This Saturday was spent applying for jobs I "might" be able to do and hardly anything else. I have been drinking. Yes, I know, I shouldn't on the meds, but unless a person can tell me they feel everything I'm feeling in terminology I comprehend, I don't care. One thing I've noticed since I started to drink is that my symptoms have seemed to get better. Is that because they weren't going to show their ugly face this evening? Or, because something about the drinking has "helped" my symptoms? I still have some, but not nearly as bad as they were starting to get earlier this afternoon. The xanax seems to make it worse, and the klonopin knocks me out so I don't know what I'm doing (other than the frequent trips to the potty-store)(I drink lotsa the H2O's). The Lyrica helps a (very) little amount with the muscle pain/weakness/burning. But, the big thing is... My knees haven't been tremoring nearly as much as usual. They were before I started drinking. So, what happened? Isn't alcohol bad for us? I mean, everyone thinks I'm drunk all of the time anyway.... and sometimes I even question myself with how "out of it" I am and "dysfunctionally-related to gravity" I am. But, sincerely, since this started, I haven't been drinking a lot. A glass of wine here and there or a beer. But I haven't been drunk in ages. I'm still doing the "relaxed-shaking" whilst sitting, but the walking is better.... Is it alcohol??? Or, am I just fooling myself? Maybe wishful thinking... If only that worked with the healthy things in my life. :/
"Alcohol also helps to increase the release of dopamine, by a process that is still poorly understood but that appears to involve curtailing the activity of the enzyme that breaks dopamine down." ---- http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/i/i_03/i_03_m/i_03_m_par/i_03_m_par_alcool.html
This makes me seriously question the thought of P.D. No doctor would encourage alcohol consumption. There's no way of getting an accurate answer to my question of "Does alcohol help neurological symptoms?" But, I have read where a few people have agreed that alcohol lessens their symptoms... And, as mentioned previously.... If we seem drunk anyway, what's the harm?!
Hi Anya,
ReplyDeleteGood post, for me it seems to improve my balance and my "MS walk" and a few other minor problems,
downside of alcohol for me, is it send my fatigue and L‘Hermittes into overdrive, but for me i rather Tingle, its worth the beer :)
Rapid, my L'Hermittes is so regular that I'm starting to not notice it's so frequent. I don't know if it's ms or parks or what, but the symptoms go back in forth, and my mind is confused (moreso) from this. But, the alcohol did help. Now I'm sober-ish after a quick nap and I feel my toes starting to do their thang. How long have you be living with diagnosed ms? What were were first symptonms?
ReplyDeleteSorry, Rabid.... still a little asleep... I sincerely didn't mean to misspell your name.
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