Care Giving With Good Care...Let me begin by saying kudos to all of the conscientious, caring, willing, thoughtful, hard-working, compassionate, skilled, and helpful Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs), Home Health Aides, and Personal Care Attendants. If...Reactions0reactionsComments5 comments
Strangulation feeling around the neck...I'm still quite new here with this community, I have not yet been diagnosed I have my MRI in about a week. Last night I felt a very strange feeling...Reactions0reactionsComments3 repliesSymptomsUndiagnosed/Seeking Diagnosis
Living with MS. ...I'd known for around 8 years ago that something was wrong with me. I was having a lot of trouble with balance and walking very far. I was a water...Reactions0reactionsComments1 repliesWork & EmploymentDiagnosisCoping
Rehabilitation after fracture ...I fell and fractured my tibia, and fibula. It’s referred to as a tib-fib fracture. It required surgery to realign the bones. I’ve been in the hospital for a few...Reactions0reactionsComments6 repliesInsurance & DisabilityTreatmentAssistive Devices
Anxious about neurology appt next week ...Hi everyone, Thank you in advance for reading this - I saw my primary care doc last month for symptoms and have been referred to a neurologist, who I'm seeing...Reactions0reactionsComments4 repliesCopingUndiagnosed/Seeking Diagnosis
Faulty Medtronic Pump...I've had 4 pumps over the last 16 years. The 1st one at one point in time had something happen & it changed from it's set flow to a full...Reactions0reactionsComments2 repliesPain
Career Ending...I was in healthcare, and although I'd heard of MS, I was not at all familiar with it. For me I had fainted at first, but never did learn the...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
Life After Disability...Being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in my early 20’s was an unexpected shock. Getting diagnosed with an incurable disease at any age is a life-changing event. As surprising and terrifying...Reactions0reactionsComments18 comments
Life and Challenges with MS...Living with Multiple Sclerosis is every day, month and year. When I was told that I had M.S. in 2007, I thought the world was going to crumble down on...Reactions0reactionsComments7 comments
Community Spotlight: A Glimpse Into Martin's MS Journey...Martin, a valued member of our MultipleSclerosis.net community, graciously agreed to spend some time chatting with us about his life with MS. We covered a lot of different topics during...Reactions0reactionsComments1 comments
What The MS?!!!!!...About 6 months after having my one and only child, I started to notice that I really was not myself. I forgot people’s names, mixed up words in sentences while...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
If I Knew Then What I Know Now......I would have prioritized my self-advocacy over self-doubt. I would have trusted my body to tell me what it needed rather than forcing a uniform lifestyle on it based on...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
Doing My Best for a Living...When meeting someone for the first time or seeing someone after many years, it's natural to ask questions to become acquainted or reacquainted. Areas of interest may revolve around family...Reactions0reactionsComments20 comments
From Bad to Worse...I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease in 1974. I got the worst kind right off the bat. Fistula, the whole shebang. I was 17. Fast forward to 2009 and several...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
No Way...I was diagnosed in 2018 after a vague tingling in my right foot was getting a bit scary (and annoying). I was 57 at the time, a bit on the...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
The Good Stuff...There are days when I'll suddenly stop and realize how good I truly feel. I may be exhausted to the core, and I know I need to rest, but I...Reactions0reactionsComments5 comments
a lot of symptoms with no diagnosis...about 20 years ago i developed optic neuritis and was given an MRI but no lesions were found. Since then i have neuritis 2 more times and continue to be...Reactions0reactionsComments2 repliesUndiagnosed/Seeking Diagnosis
My Husband's Journey with MS...My husband, in his mid-thirties, started getting very fatigued after mowing the lawn. We had moved from Iowa to Florida for his new job as assistant director of a library...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
MS and Cog Fog...What Was I Thinking About?...I am sure most, if not all, of us have enjoyed that moment of “what was I going to do?" or "what was I thinking?” That puzzled look, scratching your...Reactions0reactionsComments28 comments
The Mystery of Missing My Medication...A few days ago, I was sitting around my house and realized that I wasn’t feeling quite right. My head felt fuzzy and I was markedly more tired than I...Reactions0reactionsComments68 comments
