tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21421591.post6938827414073945290..comments2023-10-11T04:24:16.671-04:00Comments on Multiple Sclerosis Blog: msb-0145 My Body Is Changing, In Weird WaysCharles-A. Rovirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16533985064280992874noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21421591.post-62844378401698646862007-05-23T14:44:00.000-04:002007-05-23T14:44:00.000-04:00Hello "anonmous"I'd hie my butt to the doctor.I do...Hello "anonmous"<BR/><BR/>I'd hie my butt to the doctor.<BR/><BR/>I don't pretend that I'm a doctor and neither should you. <BR/><BR/>Leave the diagnostic to the diagnosticians.Charles-A. Rovirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16533985064280992874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21421591.post-3591836953670287902007-05-23T02:01:00.000-04:002007-05-23T02:01:00.000-04:00I feel this way all the time, but how do I know it...I feel this way all the time, but how do I know it's MS? my hand and arm muscles twitch sometimes when I don't want them to. a lot. what is wrong with me, and is it MS?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21421591.post-86752487269216755162007-05-08T09:15:00.000-04:002007-05-08T09:15:00.000-04:00Well, it would certainly keep things interesting.A...Well, it would certainly keep things interesting.<BR/><BR/>And you'd have some very good company.Charles-A. Rovirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16533985064280992874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21421591.post-53488362601751628622007-05-07T14:23:00.000-04:002007-05-07T14:23:00.000-04:00I haven't had any sensory confusion like you descr...I haven't had any sensory confusion like you described but it might keep things interesting if I did. I can't imagine being able to smell a color or see a sound.Miss Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11731458343222525114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21421591.post-20657416233770319662007-05-06T22:21:00.000-04:002007-05-06T22:21:00.000-04:00The corpus callosum is the area of the brain which...The corpus callosum is the area of the brain which joins both hemispheres of our brain.<BR/><BR/>It is the major pathway for us to communicate internally from the left (more rational) side with the right (more artistic) side.<BR/><BR/>That must give you some really screwy sensations.<BR/><BR/>While I have been affected bi-laterally (both sides are effed-up equally) this strange symmetry has left me with an excellent sense of balance, just an inability to properly work with it myself.<BR/><BR/>If I fall over (an extremely rare occurrence,) its because I was not able to react in time to something that was happening to me. Its never been because I didn't know "<B><I>which way was up</I></B>" type of thing.<BR/><BR/>What about sensory confusion, (synesthesia,) like taste and smell or sight getting crossed so that you smell a color or see a sound?<BR/><BR/>That affects 1 in 2,000 people to some degree or other.Charles-A. Rovirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16533985064280992874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21421591.post-17581183283945844842007-05-06T16:14:00.000-04:002007-05-06T16:14:00.000-04:00The corpus callosum seems to be the area of the br...The corpus callosum seems to be the area of the brain that is responsible for most of our cognitive difficulties and, of course, my latest MRI had my new lesion there. Surprise, surprise!Miss Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11731458343222525114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21421591.post-15499298303603064672007-05-06T15:22:00.000-04:002007-05-06T15:22:00.000-04:00You refer to them in more, uh, polite terms than I...You refer to them in more, uh, polite terms than I do :-)<BR/><BR/>But we're talking about essentially the same thing: the rate of flow from concept (deep contextual dependency) to the clear expression of that concept (which is difficult since you have no way of knowing the kinds of deep contextual associations may be resident in the mind of the intended recipient.)<BR/><BR/>Sort of like linguistic drift which enables us to create neologism.<BR/><BR/>But, no ... I suspect that what you're experiencing is related more to the difference between your own deep contextual dependency and the capacity to express it.<BR/><BR/>I have been lucky (an odd choice of words I must admit,) in that I seem to have all the MS lesions deep inside my brain while leaving the cortical folds, where our thought processes occur, relatively intact.<BR/><BR/>Instead my medulla-oblongata was described, by my first neurologists, as <B><I>"fried"</I></B> and my MRIs have shown the lesions to be <B><I>deep</I></B> in my brain.Charles-A. Rovirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16533985064280992874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21421591.post-23363886644002729042007-05-06T14:10:00.000-04:002007-05-06T14:10:00.000-04:00I refer to my cognitive deficiencies as "brain cra...I refer to my cognitive deficiencies as "brain cramps". They seem to mostly come when I'm trying to describe something, like a story. It takes effort to get the facts in the right order sometimes. I used to be able to have a conversation and the words would just come, but I really need to concentrate and think as I speak. It's so frustrating.Miss Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11731458343222525114noreply@blogger.com