Are you increasing your mobility with multiple sclerosis?

Are you taking advantage of every possible method to boost your current mobility and help claim your future mobility with multiple sclerosis? I urge you to do everything now to protect your mobility in the future. Multiple Sclerosis is a terrible disease - don't make it worse. Let me tell you what happened to me.

A couple of years ago my doctor told me to be sure I am lifting weights and working out. The doctor indicated that it would help keep the mobility issues surrounding multiple sclerosis at bay. I remember thinking 'any doctor would say that.' He just wants me to be healthier in general and is not concerned about my multiple sclerosis. Boy was I wrong.

I worked out but then a lot of stuff happened last year and for about 6 mos I temporarily stopped. Wow, was I surprised at how much strength I had lost. It was as if the multiple sclerosis was allowed to run rampant on my mobility. When I went back to try to lift weights, I could not lift nearly as much as I could 6 months before. I have stopped weight training and cardio for long periods of time and never experienced this. I could always snap back into it.

A year later, I am still struggling to get near the amount of weight I was lifting. All of this, of course, impacts my everyday abilities and my multiple sclerosis. I lost quite a bit of mobility in that 6 month hiatus. I will not ever intentionally negatively impact my multiple sclerosis again.