Stories

Since being diagnosed with MS, I have devoted a large part of my life learning specifically about... ME and how my mind, body, and spirit function in regards to my...

My fiance and I both have secondary progressive MS and would love to be an inspiration to others. Lee has had MS for 17 years and myself 20 years. Lee...

I was 13. One morning I woke up "paralyzed". Actually it was extreme muscle spasm. I was told it was probable MS. That was 1978. I never was the diamond...

Hi, I'm Mary. My story could go on forever. Diagnosed in 86, and perhaps I will tell the whole thing. Eventually, through conversation in an un-alarmist way. I am mostly...

I’m Nita and I was diagnosed in April 1980. Knew absolutely nothing at all about it. I was tested the old-fashioned way. A long needle inserted through my groin with...

It was spring of 1992, and I wake up one morning having double vision. After one week the symptoms got worst and that made me visit a hospital... Doctor's diagnosis...

I was diagnosed in late Sept. of 2019. Started with my eyes. Was put out on disability. Have trouble walking. Pain in my back, a lot of depression and anxiety...

I was told that my MS has been in me since 2007. I didn't know until 2009 when my left side of my face and neck went numb. I went...

I was diagnosed with MS over 30 years ago. It scared me half to death – thought I’d had a stroke bc I couldn’t walk and talking was in syllables...

My name is Lavynia Galarza and I was born and raised in a Catholic home in Utuado, Puerto Rico. I grew up in a loving family and went to Catholic...

I think I can relate to what she is going through because I got diagnosed with full-blown AIDS. Even though the meds have greatly restored my immune system, I, like...

My name is Becky Pilcher and I was diagnosed with RRMS in 2004, several years later, SPMS and now active secondary progressive MS. Even though my MS is progressing, it's...

My fight began in 2014 with numbness in hands/legs. I felt like a test subject for years. I was afraid to hold my children as babies. Finally, in 2017 I...

It's not just my legs, arms, and brain that malfunction on a daily basis, I can't breathe, and it's awful. After so much testing that my insurance company probably thought...

It all started with the vision in my left eye getting blurry. Old story I know. But I didn't pay a lot of attention to it because it wasn't too...

One early morning when I was 19 years old, I woke up in the middle of the night sick to my stomach and a migraine so bad. Next thing I...

The summer of 2003 I took a water aerobics class. When class was done, I had issues getting out of the pool. Once out, my left leg was numb to...

Lately, I haven't felt like myself for a number of reasons, so many, I can't put them down all at one time. One thing that has really been messing with...

Hi everyone, I am a 39-year-old, married with 3 children. I was diagnosed with MS after going blind in my left eye in 2015. I actually think I have been...

The first memory for me of independence brings back the memory of the day I got my Driver’s license, the keys to my car and the road of possibility was...