Living with MS

My mind goes blank, I feel like all the education I have has gone out the window, and my head hurts trying to think straight. I get frustrated because I...

As I wrote yesterday, from now through Tuesday I’ll be subjecting myself to a Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD), in the hopes that severely reducing my caloric intake for five days...

My dearest friend recently wrote a blog post that I just loved. She describes how now that she is grieving the loss of her father, when Father’s Day rolled around...

I have struggled with bladder symptoms since being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), and I know I am far from being alone! I not only live it firsthand, but as...

Every so often everyone has one of those days where they just don’t feel well. The start of a cold? The flu? Just working too hard on too little sleep?...

Having a chronic illness like Multiple Sclerosis makes life difficult. It can be an extremely hard life that requires a large amount of support. We often find that support in...

A significant number of patients who go through the MS diagnostic process experience a disturbing pattern of misdiagnoses and dismissiveness from physicians. If you were one of them, as I...

Nearly 2 years ago I put together a list of my favorite MS tricks and tips, and the responses that I have received from the MS community have been so...

That title is extremely sarcastic, folks! While many of us with Multiple Sclerosis have a wide range of symptoms, there are certainly a number of things we have in common...

I don’t know how many times during my pre-MS life I exercised to yet another workout video where the instructor needled me into holding a difficult pose and said, "Do...

As traumatic as a multiple sclerosis diagnosis was for me, the trauma soon faded and the losses that followed lingered much longer in my memory. The first loss was that of my...

Up until about a year ago, I was doing very well on Tysabri, and it seemed like my relentless wave of relapses were finally in check. However, eventually, my MS...

For most people, despite appearances, living with Multiple Sclerosis isn’t easy.  We’re plagued by severe fatigue, pain, spasms, and a bunch of other invisible symptoms. Life with MS is also...

The time of year that so many with multiple sclerosis fear is nearly upon us. That’s right, summer is coming! Whenever the temps start to climb, those battling MS have begun...

I want to write about something that I feel is sadly, often swept under the rug and left to go unnoticed. It’s that giant elephant in the room that is...

Most of us have those friends or family members that are the difficult ones. They’re bullies. They’re irritating and hard to be around. Sometimes they’re rude and ugly for absolutely...

Have you ever had someone look at you, and not believe that you have Multiple Sclerosis, or something similar? Have you ever had to show proof that you are, in...

It has been shown that MS affects primarily more women than men. As I’m sure most other women can relate, "that time of the month" is just a really yucky...

As I was getting to my computer so I could sit down and write this before I forgot, I made my first apology. I apologized to the end table that...

If you are anything like me when you think about sex, you might start with a wistful memory of better days. Whether it was in the earlier stages of the...