tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750120863647373520.post5252101494094770309..comments2023-08-08T11:48:10.725+01:00Comments on swisslet: to the left, to the left...swisslethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708248700851998044noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750120863647373520.post-16492727752184559942016-07-08T17:32:40.783+01:002016-07-08T17:32:40.783+01:00amazing tips from Honeysuckle! i will be trying th...amazing tips from Honeysuckle! i will be trying those, as i too have what i call DISCO LEG, especially if i'm sitting with my feet on a coffee table (surely there're more hygienic places to put my feet?)<br /><br />it sounds like i got a similar device from orthotics - it worked for me too, but now i need to get a new version as the elasticy bit has lost it's elastic-yness.<br /><br />one more thing: Robert Lindsay is my mum's cousin. most snarky people say that people from Ilkeston are all related in some way but i swear this is a stone cold FACT.stevedominohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08598042606017502408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750120863647373520.post-69323761134895814982016-07-08T12:40:30.848+01:002016-07-08T12:40:30.848+01:00Sounds like involuntary clonus. Not sure that you ...Sounds like involuntary clonus. Not sure that you can do much about this, but would check with your neurologist or MS nurse. The weakness sounds like, well…weakness due to MS. Join the club for the Chosen Many.<br /><br />After 'battling’ (ha!), ok dragging my right foot around, even after six sessions of intensive (45 minutes) one to one physio for 45 minutes (thank you NHS), I finally agreed that a significant amount of fatigue was due to the recalcitrant leg. Speed up, damn you. So FES was tried but was so painful, that was a no-no plus the on-off fiddliness would soon have grated.<br /><br />Thought would be left to my own devices, when received an appointment for Orthotics. The scarily efficient woman there gave me the ugliest contraption and told me how useful it would be. I was overwhelmed by the strap-velco-clip-snap stuff. Plus its bulkiness. But, three things changed:<br />1. Goodbye skirts and hello wide jeans.<br />2. Hello lace-ups. <br />OK I enjoyed 1 and 2; shopping for a reason! Especially as lace-ups are on trend. What a stupid phrase. Anyway….<br />3. I got a Masters in Engineering in a week. <br />4. 'Tis is hard to admit: the ugly foot brace/foot-up whatever, works. Magical. Walking better, still not normal but much steadier and no falls. And fatigue so much less. Result.<br /><br />This may not be your own trajectory, of course. But should it be similar, it ain't the worst thing. If you're running marathons we're not in the same class. I lope if a car's coming. No more jaywalking: another gift from the MS treasure trove.<br /><br />Night cramps: these remedies sound crazy but they work for me.<br />a. Pinch upper lip with fingers, twist if you want. hard. Very hard indeed.<br />b. Put two wine corks under your pillow. Goodbye cramp with a few minutes. Seriously. <br />I have corks - wine colour unimportant- next to bed. Don't want to tempt providence!<br /><br />8 July 2016 at 12:18<br /><br /><br />I<br />honeysucklehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15653211159877094242noreply@blogger.com