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One of the best resources we have in the UK are MS therapy centres and I have been lucky enough, both when I lived in Reading and now in Westbury, to only be 10 minutes away from my local centre. There are always lots of different therapies on offer ranging from Massage to Reiki to…
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I’m sure my UK readers just sang that 🤣 So I recently tried CBD gummies, I got a small trial bag from Orange County CBD, just 16mg, to try them out. You see, I take baclofen 4x a day and Dantrium morning and night for spasticity but I STILL wake up in the night poker…
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DMT stands for Disease Modifying Therapy or Treatment. Sometimes also referred to as DMD – Disease Modifying Drug. These get offered to MS patients upon diagnosis. The best bit (note the sarcasm) is that your neurologist tells you about them briefly, points you in the direction of the MS Trust’s website where you’ll find tools…
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Am I missing out on life? At the moment 100% yes. I’m in a kind of limbo right now, I won’t have a car for another couple of weeks so my independence remains constricted and that’s been since December! I’m also waiting for a referral to a specialist clinic for the spasticity in my legs…
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This is a phrase that gets banded around a lot in the MS community but nobody tells you what it ACTUALLY means. When I was diagnosed back in 2014 I was pretty fit, walked my dogs between 3-5 miles everyday, I gave up smoking and was generally very healthy with no other medical issues. So…
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All those with a chronic illness know all too well the tedium of constant hospital visits. On Monday I had a follow up on an ankle injury I sustained back in 2022 – this was the appointment I was on my way to in Dec when I crashed my bloody car. Anyway, it reminded me…
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In this day and age you are quite entitled to identify as whatever you want, if social media has taught us anything, it’s taught us that. However, I identify as a woman, a female, as was assigned to me at birth. When we first moved to our house in a new area, I had to…
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It’s no secret among those who know me, have ever met me, hell if they’ve even glanced across one of my social media profiles that I am a big dog lover. Bar one excruciating year when me and the Hubster first moved in together there hasn’t been a single time in my life when I…
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Quite literally. So I’ve had my fair share of cars in the 24ish years I’ve been driving, passing my driving test was THE #1 priority as soon as I turned 17. And I LOVE driving. I started off with a little run around for my first two years and then quickly worked my way up…
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Many of my fellow MS sufferers, or any chronic illness for that matter, will know the downright frustration of having pretty much ANYTHING else wrong. The fact that in the UK (I believe it is fairly national now?) you can only book an “on the day” Dr appointment means spending an inordinate amount of time…
The Sweary MSer 