Huge improvement!

Having been rescued from an absolutely frightening & horrible flare-up by the Beacon hospital, I got out two days ago. Slept virtually all of yesterday, waking up after my sleeping beauty episode I felt a lot better, and clearly my mobility and clarity of mind had improved. Then after a further good night’s sleep the

Discharge tomorrow

I am so much improved, have way more energy, and better mobility. The steroids, which were originally given to reduce airway inflammation, have been tapered from today. I do believe they have had a direct beneficial effect too on this bad MS exacerbation which took such control of me. Yesterday the Physiotherapist came to see

Admission to private hospital

Over the weekend felt I was losing ground, and totally losing the grip on being able to look after myself. Very little I could do for myself safely, and had lost the ability to safely drive as muscles, coordination, cognition, abdominal alertness had hit rock bottom. The exhaustion has been beyond belief. Trying to get

Bad Flare-up of MS

For past days I’ve been putting my sense of great lethargy and cognitive disability down to a possible side-effect of Baclofen, the muscle relaxant drug. However there’s been little improvement in relation to the above since discontinuing it, except maybe I can focus a tiny bit more. It’s starting to get very scary again. There’s

Infection causing flare-up

I woke up this morning with a bit of a fever and feeling overall weak and with a particularly bad tremor. I’m hot and sweaty, and have had a very mild cough but only in bed at night and which wakes me up from sleep. Time to bother my GP again, fortunately I have the