Planning The Unpredictable

I had my Neuropsychology test about two weeks ago. It lasted from 830am until about 330 with a lunch and potty break in there. It wasn’t too bad. I actually enjoyed the puzzles and pattern detection stuff. The parts I hated involved was related to word finding and the Stroop Effect. One of the word [...]

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GOOD AND STABLE!!!!
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO GO COPAXONE GO!

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I asked the Neuro this morning about surgery and it leading to relapses. He said that there have been some very small studies that suggest anesthesia involving the spinal increase relapse rate. He said always ask for non-spinal type anesthesia.
Good to know.

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Seriously, love him. He is so easy to talk to, open to ideas, funny and well, he’s not bad to look at either.
Anyway, next month is my one year anniversary which means it’s MRI time! You might want to sit down for this but…. they scheduled my MRI on a WEEKEND!!!!! [...]

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You might be wondering why I am showing you a blurry picture of an alien. Actually, it’s my uterus with an IUD (or as the ultrasound tech called it “the anti-baby”. You can see that weird tube thing in the middle top of the picture. Thats the IUD.
Because my life is [...]

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For the first time ever, I completely missed a dose. You see, I don’t travel well on short notice. I need to plan. I think if I had two weeks to plan I would be fine but I had 24 hours. I caused me to panic and freak out… and forget [...]

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I met with the NP this week for all my results and it was quite interesting. My total cholesterol was 159 which I thought was excellent considering I was in the 200ish range 5 years ago. She said she likes it a little higher because cholesterol protects the brain and immune system. [...]

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I am onto my third cold of the ‘flu and cold season’ which is about 2.5 colds more than a usual year. While my neuro said Copaxone has no effect on colds/viruses, I seriously doubt him.
Nothing exciting to report… I should have my test results from the Naturopath on Monday. [...]

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So I have been taking 10,000 IU a day of D3 for about 6 months now. The first three months my vitamin D level was at 40 even. With all the new reserach, we decided to try and get me on the higher end. We added an additional 50,000 IU a week [...]

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Let me see… first off, I am very western medicine focused. Since Seattle has a very large Natural Medicine School, we tended to get a lot of Bastyr graduates. I am very leary of their training. I am sure they are good but I went to one once and she said my [...]

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