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Contributing video producer Kathy Reagan Young shares some some tricks for life with MS to help with cog-fog, fatigue while out and about, and how to find your happy place!...

The role of caregiver to MS patients is multi-faceted. Provider. Support system. Cheerleader. Head chef and bottle-washer. Trusted advisor. If you care for one with MS, most of the roles...

I recently ran across a discussion in a forum on the subject of local workshops for forest bathing. (Yes, this is the kind of thing you encounter living in the...

There are times when MS is ‘easier’ to deal with. Times when it's not so blatantly ‘there’. Those particular moments are the times when I can just ‘be’. That's when...

Trigger WarningThe content includes information related to mental and emotional distress and it might be upsetting to some people. If you or someone you know have thoughts of suicide, have...

Every so often, I’ll glance at myself in the mirror and think, “Wow, what happened?” After two decades of battling an incurable illness that plagues me with mobility issues and...

Warning: 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...

Kathy 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...

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...

In 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...

Foot 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...

In 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:...

As 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...

In 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...

“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...

I 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...

The 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...

Multiple 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...

I’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...

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...