Yesterday was a rough day. I had a lot of increased weakness and proprioceptive issues with my left arm and hand. I think this may be the beginnings of Tysabri withdrawl or Tysabri Rebound Effect. Either way, it’s no fun to have MS symptoms returning and worsening. Thankfully, today my arm feels better, pain-wise, and is moving a little better as well. Hopefully it will stay that way. I’ll be calling my neuro tomorrow to get set up for my next IV steroid.
I saw another doctor yesterday who wanted to help me with my depression/anxiety, as well as neuropathic pain. So, I was given scripts for Cymbalta and Ambien. The Ambien is hopefully just going to be a temporary thing to help me retrain my body to go to sleep at a more appropriate hour at night. I need some good rest to try and give my body a fighting chance at trying to heal.
Oops… flu shot, no thanks! I got Optic Neuritis and was diagnosed with MS three weeks after my last flu shot in 2009. Coincidence? Dunno… but it sure didn’t help my situation. Never again.
I have a mild flair of old symptoms due to my long illness and now I have trigeminal neuralgia! AHhhhhhh!
The MRI showed no new MS lesions just lots of old scars. The MRI showed a large inflamed cyst in my left maxillary sinus close to my eye and touching the trigeminal facial nerve. Thus my tingling and facial pain. Also the rest of my symptoms are just pseudo-exacerbations of past issues, now brought on due to my current infections in both left and right maxillary sinuses. I’m on hard core antibiotics now (my third one thus far) to help this and also on pain meds for the facial pain.
I am feeling SO much better on the new medications and am finally having much less tingling, weakness, and pain.
About damn time!
