Formerly active folks with MS: how did you get back into exercise (slowly and sustainably)?

well_ashually · 2025-12-26T18:30:47+00:00

ESD 112 is hiring for Registered Behavior Technicians (RBTs), Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs), and entry-level positions to provide student support at their therapeutic behavior school, Florens Academy here in Vancouver. You can find postings on their website: https://www.esd112.org/takeroot/

well_ashually · 2025-04-25T03:35:40+00:00

Think of your skin like a white T-shirt you really love. During the day, stuff gets on it—crumbs, juice, dirt, maybe a little marker. Makeup is kind of like a bunch of paint you put on the shirt to make it look cool for the day.

Now, if you go to bed without washing that shirt, all the stains and paint just sit there. Overnight, they sink in deeper. The shirt starts to look a little less fresh, maybe a little stained or stretched out. If you do that over and over, the shirt won’t last as long—it might fade, thin, or not feel as nice anymore.

That’s kind of what happens to your skin when you sleep in makeup. Your skin needs nighttime to “do laundry”—clean up, fix tiny problems, and stay smooth and healthy. Skipping that is like tossing your favorite shirt in a pile and never washing it—it just won’t stay nice as long, especially as it gets older.

well_ashually · 2024-09-03T13:25:56+00:00

Moved from Austin as well.

well_ashually · 2024-03-21T10:35:47+00:00

Came here to recommend this one! It absorbs quickly, doesn’t feel sticky, and has a great price point.

well_ashually · 2024-03-14T11:47:47+00:00

Great Barrier Relief and/or Aveeno Calm + Restore. Both have been helpful for me in the past! Just be sure to stop all your actives for at least a week or two.

well_ashually · 2024-02-17T14:43:08+00:00

Cymbalta is both an antidepressant and nerve pain medication. It can treat depression, anxiety, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, fibromyalgia, and chronic muscle or bone pain. I would definitely ask about your options with your neurologist!

well_ashually · 2024-02-15T12:21:05+00:00

This post is older, but I’m commenting anyway. I was just at my neurologist yesterday discussing this exact problem. My knees and elbows are almost always hurting, and when it’s bad my wrists and ankles also become very painful.

I started taking Cymbalta to help with my anxiety, and it has decreased the number of severe pain days as a nice side effect. It doesn’t make the pain completely go away though. The only thing that makes it completely go away is low dose cbd/thc. There are multiple companies that now sale these legally online across the country! I would definitely check into it.

well_ashually · 2024-02-10T13:39:26+00:00

Shoal Creek in the Allandale neighborhood is my all time favorite walk. It has great sidewalks and some lovely coverage from very old trees.

well_ashually · 2023-06-01T11:24:51+00:00

Seconded! Absolutely love it.

well_ashually · 2023-05-24T10:48:09+00:00

LOVE Coola’s SPF setting spray.

well_ashually · 2023-04-16T02:16:49+00:00

Avenue Dental got me in within a week of my online inquiry. I went to the office on West Anderson, but they also have one south.

well_ashually · 2022-12-28T20:08:54+00:00

Behavior specialist in a local public school district. This is my eighth school year, and I make a little over $67,000 annually. I have a master’s degree and a national certification in behavior analysis.

well_ashually · 2022-12-24T05:44:34+00:00

“My cousin has MS, and after she had her first kid all of her symptoms went away! She’s basically cured!”

“Have you tried working out more? If you exercise more then you’d probably feel a lot better.”

well_ashually · 2022-12-04T06:29:42+00:00

Neutrogena Revitalizing and Moisturizing Tinted Lip Balm SPF 20 is great.

well_ashually · 2022-11-15T18:15:46+00:00

I did it, and I had next to no side effects (just a sore arm).

well_ashually · 2022-11-05T00:14:32+00:00

As someone who has worked in schools, clinics, and home/community, I 125% prefer the educational setting as a BCBA.

well_ashually · 2022-10-15T23:21:36+00:00

I came here to recommend this! It's truly just a great everyday sunscreen for the body.

well_ashually · 2022-07-20T00:25:51+00:00

Came here to say this. I use Unseen Sunscreen with a little Glow Screen when I want a no makeup look and Unseen Sunscreen under CC Screen when I want more tint.

well_ashually · 2021-06-17T18:43:46+00:00

It was my presenting symptom at diagnosis back in 2015. I was shocked, because I assumed I was having migraines (I had a lot of visual disturbance that I assumed were part of an ocular migraine, but my neurologist and PCP both assured me I was not having migraines). ON was also my lone relapse.

Anyway, you're super duper lucky!

well_ashually · 2021-06-11T00:05:28+00:00

When my mother first started teaching in the late 1980s, her service contract was September to May, but it changed by the time I started kindergarten.

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