Myoclonic jerking & using my dog,Rags

[Buttons2]

Myoclonus was my first neuro symptom several years ago. It was very severe at first,my entire body would jump like a spring was wired inside me. Then it got better, I rarely had any jerks at all. Until last night that is!

No idea what brought this on except perhaps my stress levels are over the top right now (read my post under emotional support). Plus getting a real wakeup call about possibly going blind from my diabetes.

Last night I was just sitting outside enjoying the weather & watching the bunnies & birds eat the goodies I put out for them. Then wham! I started jerking very badly. I decided to just go to bed. I took a full 5mg of my muscle relaxer hoping it would help.

Got into bed & actually feared I might just end up on the floor,so I decided to use Rags to hold me in place. Of course he was probably thinking what's with this, mom hasn't let me on her bed in a long time, cause I'm such a swamp dog these days from jumping into the pond! He only whined a couple of nights after I banned him from my sleeping area. I just wanted to say that having his 100# warm body next to me + my cat on the other side was a comfort,I slept fine & when woke up Rags was back on his own bed. Maybe he'll become a therapy dog afterall.......

[joy]

hi buttons. i am so sorry to hear this. are you okay now? i know you must be stress a bit if this has not happened for a time. is there a chance that this will be just a one timer for another long stretch? sorry if you don't want to answer but i know it has to be making your anxiety and or stress levels rise.

thank goodness for those furry friends!! they are a comfort for sure. i'm going to read your other posts now. pm me if you'd like. otherwise i'll just check up on you here.

i start my drinking of that awful junk for upper and lower testing tomorrow. uugh. i shouldn't be out that long tommorrow though.

[Buttons2]

And of course, my wonderful,supportive cyber friends like you!

Joy, I have no way of ever knowing when the myoclonus will "hit" me. I credited taking B12 & cutting out the 5-6 diet sodas per day,as helping me to overcome this affliction.

I do have "triggers", sudden noise,car lights,even windshield wipers can set me off. It had been over a year since my last bad episode & that was brought on by a dog barking the entire 2 hrs. I had Rags at his very first training session! I was very upset the trainer was gonna allow this agressive dog back to class & I refused to go again. This is why Rags still isn't leash trained or knows how to retrieve any toy! I jumped the entire hour ride back home that night. (I gave up driving over 3 yrs ago).

One reason I got Rags was because I felt my health was improving. Well, I'm not sorry I adopted him, I'm just sorry I don't have the energy to wear him out playing & that whatever happened to him on the streets was so traumatic that he's terrified of leashes! And he hoards his toys,has buried many of them under the deck. I've tried every word I can think of to get him to bring a ball back & drop it.

Hey, maybe I'll win the lotto & get a trainer someday!

I warn you-my posts under emotional support might be alarming.

Hope your tests go fine, and truly hope you can enjoy the summer without alot of pain & stress in your life. Our weather here is hot one day & cold the next,very strange!

I've met alot of people on myoclonus forums,nobody has any answers. Everyone gets prescribed Klonopin it seems. I refused to take it. Why take a drug that's addictive everyday if you don't have symptoms everyday? Only God knows what is wrong with me, I doubt I will ever find the truth. I just keep plugging along & hope for a better day ahead.

I do know this:everything from the myoclonus to the memory loss & extreme fatique has happened since the spider bite on my foot! I have had alot of improvement, there was a time when I didn't know my age,my address or phone number, and couldn't even recall how to turn my computer on! I couldn't carry on a conversation,I messed up numbers big time & even managed to mess up my business taxes one year. My brain was really misfiring bigtime!

