Today I had my one year Neurology appt. with Dr. Ellison. I like her a lot and feel like she is giving me good care, but I always feel hustled out. I always feel like I can talk to my doctors for longer and I know she has other patients. I did get a clean bill of health and she doesn’t want to see me again unless I see any new symptom for more than a couple of weeks. I think the ms is going as well as it can.
So I went in with the following questions:
- What is going on with the lower abdomen soreness – she thinks it may be rebif related, but wante me to see my GP. I’m guessing rebif.
- Foot numbness and ms hug on my feet – Dr. E said that’s a very common sideeffect and can happen in many places on the body like arms, chest torso
- I mentioned Pot relieving numbness – She said that goes to show you the power of medical marijuana, but didn’t offer to write me a “green card”.
- I asked about substitutes for Dialantin and she mentioned several but I only remember one – depicote – which for some reason I thought was an anti-depression drug
- rebif payment options – She mentioned several of the ones I found and offered to have one of the staff look into programs.
- Suppliments, DHEA, Creatine, ginko she glossed over all but approved of my vitamin regimen: multi-vit, vit c, vit d and calcium.
We didn’t get to talk about upcoming treatments which I wanted to do. But I have read about many of them. I think the next big drug will be the oral pill that is being tested.
It was a really nice sunny day today which made running even more of a priority. I went on the longer canyon run I have been doing for years and then mapped it Check it out. Being that this was the third in a row, I felt pretty pooped so I ran the 7+ miles slowly at a 9:38 mile pace.I was tired, but it was just too nice out to not run.
I am very interested about DHEA vs Running.
Would you share ur experience?
Thx
I have found DHEA to be a good thing when I am training. I don’t think you have to train particularly hard for it to have benefits. But I do feel stronger and more energized when I take it. I take 25mg a day, though as far as I understand it many people double that. One thing I do notice is that after 6 months or so it seems to lose its effectiveness (unless I increase the amount which I would rather not) so I go off of it for a 5-6 weeks. Then when I get back on it it seems to work better again. I do notice that I feel as if I am able to crank out my hard runs easier when I am on it and muscle development appears to be slightly increased, I particularly notice this in my chest and shoulders in response to weight training, but I imagine my legs are also getting some benefit form it as well. Another good thing about it is that it is relatively inexpensive, I get most of my supplements from http://www.puritan.com.
I’d love to hear about what you are finding as well.