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Dawn Langdon, Professor of Neuropsychology at the Royal Holloway, University of London, is supervising the following study:   Guest-post: MS mindset – Multiple Sclerosis Research Blog MULTIPLE-SCLEROSIS-RESEARCH.ORG Many people with MS experience cognitive difficulties (poor concentration, trouble remembering, “cog fog”…). We know quite a bit about how these difficulties play out on formal...   “We are trying to find a questionnaire that a person with MS could fill in, which could tell any health professional something useful about that person’s experience of their cognition. This could help the nurse or doctor present health information in a helpful way. It could flag up cognitive difficulties to health professionals and trigger them to monitor the additional risks that cognitive difficulties bring (poor disease management, including medication adherence; increased risk of falls and driving accidents; decreased involvement in life generally, including employment difficulties.   If you would like to help, are a person with MS and can spare 30 minutes, please fill in our online survey.
Also please pass this on to anyone else that you think might be interested.   This study is the MSc Clinical Psychology thesis project for two students at Royal Holloway, University of London.”      

I don't get those type of electric shock sensations, but I do get what feels like a thousand wires shorting (vibrating) in my feet, legs and abdomen. I can't take Pregabalin or Gabapentin due to side-effects but I have found that Tegretol (or Carbamazepine) helps, not 100% but it does mostly reduce the sensations. It's normally given to MSers for TN but my neuro told me, when first prescribing it, that it can act as a pain killer for other types of (nerve related) pain. NSAIDs don't touch any of these neuropathic pains for me either. Tegretol's not an opiate either.   Clonazepam can help with sleep too. This, like Tegretol, is initially an anti-epileptic, and is usually given to MSers for spasms. I find it helps a bit with the sensation of short-circuiting wires, but not as much as Tegretol.   I can sympathise with the sleep problems, I get this weird insomnia too... I can be so tired that my eyes are burning and closing, I go to sleep and wake up an hour later, wide awake. I once tried Valerian but it unfortunately did nothing for me; I wasn't aware it could help pain too. When desperate, I now take a Sominex, which is an antihistamine really, and I sleep like a log, except it can make me a bit groggy the next day, so I now tend to take half a tablet and it seems to work the same but leaves me less or not groggy.   I haven't found any natural things that help either pain or the insomnia-type sleep problems for me personally. However, CBD oil, which otherwise does nothing for me except maybe help my TN, does tend to help me stop "ruminating" when going to sleep.

I totally agree with @Stumbler! Truly impressive   Can't wait to see the end result!

Well done, @HairyPete and @Shirl. Pretty impressive stuff.   

I went to the doctor's the other day and told him my hearing wasn't as good as it should be. He said, "What are the symptoms?" I said, "Homer's a yellow fat bloke and Marge has blue hair."

The hair, beard and fund are all g(r)owing well and we hope to hit the £1,500 mark before I'm back at our local shopping centre in August. We're very much looking forward to meeting all the brilliant team at MS Trust HQ next month. I haven't yet given permission for them to stroke The Beard, but I probably will.   Now there's an idea; charge people for rummaging in the undergrowth. OK, I know there's a gag in there somewhere.