Two New MS Symptoms

 

 

While enjoying my two week My Odd Sock corporate sabbatical, I discovered two new MS symptoms..or side effects (however you want to classify them).

 

During the course of my extensive research, I have become curious if you suffer with these two MS maladies as well?

Not yet recognized by the medical community, I simply refer to the new symptoms as…….

 

…”Hook Toe” and “Draggy Feet.”

 

 

 

Hook Toe

Pictured at left is an exaggerated example of “hook toe.”  (Hey would you expect anything less from this goofy website?)

 

 

 

Due to a lack of flexibility in an MSer’s feet and ankles, the toes become hooks in essence, snagging anything and everything.

 

 

 

Even getting out of bed can be a struggle when hook toe is tag-teamed with spasticity.  Let’s get ready to rumble with a no-holds battle with the sheets & blankets!

 

 

 

And don’t think taking a stroll through the laundry room is a walk in the park either.

With “hook toe,” your toes catch on more laundry than the Snuggle Bear.

My hook toes attract so many items of clothing, I have ring-around the ankle!

 

 

If you suffer from “hook toe”—be careful—as your risk of tripping & falling is increased ten little-piggy fold!

 

 

Draggy Feet

With “Draggy Feet,” walking is replaced with a foot dragging shuffle.  (I shuffle more than a Las Vegas blackjack dealer!)

You don’t step because it is difficult to lift your feet.  So one “slides” into each step mimicking a figure skater minus the ice!  Or, Pete Webber without a bowling ball!

 

 

 

 

Of course, with “draggy feet,” there are challenges with each step.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Land obstacles are often difficult to avoid.

You will agree once you “draggy feet” through a pile of doggie doo-doo!

 

 

While other more common MS symptoms are treatable, there are no known methods of treatment for “hook toe” and “draggy feet.”

So, as a doctor of your own MS domain, how do you chart your diagnosis for these two new conditions?

Give it to me straight, doc.  I can take it.