Stories

I’m 54 years old, divorced, live alone. I’m on SSDI for 16 years but work part time to make ends meet. I have only had 2 attacks in my life...

I was diagnosed 6 months after my eldest daughter was born (26 years ago) at the age of 27 after quite a lot of hospital admissions and then a follow-up...

I’ve had MS for over 18 years (2002). I just got married four months into a marriage. You’re still married I have a child. We have a happy marriage. I...

People often ask me how I am doing, which is fine, I know they are concerned and I respect that. What my normal response is: “Oh, just the regular.” What...

I am 66 and MS was diagnosed in 1996, and ultimately led to Love. My boyfriend is 72, and we have been together 7 years this month. We met in...

I normally walk pretty well with no help. And on a good day, I bounce along just fine. I try to work out a few times a week just to...

They were wishy-washy about making a confirmed diagnosis, you want to know how they finally said yes? They did a simple blood test for human parvovirus and when it came...

Spider, you said you are older and still have no diagnosis. Me, too. I’m in my 7th decade of life and in the last couple of years, started having many...

How MS has improved my life Wait.... what? How did having multiple sclerosis improve my life? Did I write that wrong? Actually no, I did not. Please let me explain...

One of the more frustrating issues with this disease is the ability to communicate. I love to talk. To talk about anything really. Be it a movie I saw, the...

Because of my MS, the voice that leaves my mouth is terribly inappropriate at times. Or more often than I would like, much of what I say is just plain...

I have not been diagnosed with MS. I have been classified as an older woman with a lot of strange complaints. I have been literally laughed at by my doctor...

Here is a funny story for today, nothing to do with MS for a change. As we are both elderly, we both have hearing aide. My husband lost his right...

As a teen in high school, drop foot was always an issue, but hey I was young 16 and had boys to meet, get my classes lined up in the...

I am so tired of being tired. I'm tired at failing to balance my disease gracefully and to ensure that those close to me don't flee from my inability to...

Long complicated story, let me try to simplify as much as I can while covering the basics. Early 90s when 28 I tore all the muscles on one side of...

I was diagnosed with MS 10 years ago, 2010. It was invisible. No one knew about the incontinence. No one thought my poor memory or depression was anything more than...

Moved to California February 2002. I started working for Warner Bros and worked for 11 years. Married in 2007, I didn’t have MS and thought it was just not rehabbing...

This is the story of my final two weeks with my late fiancee, Tracey. I have written about some of this in the Caregivers forum, as it happened in real...

I've been dealing with MS's annoying issues for nearly 25 years. I have constant pain in some form: a perpetual headache, neuropathy (now feet and hands), fibromyalgia, contact hives (courtesy...