new and confused
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 7:47 am
I was diagnosed with RRMS a few weeks ago. I have some questions I hope someone can help me with. 1) I feel like I have been getting worse over the past 2 months with fatigue and weaknesss, shooting electocuting type pains in foot. How do they know it is RRMS and not a progressive MS? I haven't felt well for months. I can no longer work. I basically sit in in the recliner all day. The doc says I don't have any active lesions.
2) I have had a slight limp on and off, but 2 days ago it was so severe...I felt like it was giving away...knee felt like rubber but ankle/foot felt heavy. I could only walk about 100 feet and would have to stop. If i walked stiffed leg and a lot slower I did better. The next day I was better...back to an occasional minor limp. I was not extremely fatigued when the severe limping started and it lasted all day. I am confused as to how I can do some simple exercises like leg lefts but then have limping? Does this happen to anyone else? 3) I have just started on copaxone. I seem to get chest pressure about 15 minutes after I take the shot. It stays almost all day. I don't have shortness or breath or flushing. I don't feel nervous. Does anybody else get this? Sorry post is so long. Thanks for any help you can give me.
2) I have had a slight limp on and off, but 2 days ago it was so severe...I felt like it was giving away...knee felt like rubber but ankle/foot felt heavy. I could only walk about 100 feet and would have to stop. If i walked stiffed leg and a lot slower I did better. The next day I was better...back to an occasional minor limp. I was not extremely fatigued when the severe limping started and it lasted all day. I am confused as to how I can do some simple exercises like leg lefts but then have limping? Does this happen to anyone else? 3) I have just started on copaxone. I seem to get chest pressure about 15 minutes after I take the shot. It stays almost all day. I don't have shortness or breath or flushing. I don't feel nervous. Does anybody else get this? Sorry post is so long. Thanks for any help you can give me.