Stories

I was a 12-year-old getting ready for bed when I laid down, and suddenly, I felt different, just not right. I screamed and cried as I did not know what...

Twenty-four years ago this month, I woke up to a brand-new reality. MS gripped me like a pit bull shaking a ragdoll, and it felt like it shook the stuffing...

I was diagnosed in October 2011 at 40 years old. I am 53 now, and until mid-2021, I refused to use MS as a reason I couldn't do something. I...

I’m a 68-year-old man and was just diagnosed with MS in 2020, although I now believe I have had it for as many as 20 years before diagnosis. I've had...

I was diagnosed in October of 2023 after years of issues, I thought I would feel relief when I got a diagnosis. I didn’t know much about it and to...

So it all started in 2011 during a hurricane here in NC. The power had gone out, so I figured I'd go out to my car and listen to the...

I was 22 when I got my RRMS diagnosis and faced a number of new health issues. I found it hard to continue my active life. Running and jogging had...

This is going to be a long submission but I hope it is readable and can be read with your humor radar working! Or maybe it will be shorter than...

Being a disabled veteran diagnosed with MS in 1980, I've experienced many years of relapsing MS. I had good days, bad days, and some with what almost felt like no...

At a very young age, probably five to seven years old, I was in pain and had spasms. I was so young that I called it an itch. It was...

We all have dreams growing up. So I set out and made them all come true. Then multiple sclerosis killed my dreams. After finishing college, I married the man of...

I didn't know what was wrong with me. I thought I was actually losing my mind. That I could actually be losing my mind was the most horrible thing that...

I started not feeling physically well about 20 years ago. It was put down to a diagnosis of ME. I never fully agreed with it and advocated for an MRI...

I was diagnosed with MS in December 2006 and started Avonex immediately. I was terrified of needles then. I'm now 44 years old and have been through several medications. I'm...

Whenever people ask me about MS, I find myself saying the same line; "I'm fortunate". I tell them "I'm fortunate that it’s not worse for me" and "I'm fortunate that...

I decided to enter a weight loss contest three years ago. Gradually I increased my beginning fitness program from 5 minutes on a leg press, 5 minutes in a swimming...

I waited for the leaden thump to land in my belly. I hadn’t expected a Jaws-style dolly-zoom or sombre pizzicato strings to pluck out a funeral march. But, as the...

This is my big BUT GOD moment. I started experiencing my first symptoms of MS in 2017. The right side of my face went numb, with angioedema. I was going...

Well, it was Friday, and I had to go to an office meeting in the hospital where I worked. It was July, so it was very hot outside and hot...

I forget about the pains and aches that accompany my RRMS despite the monthly injections I receive and quarterly blood draws. I forget that I don’t have the energy and...