Worried – weak leg and twitches

[Zaphoon]

Hyppo,

Do you have any idea how difficult it is to seriously resond to someone with your screen name on a medical related forum? Ever consider changing it?:-D

Just thought I'd throw that in...

Zaphoon

 

[awieleba]

hyppo,

I am sorry, I was not trying to be a downer. And I am not trying to talk about dying, I guess i was saying what I feel works for ME, since you asked about 'coping'. I agree with beth, denial works great for me also. I use it alot, but when I have a new symptom or feel scared, that is when I try to appreciate just being here in any condition and accept that other people have had worse things happen and I should be thankful for the wonderful 36 yrs that I have had thus far.

I thought your fears of als were related to the eventual outcome, that is why I posted about that.
If your fears are just handling the diagnosed process, then it could be a long ride. what I do is try to stay as busy as possible. I am sorry if I offened you.....

I also was just saying that when your afraid of something, you can ask what is the worst thing that could happen? That is what I was referring to. And going from there.

 

[Hyppo]

It's ok. I'm gonna try to find ways to cope. For now I think I have to get off the web, and this site too, for a little while. Googling certainly hasn't made things better for me.

Beth, I'm really bad at denial. But I will give it a go. I have spent a lot of googling hours trying to find other possible causes, but for me that's not very constructive either. Essentially it's the same thing. If I google ALS I look for things that point away from it, If I search for thyroid problems I look for things that would point towards it. Either way we're going to end up with a lot of information that we didn't look for and that increases our frustration. The web is really fond of ALS. It's every hypochondriacs biggest obsession –*therefore it gets a lot of hits – therefore it ends up at the top of the charts.

About the screen name, I get your point. I guess, in some wierd way I don't really want to be taken seriously. It's better to be a hypocondriac than fatally ill. Anxiety is a nice little thing to reach for when you have a symptom that freaks you out.

 

[brendapals]

hyppo,

Gosh, couldn't we just be talking about the zoo?

Really, shut down the internet, and either get busy living or get busy dying!

Remember, life is NOT practice, so just enjoy it-

Never give up,
Never let up,
Never lose faith,
brenda