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I have two bulging disks that are significantly pressing on my spinal cord in my neck, and they're suspecting MS because even though the disk problem is significant enough that I've been recommended to have surgery, those disk problems don't begin to account for all of my symptoms. So my neurosurgeo...

A question for anyone who has had hot flashes from menopause (or some other hormonal trigger), and who has also dealt with heat intolerance from MS: What is difference of how they each feel? I had about one year of occasional hot flashes and one year of frequent and intense hot flashes, and especial...

I'd love to connect with anyone who is in Delaware, who might then be able to help me find resources, such as doctors, physical therapists, and even a personal trainer who has extensive experience working with people who have MS.

I'm in "slower lower" DE.

So telling someone to pull themselves together and calm and stop stressing, is a silly thing to say, as NOT as easy as that. Yeah, I've had my share of people saying variations on this to me. Oh yeah, that's not a problem, I'll just go to my happy place and completely ignore the day to day realitie...

Yet another question to add to this list: Is pushing yourself to exercise, even if it seems to make you even more tired or more in pain in the short run, generally going to help more than it hurts in the long run? If not, how do you know when to push yourself, and when to force yourself to chill and...

Following this thread with interest - I'm still in the early stage of "might have MS" but I'm researching it like crazy, and the chance of cognitive impairment scares me far more than any progression in physical impairment, so I'm definitely going to do anything I can to increase my chance...

Thanks, dLynn. Where I get most confused is that I stopped having any significant menopause symptoms about 3-4 years ago -- no more night sweats, no more wanting to tear my clothes off in the middle of teaching a class :wink:, no more 2-3 days each month where I morph into a psycho b*tch, and far le...

Thank you all so much for your feedback and suggestions. New questions: Is it typical for the pain to be a lot worse at night? And I'm finding that despite being exhausted all day on most days to the point of wanting to lay my head on my desk and take a nap, especially in the late afternoons which i...

Thanks for your response. I'm currently questioning whether I honestly trust my primary care to manage this for me (for several reasons) but I'm definitely going to keep him in the loop as much as I can, especially considering that he is the only one of all my current doctors who is local to me. My ...

I just found out yesterday that my neurosurgeon (who I'm seeing for disks that are pressing into my spinal cord) thinks that I may have MS, and my primary doctor has been suspecting that but didn't say anything about it to me. I have been obsessively researching since then -- I am someone who copes ...

The neurosurgeon I went to after finding out that I have two bulging cervical disks that are pressing onto my spinal cord thinks that I might have MS, because of the symptoms I have that aren't likely related to what they found in my neck (that have had me bouncing around doctors for the past year),...