I went to the dentist a few months ago. The procedure I was getting required lidocaine which naturally rendered the left side of my face and my lips and chin feeling as though someone had stuffed them with foam rubber. The worst part of the entire visit was that injection of lidocaine, even with the swabbing down of the injection site with numbing gel.
As the drug took effect, I thought of my legs. I thought of how similar my oral numbness felt to that compression stocking sensation I feel in both of my legs. That tingling is familiar! My MS legs must be full of lidocaine!
I had to be careful about my mouth for a couple of hours after my appointment. My face looked entirely normal, but it felt swollen and inert. No one would know, no one could tell what I was experiencing. Silent, invisible and very real. So goes MS.
I stopped at the grocery store before heading home. I glanced sideways at the scooters parked next to the front door, but grabbed a shopping cart instead and started pushing. Lidocaine legs are passably functional but definitely taxed by the effort it takes to use them. Familiar theme for those of us who live with MS. My list was short and a walk around the store counts as exercise in my book.
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| By Ben Mills - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5750147 |
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