litchen scleroses

Hello Mary I have just read your sad message. Late 50's is in fact the new late 40's When life starts anew.... We are all so much younger in thought and outlook than our parents at the same age. So "Old" at 50? nah!!! If you can go out and get yourself fit or fitter....Gym, walking groups or solitary stuff.I cant swim the chemical affect me but others can without difficulty. the endorphins created by exercise make you feel so much better as well as the firming up of those tiresome floppy places. As to feminity, well what I did is have a makeover. I was approached in a store to have a new hair do make up and a photo shoot. the results were such NO ONE believed the pictures were not  photo shopped...Nor did they believe the pics were of me. (When I got home I took selfies on the computer and much was to do with the lighting in the studio that made me look so glamerous - I was 65+)

So go out and have a fun day- laugh a lot -and boy will you be the sexy feminine person you were before you had The Itch. I went on my own  because I was a hundred or so miles away from my social network, but the change of hair style make up and a weeny bit of retail therapy did make me feel so much better about myself.

I have also found laugh and the world does laugh with you, and I keep my tears to myself - but  recently they have disappeared too.

When I started a management course many years ago I was told of the cheese and the mouse, and how a huge lump of cheese (the Big problem to be faced) could be nibbled away over time to make cheddar into gruyere- thus more managable to tackle

Take heart

 Best wishes  Sue

PS You   HAVE  managed to tell someone other than your husband - us - and that was very brave and a first step to gaining control

PPS I forgot to say re the nibbling away at the cheese - tackle or face one issue at a time. Don't try and get  the whole cheese eaten in one day - you will get indigestion. Look for the tastiest ( easiest ) piece to nibble. Being an ostrich too has its advantages....but THAT is another analogy!!

Thanks Mary i am with Sue on this one.  I am 57 and still feel like i am in my forties,  I play netball go the the gym and do yoga and pilates thats as well as looking after 3 grandchildren. Its hard but i am determined i am going to control this condition and not let it control me. Much love xx

yes do take heart mary....thinking of you warmly.

love marey xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

it was so nice of you to reply in such an encouraging way to jackie when she put herself forward. you have come forward bravely too and we are right behind you....aren't we girls?

please don't feel overwhelmed or alone anymore.

huge hug marey xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Also it can be amusing to try and find ways to Do The Itch Dance in public...I find that when it is THE most embarrassing or awkward The Itch reappears, and  the bodily contortions needed to relieve the Itch - and not to be like men who seemingly have NO inhibitions about scratching where they like as often as they like - would make interesting watching!

Keep smiling and look for half full glasses not half empty ones

Sue

 

Love to you too Jackie....can you visualise sue d doing her moves!! The itch dance in public...hope she 's cheered you up as much as me!! Tee Hee...........

Marey xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

hello sue...how do you do...made me think of ab fab ....you know the one where they mock the males and end up mating with the TV as far as I remember!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Cheered me up to, just knowing ive someone to whinge to helps me loads. Think we should all do the itch dance we could start a trend.

xx

you tell me your movements and i will tell you mine!!!

Whinge away whenever you feel a whinge coming on

Sue

Maybe we can recognise each other while out shopping or gadding...?

see what you've started here sue and jackie....its quite infectious!!

thanks for agreeing to  let me whinge, not sure about mareys idea about the itch dance in clogs though!!

 

I agree...perhaps more elegance is required- while WE KNOW what relief it gives should  the whole world know what we are about? I think not!

Your replies about itch dance has put a smile on my face although I have been itch free since February after 12 years of finding a corner in a shop etc to have a scratch so know one could see me. Its true some men have no inhibitions when they need to scratch. I try and tell women about LS if possible especially ladies who work at my chemist have never heard of it then maybe if they are suffering as well can get help and not always think they have thrush or its old age as I did. Need posters in doctors waiting rooms or ladies mags like adverts for other ladies health problems .

EXACTLY...couldn't agree more! How do we get such a campaign going?

i'm looking for folk to team up with in the cure process....i know much of the theory and a path lies before me but its the motivation factor....taking my omega 3 protected krill oil supplements and the whole regimen...groan! well done you for keeping at it with your methodology... have you got a regime going? care to share? well done for being itch free...i was after giving up grains but am not keeping to the next level....am much improved but not there yet...how are you doing?

PS Credit for the itch dance (brill!) goes to sue d.m   xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

hello again holiday....just looked back to your previous posts and note you're following the steroid route....glad you've found your way.

does dermovate have another name? can you remind me? 

first glance thought you were recommending a corner shop but ah ha the corner of any shop...oh yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss relief....whilst of course the folks on cctv  control will be having a giggle at us!!

Yes please share,  i have taken Sues advise and got cmo and celedrin so i may be able to use the dermovate spareingly,  grap any advise i can. Even if im not itching i imagine i am is that crazy???

Another way to combat The Itch is to scratch another part of your anatomy believing you are sorting out the offending part....It CAN work - well most of the time. ...OK Some of the time That way no harm is done to the offending area

that is inspired ...transfer of itching! I like it!!