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.