Physical therapy and leg spasms

[Guest guest]

I would appreciate feedback from anyone who's been in physical

therapy. I know there's been discussion that only LDN should be the

topic, but I am on LDN and I believe this is all related.

I began LDN in December and was doing pretty well. I began doing

two minutes on a stationery bike in February and by the end of March

was up to 20 minutes. My legs felt a lot stronger. Then I began

physical therapy to work on my atrophied leg muscles; before doing

so I ran it by Dr. Bihari who thought it was a great idea.

I have a terrific physical therapist. Her name is Carolyn Mazur and

she has a place in the West Village called Fusion (for you

Manhattanites). She does electrical stimulation and ultrasound, in

addition to stretching my legs. I stopped doing the stationery

bike, because the combination of PT--the waking up of muscles--and

the bike caused me to have leg spasms, so I haven't been on the bike

in a couple of month. As I've written previously, I went to my

homeopath, who gave me a very potent remedy which turned out to be a

disaster--much too much for my body. I relived all my prior symptoms

and was in a lot of pain. Now that's better and last week I was

able to resume my PT exercises, but I feel like I've lost over a

month because I've had to start over in physical therapy. It's

depressing.

This morning in bed I did my leg stretches--very simple, lifting my

knees to my chest 30 times--and proceeded to have a leg spasm a few

minutes after getting out of bed. Actually, I STARTED to have one,

but took the stance Carolyn showed me and immediately applied

liniment. So the good news is that I stopped it.

So after this lengthy message, here are my questions:

o Does anyone have an idea why a leg spasm would return at this

point? They really upset me, because I feel so out of control.

o Has anyone had a positive experience with physical therapy?

o Has anyone else found PT to temporarily feel like a setback? I

can't help but wonder if I'd be feeling better without it, since

I was I was stronger and walking better before starting.

o My PT suggested on the phone this morning that sometimes with

MS, legs will spasm again at the end of a cycle. Is this

familiar at all or is she simply trying to make me feel better?

o Also, has anyone had this experience with LDN--reliving leg

spasms before the LDN kicked in 110%?

o Regarding LDN, the greatest symptom improvement I've had so far

is diminished bladder urgency. I can actually go to bed at

night and not have to get up five times in 15 minutes... (Though

perhaps it's the homeopathic remedy too--I don't know of

course.) The other is deeper sleep.

o I've been on LDN now for almost five months. How do you KNOW

when it's really working without having dramatic experiences?

o And finally, I'm curious as to how long it's taken people to

accept the reality of having MS. Last Fall, I thought I had

sciatica, my internist thought I had sciatica, then I had leg

spasms and tremendous hypersensitivity, and boom! MS.

Thank you for " listening. " Though I don't respond to everything I

read, I am very moved by your stories.