Whether you have RRMS, SPMS or PPMS (I suffer from PPMS), what tasks do you find more difficult than before?
I’ll start with changing the bedding
Handwriting. Buttons!
Same as Alison100. Those little buttons on the collars of Men’s shirts are a real ‘challenge’! More generally, just about everything is a little bit harder to do.
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Just out of interest, how has your handwriting changed? Without a definite effort , mine seems to be getting smaller and smaller
Definitely changing bedding, have reallocated that to other half!
Holding phone in one hand to type, it causes too much wobbling - have to lay it down, hold it steady with one hand and type with other.
I lost a lot of sensation, fine motor control and proprioception in both hands early on in a bad relapse. It partly healed but left a lot of permanent damage, particularly in my ring fingers and little fingers. Basically I cannot easily deploy a pen of pencil - I do not have enough control to guide it smoothly or accurately.
Oh - and shaving! I have an electric shaver and a bladed , razor thing. Probably very foolish of me but I’m challenging myself to keep using the razor - takes me a while and lots of caution but haven’t sliced myself- (yet !)
Hi, handwriting for me too, holding a book, I’ve had a kindle for some years, a book’s too heavy now, even balance the kindle on a cushion, holding a hairdryer, too heavy, my hubby dries my hair and use adapted cutlery as normal is difficult to hold and various other things.
Jean x
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Oh gosh definitely handwriting and typing, I type, and what I think I type and what’s on the screen are two different things. Fine motor skills for sure you should have seen the utter embarrassment I had earlier trying to help my son put on a bracelet! Cooking, food prep are a no no, to many cuts and burns to risk it now. Picking things off of the floor, I chase it round for a week before I get it 
it’s all stuff you take for granted until your in a clothes shop wishing for popper fastenings 
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I’m in the same category as you all, things once taken for granted are a massive task now.
I am still trying to focus on what i can still do rather than what I
sorry shrek fingers here. pressed the send by mistake.
I hope you are all doing as good as.
Have a lovely Easter.
Much love
Maryx
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Bra fastenings (don’t even get me started on sports style bras), buttons, zip-pullers (especially the dinky ones on women’s clothing!), shoe laces.
My hand writing has pretty much gone to pot, to write anything legible takes ages of concentration.
Carrying a tray is a no-go; looking for a decent one-handed carrying tray.
No more hair drying - brained myself with the hair dryer last time I tried. People are starting to get used to my naturally curly hair now I let it dry out by itself.
All of them. The trick is in finding alternative ways of doing things, which I strongly suspect is something we are all rather good at.
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