Hi there, sorry I’ve been a bit quiet recently. I’m going to be completely honest and say I’ve had nothing really to write about. Life has been good. I’ve been on the go celebrating Christmas and then turning 25- ahh I’m getting old! I’ve also been pretty fit and healthy so far this year, well until the common cold hit me last week...
I hate the cold, it defeats me. I’m an active person but when I’ve got a cold, I’m constantly tired, I feel sorry for myself and complain a lot (which I hate doing), and all I want to do is have a bath and sleep. That is how I felt all last week. I didn’t even step foot in the gym and I made use of my comfiest jumpers looking like a top tramp at work. The only thing that got me through the longest five days of the year so far was Lemsip and the thought of birthday cake at the end of the week.
I hate the cold, it defeats me. I’m an active person but when I’ve got a cold, I’m constantly tired, I feel sorry for myself and complain a lot (which I hate doing), and all I want to do is have a bath and sleep. That is how I felt all last week. I didn’t even step foot in the gym and I made use of my comfiest jumpers looking like a top tramp at work. The only thing that got me through the longest five days of the year so far was Lemsip and the thought of birthday cake at the end of the week.
Not sure if anyone else who has MS feels the same way but when I get a cold I don’t just think it’s a cold. I feel like I’m always more deflated than ‘a normal person’ and then I panic ‘will I get a chest infection, kidney infection or anything relating to my shit immune system?!’ I always feel like I’m on edge because it could be a relapse.
Mrs precautious AKA my mam always makes me go to the doctors to get checked just in case but last week they said I was fine and would get over my cold quite quickly for ‘a healthy girl’ - I don’t think he read my notes properly haha!
But back to my point, I always feel like whenever I get ill, whether it’s the cold, or muscular pain, is it MS related? Even being tired - probably the most confusing of them all because so many people who have MS suffer from fatigue and it’s one of the most common symptoms of MS. Sometimes I think am I just tired and do I just need an early night? Or is it the dreaded fatigue... I feel like I’m just being dramatic if I say I’m fatigued.
MS is so complex and different in every person; some people might get one symptom and another will never get it in their life. That’s the unpredictability we’ve got to live with.
I’m starting to learn that if it bothers me in my day to day life then it’s worth mentioning to my nurse but if it’s just a random pain which goes away I will just forget about it.
Hopefully I’ll avoid being ill in the next couple of months before I go into hospital for my next treatment in May!
