We need an MS SIMULATOR!

[sllowe]

Well, WE don't really need one - but the non-MSers need one.
Many of us MSers, Limbolanders, and Differential Dxers deal with invisible MS related problems!

Wouldn't it be nice it there were a Simulator?

   Ok -  If I were to make one (I can see it now)....you stand in it, and on the inside your legs feel like 100 lbs, it's hard to maintain balance (the floor can be tilted, lol)
- you have to look through blurry, or jerky hard to focus glasses, things are going on around you at a very normal pace, but you can't keep up because not only can't you concentrate, you can't move so good to get ahold of yourself, and then, wham warm water runs down the person in the simulator's leg for no good reason. But, all the while, everyone that looks at the person in the simulator thinks they are perfect!  They can't see! They can't feel it!

Aaaah, where are out engineers when we need em. I'll draw it, if someone will build it!!!!!

(((hugs)))
-shell

[jujuminx]

How about we make them walk over some hot coals?!   They can get feet on fire and walking over rocks sensation all in one fell swoop.

Julie

[COBOB]

Too many different effects and disabilities from MS.  

Direct Sensory - tinnitus, blindness, paraesthesias, synesthesias, dysesthesias
Indirect Sensory - spasticity
Motor - limb heaviness, paralysis, clonus, myoclonus, dysphagia, etc.
Mixed effect - Seizure Disorders, mixed cognitive effects, fatigue and lassitude, problem sleeping, CNS pain disorders, etc.

Just trying to write the requirements and specifications for that type pf simulator would be a major undertaking.  Oh, and then the the effects can change at any time during the simulation and hit you with a new combination at every relapse.

Bob

[AMO]

hahahahahaha!!!! :)

hoow bout when they inside this  simulator try too explain what's going on, voices on a loud speaker saying  "there's not enough lesions., go home and you'llll be ok"
then when you try explaining harder it says " this is all in your head"..."this is all in your head" LOL

[doni54]

Great idea, Shell, but also add a pitcher of cold water being poured down their backs and electric shocks everywhere....hahahahaha

Oh, and make them try to carry on a conversation with a mouth full of marbles......heehee

Boy, we're mean, aren't we?

[sllowe]

hahahahaha

Yes! It will now sit atop a sway bar! And, will feature the straight jacket (orange of course) w/pull cord, lol  And, the automated voice that tells them how fab the look the moment their temp rises, ahaha  These are the best -

what else should it be equipped with???? It should be hot in their right?

[jujuminx]

Thanks for the laugh girls.

How about putting  an invisible vice around their rib cage and putting the setting on max?  When they complain we can say, "But you look so good!".

Julie