Stories

I hate to be negative, but I'm not adjusting well to my MS and I've had it 18 yrs. At least 18 yrs ago I was dx'd with MS. I...

I have MS for the past 14 years. I was diagnosed May 20 1999. It was not easy I couldn't walk without a walker and do what I just normally...

My main MS issues involve my cognitive functions. I get easily distracted, my short term memory is non existent and anxiety is very much a part of my everyday life...

I've had MS so long I take things as they come. I try to do the best with what I have. But no longer work and they are a pain...

It was the second day of my senior year in high school when I really told anyone what was going on. About a week before I had woke up at...

Let me start off by saying that sometimes I have what I call a quirky MS misadventure. A recent pre-nocturnal, unanticipated, escape artist of sort’s incident, which threw me for...

My purpose in writing this is to share my experience and relationship with cannabis as an MS suffer. I am "coming out of the closet". I am 59, a mother...

As a RRMS 47 year old I have years of experience with Multiple Sclerosis. I also have the same with advocacy and activism. Last Wednesday I had the honor of...

It was a cold, dark February morning in 2005 and once again, my eye and facial pain was back. The antibiotics my old GP gave me the week before did...

i was diagnosed about 4 yrs ago and other than numb legs i was coping well. i have gone through some horrific stressful times at work recently and it brought...

There is not one person I know who asked for MS. I certainly know I didn't! However,I challenge all of you to turn your anger,sadness,bitterness or whatever negative feelings you...

My story is….I have had a lot of medical problems in my life so I felt that what I kept experiencing was just going to my normal. I was fatigued...

I was diagnosed with MS in 1998. I had been teaching school for 13 years. A job that I loved! I had gone to college when our two daughters were...

A fading fifteen years it has been since my diagnosis of MS was confirmed. However, little did I realize at the time, my denial of the ever present possibilities of...

Inspiration. With it we can overcome the steepest of obstacles yet without it we are left feeling utterly incapable. While its etiology is as varied and individual as the people...

NOVEMBER 11, 2013 AT 4:40 PM Cog-fog. Thanks for putting a name to it. It has been difficult to explain to people who are at the receiving end of my...

Many people on this site have expressed the challenges of MS and employment. I would like to add another experience that was not so positive. My initial strategy for dealing...

Let me start by telling you a little bit about myself. Back in I don't know maybe 2003 or 2004, maybe even earlier, I would get this weird tingling feeling...

Stress is my honorary four-letter word. Yes, I can count to six and know it’s not necessarily a bad word but if you have MS it can be downright lethal...

What would our world be without friends? Spouses and significant others are incredible and they often are among our closest friends, however, friends are invaluable. I've always believed that friendships...