30 Days of MSA Awareness. 13. For me my personal MSA (and they are each very individual illnesses) is fraught with pain. Much of it comes from muscle spasms. You might think of charely horse type spasm but youd be horrified to find out where you can get spasms, everywhere from my jaw to - here it comes - my anus, I never knew it was possible to have spasms in my gut, my oesophagus, my tongue, fingers, scalp. Some spasms last a few seconds others can just drag on. I wonder sometimes if my heart attack in 1992 was the result of a heart muscle spasm? I noticed somewhere in the MSA literature I found on the internet that maybe using TENS could be useful. So I asked my doctor because I thought the added benefit would be that it would help me sty in shape even though I am mostly in a recliner. He chuckled, then shot me a disbelieving glance, then he said ? Your brain makes you tense up and then leaves you in spasm for as long as it takes to finally let go, the tens just makes your muscle contract, it is assumed a healthy brain will naturally relax, but with your brain, who knows. I hadnt thought of that, and am now wondering who out there thought it was a good idea?. I know that while doing my Charles Atlas adapted exercises in my recliner I will be doing fine and then one muscle takes an offence and I am in agony for hours. Just lately , at about 5 pm my feet, calves and knees have rotating spasms, my legs and feet are contorted, and they do not care whether I am upright, walking or lying down. All this despite the OxyCodone I am on for the severe headache and neck pain. The GabaPentin I take for peripheral nerve pain does not help, it helps for the nerve pain but not the spasms. downside to Botox is that relaxed muscles do not hold you together very well, so for now it is put up and shut up. As my son reminds me, pain tells you you are still alive and that is good right? - Yeah, alive is good.. -- More: https://facebook/notes/aletta-mes/30-days-of-msa-awareness/10152235479847179
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:07:53 +0000
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