This is going to be one weird post. It all started about three weeks ago. I was sitting on my couch, watching TV. I was suddenly hit with a extremely distinct and highly unpleasant odour. That of a very slightly decomposed body. I will never forget the first time I experienced this smell. It was when I was in college for Funeral Services. We had to do a few weeks of experience at local funeral homes before and during the first year. Anyway, it was quite faint but there kind of in the background. I thoroughly searched around (and I’m a bit of a neat freak!) the room but I could kind of still smell it. Fortunately, it only lasted for a few minutes. Well, this same symptom has been happening progressively more often for the last three weeks. Today, it has been on and off for a total of at least five hours. Ugh!!! I was sitting in the bank today and it hit me quite strongly part way through the meeting. I looked this up online and it appears it is possible from multiple sclerosis. MS is such an odd disease! I never thought about symptoms involving smell since I’ve been diagnosed, until now!
I phoned my neurologist’s office today and they got me in for tomorrow morning. It will be interesting to hear of how many other MS patients of his have had this creepy and distasteful symptom!
Today’s symptoms: Well, the most yucky of symptoms is certainly this one affecting my sense of smell. My energy was actually decent today. My headache didn’t become bad until after 6:00, which was nice. Other than that, just the normal aches and pains, plus lots of nerve gobblety-goop going on today!
Lizzy McFly 