The Magical Brain #2

It has been a while since I’ve published anything on here. I have written posts but they didn’t come up to scratch in my opinion, so they never saw the light of day. So, with it being Christmas, I thought I’d send my equivalent of a round robin to just bring a few things up

The Magical Brain

Blimey, this feels a bit like a newsletter, but I think there’s a few updates and loose ends on recent posts to tie up, so here goes: Fampridine I have my first official batch of fampridine to help with my mobility. As mentioned before, I hadn’t really noticed how much it was helping me walk

How deep is remission?

Someone once said to me “MS is a companion, but not a friend.” These words ring true. I have been in remission for a while now, but I still haven’t shaken most of the symptoms. The dizziness and fatigue have been pushed into the background but they grumble along, just to let me know they

Yearly neurologist meeting – 2009

Yesterday, I saw my neurologist’s registrar – Dr Somebodyorother plus one student. I had to recap my entire MS history from Day 1 again. I always find it difficult to remember the relapses prior to diagnosis as I didn’t recognise them for what they were at the time. I did my usual set of tests.

weirdness

been quite stable for ages – just the come and go of pain and fatigue. Today, I feel a bit weird. It feels as if the side of my head is undulating and my right leg feels a bit weak – definitely something up, will monitor. May go away in a bit. Come to think

Psycho swat team

I caught something on TV the other night about someone who had a minor stroke while on holiday in the UK. As a result, he could no longer read when he woke up. He knew the individual letters on his hotel shampoo bottles, but couldn’t string them together into words. Even though they were written