Wow, it’s been a long time since I have wrote in here. Looks like the last time I was in this was around in December. I have a new member added to my group. It is always nice to have new faces to share the same stories and undestand how this baffling disease works.

I was watching TV the other morning because I could not sleep and watched an episode of Oprah (I am not a huge fan of Oprah) but she had Montel Williams on her show talking about MS. He made some very interesting comments that I had never thought of before. He mentioned that depression is the number one symptom with people who have MS. Interesting observation I thought.  This prompted me to do some investigating of my own.

I went into the website WebMD and the MS Society and both say the same thing. Depression is very common with people who have MS. Treatable by medication of course. Gee! do I want to put something else in my body, more medication. Interesting theory. I have not had Avonex injections for a while now almost one year and I noticed a huge difference in how I feel. Wonder if the medication has anything to do with it.

Common signs of depression are – lack of appetite, uncontrollable and unexplained crying jags, feelings of hopelessness and worthlessness – which that happens with me alot and irritable. I do get irritable with the littlest things sometimes. I hate to admit that because then other people will use that as an excuse and tell me that is why I am acting that way.

I am going to do more research on this as I think it is interesting. Will be sharing this with the group today hope to get some decent feedback to talk about it some more.