Stories

I want to be brutally honest about my recovery and progress. This past week home from the hospital has been life changing to say the least. New symptoms or hidden...

I’m very frustrated waiting for a diagnosis. My doctor has not yet ordered an MRI either, and I’m wondering when it will happen. For now it’s only “nerve damage,” but...

Almost 40 years ago, after my last child, I had vision that was like looking through a tunnel with fuzzy edges. I thought it was due to my emergency c-section...

After the sudden passing of my beloved dog, King, I felt emptiness. I lost my best friend and companion. About 4 days after his passing, I started experiencing numbness in...

I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at 22 1/2 years old. A couple of days ago (6 January 2019), I woke up with my left shoulder, arm, elbow, and my...

I was diagnosed on Halloween 2010. My neurologist called me and sort of barked, “You have MS,” into my BlackBerry. Guessing he didn’t know I was driving... it was a...

Hi. Yesterday I received confirmation, via spinal tap and bands presence, for MS. However my story begun while deployed in service in 2008, but I was told it was secondary...

I’m a little person in a big pond wanting to be heard and change the health of people with multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune disorders. My first leap – self-publishing...

Am new here but thought I’d share a few things about me and my MS. Diagnosed about 12 years ago. Started on Copaxone, then on to Betaseron and went on...

Over a year ago, I made a decision I didn't think I'd be making as a then, 27/28-year-old. After experiencing some of the worst MS symptoms I'd had by then...

I was first diagnosed in October 2000. I was disbelieving because I had been an avid runner (50+ miles a week). The sympathy of friends who only knew the negative...

I live in Norfolk, VA, and have many health issues. I am having Ocrevus infusions, which is super because I don't have to go to get treatments often. There is...

Wait for it... Wait... It’s coming... Four little words strung together forming an innocent question, “How are you doing?” I really don’t mind being asked – I’m just sometimes at...

I am my husband's caregiver for the past 19 years. At first, MS was nothing but a few controllable symptoms. He did every clinical trial available at that time and...

Yeah, yeah... that’s everybody’s story. I was just recently, after a decade, finally diagnosed and finally had a doctor RECOGNIZE the symptoms. I feel there is a glimmer of hope...

MS means the need to constantly adapt to new realities, probably more so with progressive MS than with remitting-relapsing. About six years ago I lost the use of my left...

The worst part, brain fog. For me, I was quick thinker, now not so much. Hard to deal with who you are now as to what you used to do...

Back in 1985 when I was a junior in university in Nebraska, I woke up at 3am with funny vision in my right eye. It turned out to be optic...

Multiple Sclerosis is currently found in over one million Americans. Women are three times more likely to contract MS than men. And, unfortunately, the number of even currently married women...

Hi, I'm Trish... I'm new to this site, but not new to MS. For years I had trouble with pain, insomnia, fatigue, balance, foot drop, muscle spasms and memory problems...