What are some tips for living with multiple sclerosis (MS)?

Here are tips for people with multiple sclerosis: Keep balance in your life. Prioritize, eliminate, consolidate, and streamline activities in all aspects of your life. Take care of yourself.

Be sensible about how you spend your time and energy. Do those things that are most important to you and to your family. Try to eliminate unnecessary or difficult tasks.

Give yourself permission to rest; put your feet up whenever possible. Make compromises and remove the word "should" from your vocabulary. Pace your activities; try to break an activity down into a series of smaller tasks.

Rest before you become exhausted and, if need be, enlist the help of others. Eat a healthy diet. Do not skip meals.

Carry trail mix, nuts, and/or fresh fruit with you. Eat a healthy snack, and avoid the temptation to grab a candy bar with hollow calories and little nutritional value. Arrange your home for your convenience.

Sometimes, this means putting furniture in strategic locations to help you walk from room to room or placing a chair halfway down a long hallway so that you can stop to rest. Sometimes, it means purchasing duplicate cleaning supplies for both upstairs and downstairs rooms. When you need help, take advantage of the products, services, and people available.

When you need something or someone to help you, don't look at it as giving in. Instead, look at it as making an intelligent decision that will make your life easier and safer. Walkie-talkies can help you communicate around the house or while shopping, traveling, at museums, theme parks, art shows, or anywhere you might become separated from others in your group.

They also can be used to monitor someone sleeping in another room. Walkie-talkies are sold at electronic, discount, or office supply stores. Before going out, call ahead to a restaurant, theater, new doctor's office, and so forth, and ask if the facility is handicap-accessible.

Ask about parking facilities and where the restrooms are located, the most convenient entrance, and so on -- anything that might create a challenge or concern you. When noisy environments in restaurants, grocery stores, and department stores exhaust you, select quieter places in which to spend your time. Look for places with drapes, low ceilings, and carpeted or vinyl floors that absorb the sound; avoid establishments that have wooden floors, loud background music, multiple TVs, or high unfinished ceilings.

Carry earplugs in your purse or pocket.

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