this may seem a wierd title but…does anyone else have this problem with their legs having a mind of there own?
for the last 2 weeks my legs decide 1 morning to have a chat the night before to play up and no matter what i want they wont do it (remind you of a child?) lol well for 2 weeks they decide to stay in achy slow mo mode with pain wen i push them too much, gradually they decide to be nice and thursday n friday im thinking ok they are going to behave now and i didnt need the aid of my crutch (my 3rd leg as i call it) for those couple of days, im now thinking im in the clear and now wont need them for a while…idiot i was, i think my legs had another midnite chat and decided i was a idiot and decided to misbehave again today, so of course my 3rd leg came out the cupboard to go shoppin with me today, does anyone else have the problem that there legs will play up without warning n make you think they will play nice then play up again? its happened before, but they play up for a few weeks then they behave for a while, not play up, be nice then play up again, geez by the end of this if i didnt mention legs ud be thinking im talking about children lol, this has taken about 20 mins to type as my cat (murphy) decided i no longer needed a drink, put his paw on my glass n promptly knocked it over then sat there looking at me.
Hahaha i could have written this about myself minus the cat. Spend most days/nights like this good job my husbands not sharing the bed otherwise we would both black & blue - got so many bruises it’s untrue. I fell off the dining room chair in September and wobbled is an understatement went crashing into the tv unit which is a big solid oak unit and bruised my leg so badly it still hasn’t gone. Can’t remember the last time I had a full nights sleep. And if I ever fall asleep on the recliner I wake up & can’t feel my legs from the knees down. And like you push my way through the pain, don’t have much choice really. Here’s hoping for a good nights sleep. xx
have you tried nytol? ive tried them wen needed, they help you relax enough so you can drop off to sleep and have a gud nights sleep with it aswell, my 6yr old niece asked me today why i needed a stick and i just said to her that sometimes my legs go flippy floppy and tired so i need a stick to help me walk so i dont fall down, i thought aaw how sweet. she had that look on her face like your not old so why do you need a stick lol lol, witch hazel can help with bruising aswell, it will bring the bruises out quicker so you dont have them for so long, lavender oil in a burner helps aswell to get rest and to relax, ive used that alot in the past, but cant use a oil burner anymore as my smart arse cat decides he loves sniffing candles when lit and looses half his whiskers, youd think he’d learn from the first time…ooohh no not this idiot cat lol lol, still hes wired up wrong in the head like me n i love him lots
You name it I’ve tried it I’m on first name terms with the pharmacy lol I spray my pillow with Goodnight pillow mist rub a balm on my wrists and temples (both from Avon) I take Gabapentin for the pain but it dosen’t have much affect tbh. Don’t you just love kids my youngest neice loves to sit on my knee when I’m on my scooter she says her legs get tired too! Lol x
lol aww thats really cute, im on gabapentin n naproxen, they dont do much either, i cant remember which one buit the neuro put me on one of them before i was diagnosed for the headaches, that never worked at all, so my dr added the other tablet to it and it worked for a lil bit, the next neuro appt he found out i was on both tablets n he ordered me to stop taking the new ones the dr put me on, he also ordered me to stop smoking as no one will ever want me as i stink and ill die alone, so me being me i got upset and cried, then after that i got angry n went home n said to mum im not having sum male ordering me around, so i told the dr, she said to stay on both tablets if they are working and i said that ill quit smoking in my own time lol lol, i wont stand for any male giving me orders coz i tell them where to shove it now, besides if i was to stop doing everythin men told me to do id be sat in the flat doin nothin n bein borin, so i do wat i want wen i want coz its my life not theres lol
I too keep getting told to stop smoking mainly by my kids but like you I’ll do it in my own time, I know it’s not good for you but neither are a lot of things including drinking which I do too much of too but then I look at my gran who lived until the age of 82 smoked from been 6 yr old and drank every night for years always a few largers followed by a double whiskey! My gp dosen’t condone it as she smoked for years but gave up after been in hospital with meningitis and just didn’t fancy them anymore. And I like you would just sit here lonely as I am. xx
i just see it now as its my life and no one has the right to tell me what to do with it, that makes me more stubborn to say a big F U to them lol, anyway i got my cat so im not alone n the council told me im not allowed another cat wen he dies…im thinkin stuff you, course im gettin another cat, it’ll b along time but i will lol, as you can tell i dont like ppl tellin me wat i can n cant do
i am now a full time wheelie, but even now I still have a battle with them. Some of my transfers are with the use of a patient turner (I call it Tina). I need my knees to lock, to stay upright. But they are cheeky little so and sos, as they can just collapse with no warning and then have a giggle at me.
It`s all a battle isnt it? Some we win, some they win. But keep fighting on, I do!
lol i love the way you guys see it wen ur legs misbehave, my cat (murphy) is helpin me with exercisin my legs, i get his treats n throw them up n down the 25ft corridor at the flat by the lift, then he decides to let me walk all the way up n down while he sits half way waitin 4 his treats to shoot by him, so i get my exercise n so does he lol
My legs have a mind of their own at times. Or rather, no mind of their own. The left one doesn’t track properly and even pretends it isn’t there at times.
The right one is now shorter due to contracting ligaments, so I wear weights on my ankle to stretch them and keep me upright and not walking like a weeble.
I have really bad arthritis in both legs, but the worst thing is that I can’t control them when I get stressed. They just seem to disappear from my brain and get ‘stuck’ and I need a push-start!
I was mocked by a very nasty man on another forum and I had really wobbly legs for most of the day afterwards. He doesn’t have MS. Odd isn’t it, how those without MS think that we react normally?
Now he’s here and I have to avoid him, as those wobbly legs return just at the sight of his initials. . I’d like a magic wand and give him wobbly legs.
my murphy always seems to know when im having a really bad day, he will follow me every where and stay on the settee with me while i sleep (half across my legs), on sad days he always does lil things that makes me laugh or he’ll come over to me n start purring n gives me cuddles, ive had him since he was 5 weeks old and as a cat knows he is spoilt rotten and has his own routine in the mornings, wake up, get fed, get treats, i iopen the window a lil for him so he can lounge out on the microwave having a nosey out the window, he tells me wen he wants to go out lol, i thought i was training him, but he had me fully trained after a week n its took me over a year to realise it lol lol, hes just like me, wired up wrong in the head, i dont know where id be without him especially now, he does so much to keep me going everyday
but then I look at my gran who lived until the age of 82 smoked from been 6 yr old and drank every night for years always a few largers followed by a double whiskey! My gp dosen’t condone it as she smoked for years but gave up after been in hospital with meningitis and just didn’t fancy them anymore. And I like you would just sit here lonely as I am. xx