At the last doctor visit, my wife latched on to a murmur from the doc.\u00a0 He asked if I noticed if the weather affected my condition.\u00a0 My response was that while I thought the increase in humidity did me well, the elevated temperatures seemed to really increase my symptoms.<\/p>\n
His reply was simply that MS patients reacted badly from heat.<\/p>\n
We thought about this for a while. After about a week, my wife got a friend to install a window unit in my room so that I could be in a deep freeze.<\/p>\n
I have been sleeping like crazy.\u00a0 My muscle pain is reduced.<\/p>\n
I still have my spasmodic events.\u00a0 However, recovery is in hours, not days.\u00a0 The veracity of the events are not lessened.\u00a0 I have several pulled muscles from an event on Saturday and again on Monday.\u00a0 My body feels ravaged, but I feel like I’m repairing.<\/p>\n
The addition of the AC has been a god-send.<\/p>\n
One really negative thing, that I must put here so I can accept it, is the following:\u00a0 We were talking about how much trouble I have picking up eating utensils.\u00a0 A good characterization of my problem is in pealing figs.\u00a0 I can no longer peel figs.\u00a0 They either fall from my hands or I crush them.\u00a0 His explanation is that I have a feedback loop problem that is caused by the dying nerves.<\/p>\n
“Dying nerves.”\u00a0 I cried for three days at hearing that phrase.\u00a0 I had read about it in my research that ultimately that is the problem.\u00a0 But, it was the first time that I heard it come from someone else’s mouth. Ugh.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, it appears that I’m having seizures.\u00a0 I had an EEG on Thursday and we are waiting for results.\u00a0 I pray that he does identify the seizures as those are well documented and treatments are readily available.<\/p>\n
My thought process is this:\u00a0 If seizures are what is causing the spasmodic events, then we can treat them.\u00a0 The spasmodic events will still occur, but with less damage.\u00a0 This along with our methods of healing the muscles (the AC, restorative sleep, protein drinks, etc), my quality of life will improve.<\/p>\n
I so wish to be able to attend church services and travel to see my friends and their kids.\u00a0 I miss them. It has been almost two years since I’ve been able to really visit.<\/p>\n
Until then, I will continue to force myself to get adequate rest (with Benadryl assisting, if need be), and take care of my body.<\/p>\n
So, as it may be, we are still making progress.\u00a0 I’m hoping our progress out-paces the progress of the disease.<\/p>\n
I thank you all for the private messages and claims that “If anyone can figure this out, you can.”<\/p>\n
The statement is becoming a common refrain from people that know me personally.\u00a0 I am amazed in the faith all of you have.\u00a0 It emboldens me.\u00a0 We will figure this out.\u00a0 We may not ultimately be able to put a definitive name on it, but we will be able to learn how to effectively do battle with this.<\/p>\n
Until next time,<\/p>\n
In Christ,<\/p>\n
Jay C. “Jazzy_J” Theriot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At the last doctor visit, my wife latched on to a murmur from the doc.\u00a0 He asked if I noticed if the weather affected my condition.\u00a0 My response was that while I thought the increase in humidity did me well, the elevated temperatures seemed to really increase my symptoms. His reply was simply that MS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-identification","category-treatment-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}