No news is good news...

Honestly MS has taken a backseat in my life these past few months and for that I am grateful. I actually had my 1 yr since being diagnosed in August and in October I decided to discontinue my treatment. You see when I visited the doctors at Mayo they said I may not even need treatment because my MS appeared to be so mild. So I gave it a lot of thought and decided to test the waters for about a year with no treatment at all. Ironically within a few days of stopping treatment, I felt a regular numbness in my lower back and left arm. I gave it a few weeks and it was definitely sporatic, not painful at all really, just different. I called the doctor's office and they said not to worry so you know what, I didn't. And shortly after the numbness subsided. Now don't misunderstand, most days I still have numbness in some form or another. Today at work, my calf and foot went numb and I nearly fell over leaving my office... whoops! No wonder people with MS often appear to be drunk.

There have been some great strides in MS therapy lately too with the FDA approval of an oral drug vs. what is the only option on the market today - shots! I am interested in the new therapy and will talk to my doctor about it when I check in with him in October 2011 but right now I am focusing on trying to maintain a calm in my life. I find that stress definitely affects my MS. Too bad stress is a bit of a challenge to control for most, including myself.

I still have a bizarre puking habit. Not sure what the cause is... I thought it was related to a lack of rest but after getting tons of it last week and still having two pukey episode, I am once again perplexed. Part of me wonders if it has something to do with bread? Wondering why I think this? Well I recalled the last three pukey episodes and I had eaten a good portion of bread either in a pizza or pasta form at dinner and sure enough, up it came. But here's the perplexing part, it isn't consistent. If I was intolerant to something, wouldn't it be all the time? Who knows... for now, I am lightening the bread load to see if that helps.