Last night I took my first full dose of rebif. The shot stung more than the others even though it is the same amount of liquid as the 22 dose (apparently they use some sort of filler for the lesser doses.) I laid down after taking it and felt a little dizzy, sort of like when I took my first quarter dose, (maybe it is in my head?) I woke up this morning feeling sort of out of it. Not really the flu-like symptoms (I took my ibuprofen) but more like sort of dizzy, almost like I was having a sinus attack or something. So I added a claratin to the cocktail and another couple of ibuprofen before I went on my run.
The run went really well this morning. I didn’t have my usual seizure at the start, it didn’t come until 1.5 miles into it. Then I only had two more, at 4 mi and 6 mi. Even my cool down was seizure free, although I did experience a couple of head rushes doing my side stretches (that has been normal since I have been doing them (since college when Danny Gonzalez told me I could lose my stomach if I just did side stretches. I didn’t lose the stomach, but the stretches are good. More on them later.) Overall by 7.8 mi run was pretty fas too. On my long straight stretch near Reed there was a woman running in front of me about a block ahead. In the mile or so that I followed her, I caught up to her and edged her out (she had crossed to the other side of the street, so I didn’t come up behind her or anything.)
The other nice thing about this morning is that I had a nice light rain, my favorite running weather. The canyon wasn’t too muddy, although the foot bridges across the marsh were a little slippery despite them being non-skid. Actually it is the plant matter that falls on the bridges that gets slippery. Anyway, a great run.
Since I too have MS, I am going to ask question about your expierences. So if I cross the line, just let me know.
Do you know whay you are having seizures at the start of your run? And is it something that may eventuslly go away?
Hey Red,
Keep asking me questions, I think with ms the more we share about our experiences the closer we will get to understand what is going on with ourselves. There is so much we don’t know and all of our experiences appear to be different. So I will let you know if you cross the line but I doubt you will!
I have no idea why I am having seizures at the beginning of my runs. I am hoping that I will be able to figure it out from watching my body and what is going on with it. My neurologist has no idea why either. She says my intermittent symptoms are not the normal pattern for those of us with ms.
As for them going away I sure hope they do. I am getting my blood tested this week to make sure that I have the proper levels of dilantin (the med I am taking for the seizure symptoms). So I may need some adjusting there or I may need to try something else. I am also hoping that as I get into better shape (I am nowhere near my marathon shape of a couple years ago) that they will come less and less. We’ll see.
Red, I forgot to add thanks for reading!