MS attacks

[meg321]

I  always hear about MS attacks and I don't even know what it is or what it means,  Since I started seeing DRs about this it has been pretty much the same with some ups and downs.

The only really big thing i remember is something that happened where i ended up with vertigo for a few weeks, and was taken to ER where i was finally told it was a stroke.  I am not sure i believed that and our DRs are worthless a lt of times. Thats when i started going downhill.

if anyone can explain "attacks" to me , i would appreciate it.

hugs, meg

[meg321]

Thanks everyone, i guess i have had minor changes but dont pay a lot of attention. I could have had them in the past and  I was not even aware i had a problem, i just lived with them and easily explained them away, sometimes with the drs help...lol

I could almost live with this if it were not for the fatigue, bad, bad stuff.

hugs, meg

[swellkell]

MS flareups can be a huge number of things.  Some of the flareups I've had over the last eight years have been...loss of color vision (improved quickly with solumedrol), bladder control problems, tingling and numbness in my extremities,  hypersensitive arm, banding around the midrif, shooting shocklike feeling when I move my neck a certain way...these are all common MS flareups.  But there are lots more.  Every day is an adventure!

[GrannyJo6]

Another "big" word for attack is exacerbation - refers to something flaring up or getting worse.

saveone, you said it very well.

[saveone]

MS attack is simply another term for a flare or episode.  Meaning an increase/appearance  in/of old symptoms or appearance of new symptoms.

[jensequitur]

It's very difficult to see when you're feeling better when you're feeling bad so much of the time.  It took me about a year to really see my relapses and remissions.  Until recently, I just felt kinda bad, then felt worse, then would feel kinda bad again.

[meg321]

I know what you mean, i will get back to this tomorrow...good nght

[PastorDan]

Meg, read what you're able in our "Health Pages" section by clicking the yellow button up and to the right of this page.  I'm up way later than I ought to be or I'd trade messages with you, to tell you what little I know.  Besides, I know this forum has a lot of people who know a lot more than I know.