tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502217228070650248.post6883882672505712909..comments2023-10-30T06:36:03.851-07:00Comments on Living Life With Sarcasm, Kids, and MS: I Guess It's Been A While....Tracy Rambles On And Onhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16928404796336909746noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502217228070650248.post-13126739409028275692017-09-07T00:15:03.121-07:002017-09-07T00:15:03.121-07:00I found this blog really helpful for me I found this blog really helpful for me Whole House Humidifier Reviewhttp://www.besthousehumidifier.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502217228070650248.post-57707117084054199522009-11-06T05:39:41.116-08:002009-11-06T05:39:41.116-08:00Glad to have found you. There are not many blogs i...Glad to have found you. There are not many blogs in Catalan about MS and with yours I can practice my English. 47, 4 years after diagnosis. I also have a blog, but it's not in English.<br />Luck<br />albertAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502217228070650248.post-12714539469788756272009-08-03T07:43:10.884-07:002009-08-03T07:43:10.884-07:00Hey, fellow one-yearer! Love the blog. Please fee...Hey, fellow one-yearer! Love the blog. Please feel free to wander over to mine: http://dabble58.blogspot.com/<br />I'm so interested in your experiences with Effexor. I recently asked to have my dosage increased as I was feeling too blue to go on, but it is not helping me anymore and I refuse to take continually increasing dosages just to go blunt. I miss laughing for real, and crying is quite beyond me most of the time. I weaned myself off (or to 37.5) once and it was awful, but I am thinking it may come time to do it again. The external numbness I have with MS is bad enough without the internal stuff!Dabblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15738625142224210785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502217228070650248.post-11812858135204092742009-07-15T21:57:31.643-07:002009-07-15T21:57:31.643-07:00Thats funny Im on the same meds but they are suppo...Thats funny Im on the same meds but they are supposed to be for anixety. I take 75mg 3x a day. But have you ever noticed that depression, anixety and stress are all related, I mean I have stress which causes me to have anixety, then leads me into me feeling bad for snapping at one of the boys for something so small, then I get depressed about being a bad mom. Its like an ongoing circle. I don't know how you do it. I have tried many of times to wean myself but I can't do it. When I am not on them is when I am not me. My doctor told me that some people can just handle stuff while others can't. I can't handle anything. Its like my brain never shuts off. So then I take a magic sleeping pill to put me to sleep. I also have to take blood pressure meds, because my children have made it go up (during pregnancies) and it just won't come down. <br /><br />For you to do what you do makes you like a hero. I think thats what I love most about you, that even in the darkest hours you seem to find a little sense of humor.Chrystalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11727302879475116847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502217228070650248.post-43994531130802986242009-07-06T08:18:14.011-07:002009-07-06T08:18:14.011-07:00Tracy,
I'm happy you made this decision yourse...Tracy,<br />I'm happy you made this decision yourself, notified your doctor and stuck to it. I know how hard it is, since I've been there, done that, and got the T-shirt.<br /><br />Enjoy feeling again, even the crappy stuff!<br /><br />Peace,<br />KelleyKelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05908765567251293970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502217228070650248.post-53963721056772299012009-07-04T03:25:46.047-07:002009-07-04T03:25:46.047-07:00Oh Hun, I'm so glad the monkey's made you ...Oh Hun, I'm so glad the monkey's made you laugh and stick to your guns! I knew quitting the anti's would help you. I'm still doing happy dances that you are more in control of you now, even if other parts aren't going so good!Skyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00198283033410908267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502217228070650248.post-46616710032812912252009-07-03T04:43:00.143-07:002009-07-03T04:43:00.143-07:00Mike- I'm glad I could make you smile. I agree...Mike- I'm glad I could make you smile. I agree about the pick-me-up.<br />So, you're still kind of a newbie to this whole MS thing too? <br />I wish I had taken the time to think about the meds in the beginning but, honestly, I was terrified.<br />Having been a nurse before my sahm days, the only people I saw with MS were not "happy endings" if you will.<br />You know, someone told me that, with MS, we can't just take it a day at a time, we have to go minute by minute and sometimes by seconds. I couldn't agree more.<br />I'll be looking for you at the stop lights! <br /><br />To Everyone: Please, don't be offended by any of this, if you're on the anti's and they're helping then I support that 100%.<br />I'm not trying to discredit the meds, Lord knows I've had two times now in my life where I firmly believed they helped me survive.<br />We all know, hopefully, by now that each of us needs to do what's best.<br /><br /><br />Denver- I will say that in the beginning of all of this, they helped but after a while, even I was sick of walking around in a coma. I needed some of me back, you know?<br /><br />Priscilla-Thank you!<br /><br />Webster- you have no idea how right you are! I was getting so sick from going off of them and I was considering thowing in the towel. But all it took was that little conversation from my kids and I was back in the fight.Tracy Rambles On And Onhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16928404796336909746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502217228070650248.post-41673671466465373892009-07-02T22:11:13.245-07:002009-07-02T22:11:13.245-07:00Reading of your kids' reaction to your laughin...Reading of your kids' reaction to your laughing was priceless - and gave you exactly what you may have needed - a knowing that following your gut is always the right thing to do.<br /><br />I'm happy for you.Websterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13518858062969978457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502217228070650248.post-40096692153031108262009-07-02T20:20:16.229-07:002009-07-02T20:20:16.229-07:00It's great to hear that you were able to go of...It's great to hear that you were able to go off your meds!!Priscilla - The Wheelchair Mommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08224211748863436963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502217228070650248.post-91167203051370035612009-07-02T13:40:15.696-07:002009-07-02T13:40:15.696-07:00I think you made a good choice for you. I try an ...I think you made a good choice for you. I try an antidepressant but it didn't agree with me and now I feel better med-free anyway.Denver Refashionistahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17681030016057155728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502217228070650248.post-89020696202744849862009-07-02T10:11:50.629-07:002009-07-02T10:11:50.629-07:00Just so you know I really am smiling right now. A...Just so you know I really am smiling right now. A pick-me-up in a crazy world is always welcome. <br /><br />I was diagnosed 7 months ago. My doctor did talk to me about taking something for the eventual emotional stresses I would experience. I chose not to take them at all. <br /><br />I was on some stuff way back when my moms cancer spread to her brain and I did not like it. I always felt like I was in a dream and could hardly move.<br /><br />Be that as it may I do still stand in front of the fridge staring blankly at the shelves wondering.... more often than not it has nothing to do with food. I sometimes burst into tears to the strangest songs that show up on the radio. Now, try to imagine a 6'3" man in a pickup truck pulling up next to you at a stop light bawling like a baby. Scary vision I can assure you.<br /><br />I try to take it a day at a time and even then I try to break that day up into different parts. I have really good days and I have had a few really bad ones. In the end I still manage to drag my butt up and move forward. It's hard but I do it.<br /><br />I wish the best for you and hope that your family (and especially your husband) make you laugh at least once a day. I try to make myself laugh (and I don't count looking at myself naked) every chance I get and I feel better for it.<br /><br /> Best wishes!<br /> MikeMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14545509364991022869noreply@blogger.com