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.”
![IMG_0277 Hook Toe (Is that nail fungus?)](https://www.myoddsock.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0277-150x150.jpg)
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.
![IMG_0276 Rise & Shine](https://www.myoddsock.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0276-150x150.jpg)
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!
![IMG_0281 I've seen smaller corns at a Farmer's Market](https://www.myoddsock.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0281-150x150.jpg)
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!
![IMG_0282 Watch your step smartguy](https://www.myoddsock.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0282-150x150.jpg)
Of course, with “draggy feet,” there are challenges with each step.
![IMG_0284 Have some liver with those bunions](https://www.myoddsock.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0284-300x225.jpg)
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.
2 Replies to “Two New MS Symptoms”
Odd Sock — those two symptoms are what made me realize something was wrong and on to diagnosis. You’ll find that draggyitis also leads to hip swivel — a great step to a new dance called the MS Shuffle!
Peace,
Muff
TYVM you’ve slvoed all my problems