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Disability and Manic Depression
Sep 17, 2008 01:06PM in the Bipolar Disorder Community
I have ms and Bi polar. I applied for dissabillaty 3 times and was denied the 4th time I applied my lawyer had me include bipolar. the 4th time it was allowed. I don't know if this helps but good luck.
I Think Chantrix threw me into a bi polar spin
Sep 17, 2008 12:58PM in the Bipolar Disorder Community
I have been bi polar all my life... DX since I was 16... I have been off my meds for the last 4 or 5 years and have been coping. well I also have MS and I got Pnemmeonia so the doc wanted me to stop smoking...so he put me on chantrix.... long story short here it is 4 months later and I can't get ahold of my moods... I am on 200 MGs of topamax 100 mgof cl...
numbness on my right side! Is it the pain in my back or my MS?
Aug 16, 2008 04:04PM in the Multiple Sclerosis Community
My first MS exacerbation brought with it pain when I touched cold either with my feet or hands. My numbness was in both sides but I had a lesion afecting my left side which caused me to have foot drop on the left and be much weaker on that side as well. I took predinosone and solu mederol. I later had a porta cath surgically implanted in my arm for so...
How do you determine the "onset" of symptoms?
Aug 16, 2008 03:02PM in the Multiple Sclerosis Community
I was Diagnosed in January of 03... at the time it seemed like my symptoms came on in a whirlwind... I had thought that the onset of my symptoms were in the summer of 2002... now that I have had the disease for a little bit longer and understand how random it can be I don't just attribute the big overwhelming symptoms to MS but also the small odd ones... I th...
Will I be able to go fishing or not???
Aug 12, 2008 01:12PM in the Multiple Sclerosis Community
Even if she is miserable I would imagine she will be happier with her mamma... Kayleigh is my daughter's name only spelled differently (Kailee is mine)... I used to just tell her that it was a name that was Irish in oirigin, but we found that it was also a name for an Irish house party. So if you are fishing and run into anyone and the questions abo...
popping vein
Aug 11, 2008 09:12PM in the Multiple Sclerosis Community
Yeah doesn't Renna Rock! My Son's did not end up being hematoma. The Doctor told me that they hurt alot but it was only tender after my son heard him say that it should hurt and it only hurt him while we were in the clinic until he forgot that it hurt. Also my sons had no color. Was like a colorless mole that grew over night. The Doctor told me tha...