In Which I Run Out of Steam

I want to do my numbers every day, but it is getting harder and harder. I have to think, and that is hard. Remembering is hard. Everything is hard. But it is important to track my symptoms.

I realized that although gabapentin seems to be helping with my burning feeling, I was wrong about it helping with spasticity and fatigue. Coincidentally they were better early this week, I guess. The normal ups and downs of MS.

Sensory:

-Pins and needles: 2, back/side of left leg, sciatic nerve, also any area that experiences even mild compression--currently my left foot. I realized that I said it was in my right leg yesterday, but that was my "other right."

-Tingles: 2, in arms, too tired to think back on where

-Paresthesias (burning): 2, left foot

-Paresthesias (other): 1, crawly feeling along my left sciatic nerve, along with the pins and needles

-Numbness: 2, in my legs I think. Or was that yesterday?

-Vision: 1, a few floaters

-Nerve pain: 2, left leg (again, oops, I meant left before)

Motor:

-Gait: 4, between balance and spasticity, it's rough. And today I went to the mall with a friend. I started off pretty well, and I got worse and worse, slower and slower as we walked to a store halfway across the mall.

-Sore muscles: 6, quads, calves, hamstrings (I learned that word while trying to figure out which muscles are spastic)

-Fine motor: 2

-Weak muscles: 5, my laptop has somehow doubled in weight

-Spasticity: 6, rectus femoris?, both heads of the gastrocnemius (thank you, google)

Cognitive:

-Language processing: 2

-Memory: 4

-Attention: 1

-Confusion: 5, just not knowing what to do. I'm trying to remember if it was today or yesterday that I stared at the microwave and just saw numbers. I did not know what to do with them for a few seconds.

-Impulsivity: 0

General:

-Fatigue: 6 (OK until 1:30, hit a wall and went downhill swiftly--terrible now)

-Balance: 4

-Sleep: 5, got almost 8 hours but somehow not enough

-Bladder: 3

-Anxiety: 0, OK even at the shrink