Laughter is the Best Medicine: BFS Symptoms

Hopefully this will be good for a laugh for someone. After all, they say that laughter is the very best medicine! I'm sure we all can relate to this.The Top Ten Lesser-Known Symptoms of BFS10. The remarkable ability to diagnose BFS in any other person in the world, but the complete inability to diagnose it in yourself. After all, when it's my symptoms, it's different.9. The innate ability to seek out evil neurologists who are only here to lie to us. Bastards. We BFS'ers know that there are a lot of them.8. The amazing ability to have a nasty sinister disease 1 hour out of the day, but no disease at all the other 23. 7. The ability to recognize every single twitch in your body, even ones you have probably had for years and just didn't notice. Holy crap, is that my pancreas?6. Super Googling ability. A true BFSer can find any nasty disease in the world in just five key strokes. Beat that, Al Gore. The internet is mine.5. The ability to put ourselves in the shoes of any person with any disease in any tiny little corner of the world. If someone once had Norwegian tsetse fly malaria in 1932, apparently now we have it too. After all, we heard there was muscle ache involved.4. The magical ability to walk around the block and go to the grocery store thirty minutes after having "calf muscle atrophy."3. The foresight to know that you will one day beat astronomical odds and make medical history by becoming the first person in 5,000 years to have BFS and later have it turn into something else. I mean, damnit, I know it has never happened before. But it will with me. I know this, because I have Jedi mind powers!2. The Rain Man-like ability to calculate that my right forearm has only 99.999997999 percent of the strength that it did on January 8th. But 102.33333333 percent of the strength that it had on March 17th.1. The infuriating habit of finding neurologists who apparently have no idea what neurology is, and/or have no clue what an EMG does or how an MRI works. Man, we seem to attract those idiot doctors like flies! Why do they even let them get out of medical school??Enjoy your Wednesday, BFS sufferers. Hope you enjoyed that.

That did make me laugh...thanks, I almost spat my coffee at the monitor!!!!!

I needed that today Thank you!

Thanks for helping me start my day with a good laugh!

That was great! So, so true unfortunately. What's wrong with us?? Thanks for the laugh. It was much needed today.

87.7654321 % of me is laughing because the other part of me is afraid to laugh ... very well done...

Funny, and some not10-That is a good one, got me on that.9-I sought a Neurlogist who would not talk to me like an idiot, and I found one.8-You clearly do not have what I have.7-You clearly do not twitch like I do, but there is some truth to this.6-In my days of googling I have found only one disease that fits my mold, unfortunatley. I have never googled for any other health reasons than this.5-The only disease I have thought I had was ALS4-You got me on that, that is a good one.3-I do not know what the exact odds are, but your right, and when you think about it, you have to laugh.2-I bought a spring hand exerciser, I can do 25 reps with my right, 6 or 7 with my left.1-I refer back to by response to item 10.There has to be one heckler in the crowd, right

That's fine. Aside from having BFS, I am a comedy writer in real life. I am used to hecklers. That's why this is America.I just think that laughing at our own ridiculousness once in a while can't hurt.

How funny and how true.......what IS the matter with us anyway

I agree Mario, we need to walk on the light hearted side sometimes, thanks for the post.

WOW, that was 100% accurate and 110% funny ... thanks for making me smile

Cindy,That depends on what your definition of the word "is" is?

I think this should be one of those posts that stays at the top of the page all the time. it was perfect and in some weird way very reassuring

Wow, I forgot I even wrote this. I think this was my second or third post on bfsforum.com. Talk about coming in as a newbie and trying to make a name for myself.

Thats the Mario we know & love!! ~*~Amy~*~

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.I think that after four months, I am starting to calm down, I now only have to tell myself 20 times a day that I do not have ALS. (It was 40 times a week ago).You are so spot on. I constantly test myself, which is so sad, since four months ago I was a triathlete and had not even had a cold in four years.

Sweet Bumpi have never seen this post- awesome job Mario- ill start my day tomorrow with it- again nice bump ionyZarrionD

Bumping this. We all need a little humor in our day.

This post offends me. I do not think the author was very nice in posting it.

You should be offended, he doesnt know you at all