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Have a look at this image from verywellhealth.com it talks about the ways muscles are affected in ms the first one weakness that can affect your thighs or your arms imagine you’re going to step up on a chair and then if you can’t lift your other leg up that’s an example of muscle weakness or going the other way like for
Example my brother he’s got a garden with terraces you know like individual terrace things so there’s only a tiny little wall really and i went to hop down it and my knees bent as i got to the bottom and i couldn’t strengthen my legs enough to stand up properly i ended up on my knees in the garden so that’s that’s
An example of muscle weakness another one is drop foot drop foot is a muscle weakness as well and that’s when you can’t do the heel toe thing because your your foot doesn’t come up i get that quite bad when i first got diagnosed i learned how to run 10k a day by using a walk run walk method oh i was so pleased i could do
That um but i kept on tripping over kerbs when i went up a road onto the pavement or the sidewalk if you’re in america would’ve run a long way then anyway so i kept on catching my foot running up kerbs so i stopped going up kerbs and then i started having trouble with paving slabs that were up a little trip
Over them and in the end i ended up tripping over my own bloody shadow and so i had to stop running so you know bygones spasticity now this is something i definitely get there are things you can take baclofen or tizanidine or santa flax if in america cost like a thousand pound tablet there anyway those didn’t work for me
But what did work for me was sativex and that can be got on the nhs and it’s been approved by nice and that literally changed my life luckily enough to go on a trial of it before it got approved by nice tight calves in the morning and that continues to be a very good benefit for me sativex it’s a cannabis based
Medicine and now i’ve got a prescription from sapphire clinics i’ve looked them up got a prescription from sapphire clinics i got something called floss basically flower bud weed and it does so much good for me for my sleep for my mood for my um fatigue levels and for my appetite and so on and said there’s just loads
Of knock-on effects from cannabis based therapies for me it might not be for you but it will not hurt to try and if it works do more if it don’t stop simples and there’s loss of coordination as well and thing with me when i get tired or if i do something too much even eating or talking even just now in this length of this
Video was now i can feel my voice starting to lose it i dropped some poppy seeds i’ve got a dish with a lid like a tupperware thing with poppy seeds in it you know this really tiny little not even rabbit poos they’re really small little things and i dropped it on the kitchen floor and oh the effort to
Pick that up was a nightmare i had to do in three sessions throughout the day and that was really difficult the more i did it the less i was able to do it and like i said with eating tina my girlfriend she makes a wonderful salad she chops everything up loads of flavors it’s a lovely thing except it just takes so long
For me to chew basically anything i do repeatedly has an effect on how i’m able to do that so muscle weakness in ms it does happen and there are things you can do to mitigate it you’ve got physical therapy and so forth but you’ve got to try what works you’ve got any kind of muscle weakness or any of those
Problems that you’ve experienced then speak to a physical therapist speak to your ms nurse your gp or anyone just speak to someone and say i’m having problems with this and you will be given therapies or medication or different i love you
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Muscle Weakness in Multiple Sclerosis – Examples and Solutions By multiple sclerosis Vlog
