MS muscle cramps

[Virginia]

You're not a bad patient Sally. It is just hard to do anything when you are pretty much confined to a bed. You are dealing with inactivity, illness, boredom and a host of other things.

[agate]

Sally, the solution might be the lambs wool socks. I wonder if they have to be lambs wool? That stuff is hot in summer.

I always wear socks to bed to keep my feet from getting cold but they're not lambs wool.

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[Cat Dancer]

I can't emphasize enough how important it is to avoid pressure sores (bed sores are pressure sores. Bed sores is the old name, comes from the fact that anyone confined to bed is prone to them on areas that have constant contact with a hard surface.) They can occur in people like me who sit all the time in a wheelchair. They are most often on thWhee butt, the heels, and on elbows, if you don't move your arms around. When a patient is comatose, they are supposed to be turned every two hours, just to relieve the pressure on those areas that contact the bed regularly.

They are devilishly hard to treat. You all know my saga...3 years, still not healed, kept getting better, then dramatically worse, then better again, despite my using around 9 different treatments...none of which worked in the end. Only major surgery healed mine.

So if you have ANY sorts of sores on your heels, or your butt, or shoulders, or back of your head...all pressure points...get them checked NOW, before they worsen. And have someone check for you in those areas you can't easily see. Early treatment, before they fully break the skin, is the only thing that is successful.