Your Shortcomings Can Be Your SuperpowersWarning: This may be a trigger post for some. Negativity. Why it is so popular, I will never understand. I used to be a negative Nancy myself, so I do...reactions14comments
Your Bowel Issue Questions Answered by Your Pelvic Floor FriendsKathy Reagan Young of FUMSnow.com and Erin Glace, Pelvic Floor Dysfunction PT, are back in this video to answer YOUR questions about Bowel Issues in #MS. Their first video for...reactions4comments
What If It's Not All MS?I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in August of 2010 at the age of 20. I have been told by more than one neurologist that I have a pretty...reactions19comments
Easy Assembly: The Life of My Hands After MSIn 2012 I had a major relapse that sent me to the hospital in excruciating pain that a shot of Dilaudid (Hydromorphone) barely took the edge off. I remember my...reactionscomments
FES As a Way to Improve Mobility of People with MSFoot drop is when disruption to the nerve pathways between the legs and brain means that the front of the foot cannot be lifted to the correct angle when walking...reactions3comments
An Uncomfortable Truth: No $ In CuresIn a development more shocking than the capture of a live Bigfoot, a recent Goldman Sachs research report (click here and here) states in black-and-white what many have long suspected:...reactions5comments
Struggling To Be PerfectAs he drove the car, I stared out the window from the passenger seat. Daydreaming. Watching my life pass me by. Reflecting on everything I had voluntarily and involuntarily given...reactions43comments
The Emotional Roller Coaster of an MS Diagnosis, Pt 2In Part 1, I shared how the news of some recent friends' diagnoses (or suspected diagnoses) of MS have, in some ways, triggered memories of my own emotional roller coaster...reactions2comments
Independence Valued“But I wipe my own a--! I wipe my own a--!” cried the little boy, Julian, in the movie Big Daddy as he was pulled from the adoptive home he’d...reactionscomments
I’m Not Broken Because I Use a WheelchairI opened my email and read the headline, “Out of the Wheelchair and Onto a Bicycle: Dr. Terry Wahls' Story.” I looked at Dan and rolled my eyes. Not that...reactions56comments
Cognitive Dysfunction: When Reading Becomes a ChoreThe symptoms that go along with cognitive dysfunction because of multiple sclerosis are areas that I talk about a lot. The cognitive problems that have hit me in the years...reactions17comments
Something Worse than MSMultiple sclerosis is hard to live with, on that we can agree. But I’ve heard some pretty strange things from people over the years about stuff that vexes them more...reactions2comments
The Itch Is RealI’ve recently been weaning off of Cymbalta for personal reasons. With the wean I have noticed a lot of withdrawal symptoms. My worst symptoms so far have included fatigue, intense...reactions5comments
Dating with a Disease – Part Three: Intimate Issues (Doing It Dilemmas)As I continue on in my series about dating topics, I may not being going in any particular order. I may also cover topics that apply to marriage, too (though...reactions4comments
Touch Typing: One Way MS Has Affected My HandsI used to type pretty fast. Growing up, I remember taking computer classes that (among other things) focused a lot on the proper way to type. Each of your 8...reactions31comments
My Muddy Multiple SclerosisAttempting to describe what living with Multiple Sclerosis is like can actually be a very difficult venture. Cognitive problems, limited knowledge about the disease among many people, and the invisible...reactions45comments
Finding Direction When Newly Diagnosed – MSAA’s Newest Edition of The Motivator Available NowThe Multiple Sclerosis Association of America (MSAA) is excited to announce the latest edition of our magazine, The Motivator, is now available in print and digital versions! Featuring our cover...reactionscomments
Driving & MS: Realizing Potential DangersAs I write this, it’s been about two weeks since a Staten Island woman, claiming to suffer from Multiple Sclerosis, mowed down and killed two young children in a crosswalk...reactions10comments
Do You Know Enough about Where to Learn More? Here's How to Become Better-InformedThese days, you have to know an awful lot to know the right thing to do. People with MS can never know enough about MS. Many of us feel that...reactionscomments
MS and a MovieI love movies. I love how they can be used to tell so many different types of stories and evoke so many different kinds of emotions, not only by how...reactions25comments
