't make fun of me I coulden't handle that this is important. So important I want to take my own life just so the pain will go away. I don't cause I love my family but the feeling is still there. |
We are strangers, but we can't see you and certainly don't judge you, so you are safe with us. You have a lot of different kinds of symptoms. Please don't take your own life, it only hurts those you leave behind.
(I know, because I've been close to that thought, myself)
Sometimes it takes many doctors and tests, and even years to get diagnoses of things. You could have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, or Fibromyalgia (pain and fatigue illnesses) or you might have anemia or MS or a kidney ailment or a spinal problem, or any one of a number of things. Please keep going to doctors, keep a clear, clean list of your symptoms to give to them so you don't have to remember.
I got better with doctors when I stopped going on and on about the symptoms and just handed over a list. I realized I was starting to sound a panicky to them, and that can put them off -- they would always give me an antidepressant because they couldn't look past my being upset.
However, sometimes, your symptoms could be depression symptoms, and that's nothing to be ashamed of. That is an illness that can be fixed.
Make sure you are eating nutritiously, no fad diets or things like that -- eat a BALANCED diet, following the food pyramid -- grains, proteins, fats, carbs. I hurt my body a lot when I would eliminate one food group or another. If you are already not feeling well, make sure you are eating well, and if you're not, start doing that.
Bowel problems, in my experience, were helped a lot when I drank a lot more water and cut out sodas and teas and coffee.
Water can solve a lot of things, it gets the poisons out, is a lubricant for your insides, and can make you feel a lot better. You can also get drunk on it if you drink gallons at a time, I'm not suggesting that. I drink 2 liters a day, one in the morning hours, one after noon. It helps the bowel and bladder problems that MS causes me.
I hope you find the care you need, from a doctor. It may be something as simple as a bad diet, to MS, to stress in your life. Be strong and be an advocate for yourself, ask around for opinions about sympathetic doctors, and go to a new one. If you need help paying, ask for it from community agencies or medicaid.
Be vigorous in finding what is wrong, no one will do it for us.
Try to remain as calm as you can, because being upset only makes illness worse, and can cause illness.
Take care of yourself and good luck in your search for an answer.
bain
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