Bleurrggghhh!

That’s how I feel. My better half is wrapped up in bed with a stomach bug, and after a day of feeling a bit bloated I am wondering if I might have the same thing. I hope not. Last time I had a stomach bug – a bad one – I spent a night of

Mr Pharmacist….

….won’t you help me out today, in your usual lovely way Popped into the chemists today to see if the “NO ALCOHOL” warning on my amitriptyline tablets, really means NO ALCOHOL. A twinkly-glassed, tank-topped, phar-therly figure appeared from the back room as if by magic and assured me it was OK on the dosage I

I’m in pain…

It’s not pain as you would conventionally know it and it’s really difficult to describe the sensation. My feet and lower legs feel like they want to shrivel up and shrink into themselves with occasional stabs of more conventional pain from my toes. I used to describe it as a crawling sensation, but that doesn’t

My MS History – Part Six

After one more session of double-checking with the consultant where he had yet another student in tow – it seemed I was becoming a textbook example of nystagmus – it became apparent that the steroids really hadn’t done their job. So to suppress my existing symptoms I was prescribed Gabapentin. I had been given details

DeViL’sArse

I’m not in the habit of complaining, and I don’t want to be the sort of person who does, but the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) have seen fit to part me from my driving license. Apparently multiple sclerosis falls into a category of degenerative medical conditions whereby I can only be issued with