I've had MS for 10 years and experience some pretty serious symptom,s but I never asked "why me" until I started having TN symptoms 2 years ago. This condition is unbelievable and the fear of the future can really weigh me down. MS in itself is a serious disease and to have TN on top of it is almost unbearable at times.
I'm normally an upbeat and positive person but am feeling really down lately. Just thought I'd vent to people who understand.
~ Vicki
It has been 1.5 yrs - seems like forever since a careless oral surgeon did this to me.
I will never forget that day - that somebody changed my fate - who would have thunk that a wisdom tooth would = brain surgery -
I'm better now - but the why me - had me for a long time -- then I started volunteering for Hospice because I couldn't work on the meds. I had a harder time with my well deserved pity parties then.
Some of us get PTSD symptoms - some never come to acceptance.
You are one of many here - and in the big picture we are a mere teeny percent of the population.
You are not alone in your feelings!
Have you joined the MS group on here?
Have you read the book Striking Back by Dr Ken Casey? Book full of how to make it live-able with tn.
Vicki, I know you are not a whiner, you are always so strong with what life has doled out to you. You are just being human in asking “Why me”? I would be surprised if most of us have not asked that same question at sometime. Someone once stopped me in my tracks when I asked the question by replying “why not”!! Although she had a point I have to say she had no serious pain or life threatening conditions herself. You are fully entitled to feel sorry for yourself. I feel sorry for you too. The trick is to try to keep the pity party for the bad times and not slip into permanent misery, that is hard to come out of. Much love sweetheart xx
Hello Vicki,
You're asking yourself "Why me?"
Maybe because it's a striking, wearing you down, makes you life in fear, kind of pain?
Allthough there are many people like us, in your own surroundings you can feel verry lownsome. No one sees or can imagine the pain.
So, make sure you soon find something that can give you some relief and at least hope: check the internet, check everything!
Follow your own instinct, listen to yourself.
I wish you all the best,
Ellis.
(I use Carbamazepine).
i know what you mean.
i am a very dreamy guy.. but also very realistic. i never asked why me on the TN subject.
it happened. statistically it could have happened to the guy next door.
why don't i ask "why me NOT having cancer" ? cause when you don't have it you don't think of it.
but what i DO ask... is "why me" in the term of "what happened in that specific DENTAL PROCEDURE" that made my life after it a non-living person.
i guess the philosophical questions will arise as time will pass.. maybe i was afraid to take my mind to that direction
you are SO right.
i liked your sentence so much
"who would have thunk that a wisdom tooth would = brain surgery"
Kc Dancer Kc said:
It has been 1.5 yrs - seems like forever since a careless oral surgeon did this to me.
I will never forget that day - that somebody changed my fate - who would have thunk that a wisdom tooth would = brain surgery -
I'm better now - but the why me - had me for a long time -- then I started volunteering for Hospice because I couldn't work on the meds. I had a harder time with my well deserved pity parties then.
Some of us get PTSD symptoms - some never come to acceptance.
You are one of many here - and in the big picture we are a mere teeny percent of the population.
You are not alone in your feelings!
Have you joined the MS group on here?
Have you read the book Striking Back by Dr Ken Casey? Book full of how to make it live-able with tn.