Every so often everyone has one of those days where they just don’t feel well. The start of a cold? The flu? Just working too hard on too little sleep?
We all know what that feels like, but when someone with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) says that they are not feeling well, there is a pretty good chance that they mean something completely different, and more often than not, people just don’t get it. They don’t get how me not feeling well with MS is not the same as what they think “not feeling well” means.
On one hand, yes, people with MS still get sick and the exhaustion of life still gets us too, but even just those mundane ailments can knock us down for the count as they tend to hit us with a little more force, causing a simple cold to be a little more exciting than we would like.
On the other hand, “I don’t feel well” could have absolutely nothing to do with the things you might associate with “someone not feeling well” because there are obviously things that an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system can cause a person to feel that someone who is otherwise healthy may never experience in their life. So let me try to explain to you what I mean when I say, “I don’t feel well”.
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