My Topic Wants List is dwindling....

[sllowe]

My MS Topic Wants list is dwindling - anything you want me to dig into? You know I'll be all too happy to find something good for us.
Spill your wants :)

-Shell

[sllowe]

Hi Princepaso,

Here are a few of our discussions on cooling vests with info.
You can find more using the search this community feature - let me know if you have a problem finding it.

For starters:

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Multiple-Sclerosis/Another-question-about-cooling-vests--etc/show/1220514

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Multiple-Sclerosis/Cooling-vest/show/1532004

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Multiple-Sclerosis/MSAA-cooling-vest-offer/show/1546038

[yorkieville]

Hi, shell.
There is one thing I'd love for you to research, because I keep coming up with nothing.
MS effect on the interior anal sphincter muscle & inability to completely empty bowels.
I've seen 4 G.I.Doc's and not one of them could find a solution to the problem. One G.I. Doc prescribed Misoprostol, to help my bowel contract, and all it did was give me diarrhea, which I cannot pass. (Stool has to be firm enough to force that muscle open.)
I've gone through every bowel test imagineable and the only one that showed anything was the Dynamic Proctography, which showed I have absolutely no urge to evacuate.
I am so tired of the feeling of stool, just sitting on my pelvic floor.
Thanks in advance.
(((HUGS)))
Sheila

[sllowe]

You got it Sheila. Tell me 1st if you have spinal lesions?

[devilsadvocate999]

HI,

yes i too have the same problems - I do have a lesion(s) on my spine, and I am unable to 'go' unless I have some serious help along the way, which gives me terrible stomach cramps as I have to take so many!

any advice appreciated,

thks

[yorkieville]

shell,

I have MS without visible lesions. Thanks for any thing you can find. I am so fed up with G.I. Doc's "thinking" it is constipation.

My one good G.I. Doc understands that it is not constipation, and prescribed Misoprostol to help my bowel contract, but all it did was give me diarrhea, which sits there, because it cannot force the muscle open.

(((HUGS)))
Sheila

[yorkieville]

You have the same problem?

I'm stunned, I haven't found anyone else with it. But, I am sorry that you are also dealing with it. It is miserable.

May I ask, when you use anything to help, are you able to evacuate completely, or does your internal anal sphincter muscle seem to clamp shut?

Sheila