Multiple Sclerosis and Fever Make Old MS Symptoms New Again

I woke last Wednesday morning with a morning plateful of things that had to get done.  Caryn needed to get to a volunteering gig, our hired car needed to be returned and that meant a 2-leg bus ride back to our town and houseguests were expected the next afternoon. I also woke with flu. You just know; don’t you?  I think even our dog, Sadie, knew as she was on the bed with her chin on my leg in comfort. I was slow to rise – but that’s not anything new to someone with multiple sclerosis.  As I went about my morning inventory, however, things weren’t fitting into place. As Caryn hustled around to ready herself, I shuffled about with an increasing knowledge that there would soon be intimate recollection of our prior evening’s take-away.  I’ll spare the details save to say that my abdominal muscles are still feeling sore from the workout. I don’t get ill often anymore, it seems.  So I guess I kind of forgot what a fever can do to my MS.  The increase in body temperature brings back all of MS’s greatest hits in pseudo exacerbation form.  As an aside, however, I did note that my deepened left-side numbness did not stop me from feeling the all-over-body-aches which accompanied my bout; even on that side. I’m feeling better and thank Rose and you, our community, for excusing me for a couple of blog posts so I could just rest and try to get past it.  A few days after my fever broke, the MS symptoms started to fall back to around my baseline.  It wasn’t a re...
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