I could write a book about spider bites. I certainly know alot more than any doctor I've been to. Couple of years ago the bite decided to become a lesion (after 8+yrs!!), one foot doc said it was a rare MALIGNANT tumor,another foot doc said he had no idea,both wanted immediate biopsies (which I refused). It's like this little beastie has taken over my mind & body & will be with me forever. I killed the spider so no question what bit me. And of course I was told there are no harmful spiders in WA state,we put up roadblocks for spiders & ticks with Lyme I guess. I had not gone to any doctor's in over 7 yrs when I was bitten,I had the misfortune of getting a doc that was married to a spider expert so she brushed off my concerns first thing (she has died recently so I'll never get to wring her neck for being so closed minded).:rolleyes:

Take care,Buttons

[joy]

hi buttons

i just sent some one an e-mail and i hope it was you, lol. i SAID i was not getting on the boards because i would not sleep. well, guess i'm not going to sleep so decided to catch up.

i will read what you've said. i started yesm no day before yesterday now to read empotional forum so i know it has to do with your son and his health. but i did not get to read far.

don't worry about me i have had a lot happen in my life and a lot is still going on. but i seem to want to always crawl back up. in big part because of forum friends, yeah for us. we have lovely friends, we just live far apart. but only in miles.

spiders, aargh i hate em too. and we are due a house bombing as i just know i saw a brown recluse and hubbhy did not go fast enough to kill it. i am way to slow now that my feet are dead and hands are numb. but i still try. i have seem what they can do. my used to be sweet next door neighbor had a bite that made such a big hole and lasted forever. and she said that was her second bite!! it was awful looking. she was the sweetest thing and i mourned forever when she died.

her and my mother were best friends and it was a taste of what was to come and i knew it. she lived into her 90's though. and learned how to drive a car late in life. i mean really late. her husband got to be such a grouch and wanted her home fast. you know the type. i secretly hoped he'd pass on before she did, and he did. now isn't that an awful thing to admit? and here i'd call myself a good person. i have such a lovely quote at the end of my messages and all. but you'd just have to know how some old men can get to know why i wanted this sweet woman to get to live life a bit without having to take orders forever.

boy here in pet therapy we dispense all kinds of things, lol, and i don't care.

i'll just say she kept the birdies fed and also the wild turkeys -yes she did. and guess what i wanted when the great grand children were cleaning out her house? i asked for the old wood bird feeder that was right next to her kitchen window. and i got it! it had a hole in top but those birds would go right up next to that window pane and she'd feed them and have all kinds of company. take care and sorry i was away but i had quite an ordeal with that procedure and then slept blissfully in recliner for a very long time when got home. wish i had been in bed but hey, sleep is sleep!

[Buttons2]

Hi Joy, yes I need my sleep also. I usually end up taking a Flexeril to help me sleep,seems like every evening my back decides to give me grief,I've lived with this most of my life so it's just how things are.

I'm very grateful that Rags sleeps good,he doesn't even snore! But then he's still a youngster.....

Bet it's a toss up with having granddaughter there,love her to pieces but trying to hold off the pain. I can't even keep up with a dog so very grateful I don't have grandchildren right now!

Did this new doc find anything out through the test? I think you said you were seeing an internist?

Are you taking the B12 to help with the numbness? I've noticed my entire arm going numb recently,I bought some more B12 but I keep forgetting to take it! I have no idea why this is happening now-just one more in a long list of strange symptoms I suppose. Since I'm diabetic I'm thinking I'm getting neuropathy now to add to the mix.

Hey, let's just hope our doggies stay healthy! Rags was so excited last night playing with my son-he ran right into a bench & it caught him under his rib. The big clutz! Day before he was running away from some medication I was putting on his underside & he slipped on the hardwood floors & let out a yelp. I'm always concerned he will break one of his long legs!

Hope you get some sleep today! And send some of that heat this way,it's raining here right now but the farmer's really need it for the fields just planted & I need it for my trees & shrubs.

Take care,Buttons

[joy]

we got our rain yesterday while i was out, lol. so glad it was not a day that granddaughter was here. that internist has now dismissed me. so moving right along, i'll have to find a new one. i hope the next one will be better. i am having a lot of trouble with my hearing, the meniere's shrill sound and men's low tones plus if you add foreign, well i don't hear all that is said.

i hope you are better. i enjoyed picturing rags at play. hope you are feeling better. i have dog fuzz under furniture i need to clean up but my strength is waning, lol.