@bumble81
Hello, I am Bright Wings. I Accepted my diagnosis of MS in 1985. Note the word accepted...I was 35 before accepting what I had been told by many doctors before this last appointment.
I live very successfully with my MS. This is a dis-ease that does not go away. ACCEPTANCE of that is so important to the rest of your life.
So how do I live successfully with my MS? I RESPECT the fact I have it and I am going to have some good days and some more challenging days. That's the way it is.
I am PROACTIVE in protecting myself from being too hot or getting too cold, cuz it will come to mess me up for sure and steal my life as I know it and want it.
I GUARD my energy. Each of us has different ways the MS affects us. None of us will share the same story of our progression of symptoms. I often can not regenerate my energy after being too hot or cold or after stressful situations. It sucks when I run out of energy, cuz I know I don't get to play anymore for a while. Grin....
ATTITUDE is everything. I actively sought ways to learn to relax and let worries go...cuz worry sucks energy!!! Find the things that make you happy. Do them!!!!! When I am feeling sorry for myself, I am sucking my energy right out of me. Then my dis-ease takes over. I know I am making living with MS sound easy, it can be or not....its how you choose to live your life. Learning all these things has not been easy. It took many years to put this all together.
SLEEP is imperative to living a successful life with MS. When I don't get enough rest, my symptoms will get worse. I can not get back my energy as fast as when I am rested. Guarenteed.....
I REFUSE to allow this dis-ease to rule my life. So I live along side my MS. It is my constant companion. When I am EVER-OBSERVANT for conditions that are not beneficial for my MS, I don't go there...why, cuz then the MS takes over and I lose days weeks, months or years to the dis-ease. It's my choice. I would rather live my life with me being in control rather than my
dis-ease.
Ok, so that is how to live successfully with MS in a nut shell. By following the words in capitals, I get to be in charge of my life rather than this dis-ease taking control.
I use CBD to lessen the symptoms when they are present which is everyday. The cheapest and best brand I have found is Lazarus Naturals. On my worse days I use 1/2 tsp 3 x daily. The kind I use is CBD in coconut oil, 1200 mg of CBD. If you contact the company and send in a doctors note, now they have increased the discount to 60% over buying it at a store.
I will use CBD until the day I die! It changed my life that much. All my aches and pains went away. I receive no compensation from the company.
I write dis-ease each time because when I am living along side my MS, so many days I forget I have it.
I hope you will print this out and read it everyday.
My best to you, and who ever comes after this and reads it.
Now having written all that, I must also share the polar vortex got me. I am headed into the worse relapse in many many years. So I am being proactive to get myself into a better home that will be easier for me to control the temperature in the house cuz after an el Nino winter comes an incredibly hot summer. I almost died of cold inside my newly rented house a few weeks ago. So I am taking ACTION to get myself into a different home that is more MS friendly.
@lisalucier thanks for bringing me in here. I need to be here now.
BRIGHT WINGS not flying so high right now