Stories

I started having symptoms in 2009. I was still working and life was good. My symptoms started slowly but progressed rapidly and by January 2010 I had to quit my...

I am almost two years into my diagnosis and I cannot believe what has happened and how our lives have changed... I suffer much pain and other losses from the...

My close friend has progressive MS. I'm 43 & she is 41. I want to help her in so many ways; sometimes I feel helpless & let her just cry...

I was diagnosed in 2007 at the age of 55 but can trace it back almost 20 years. My youngest daughter had been diagnosed 10 years earlier. Her father, my...

Hi everyone My name is Kate and I was diagnosed with MS February of 2011 when I was 30. I woke up and started getting ready for work and noticed...

I first came down with MS in 1981, didn't know what it was. I went numb in the legs and torso. It was hard to walk. There were no know...

I'm 58 years young and was diagnosed with RRMS at the tender age of 25-ish, before MRI was being used. Based on multiple factors my GP/PCP tenderly "diagnosed" me -...

The following is my story of having been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, and the shocking discovery that my MS symptoms were caused by exposure to mercury in the dental office...

I was diagnosed in 2005. I was 25 years old with two small children ages 4 and 5. I was also married at that time for 6 years. I woke...

My neurologist feels I had a CIS in 2001. I was not diagnosed with this way back then, I was just dismissed by an emergency room as an anomaly. I...

I was dx. in 2000 at the age of 55 after twice being in the hospital with what I was told was a stroke. The last time I was in...

In the past 3 weeks I have finally been feeling almost back to my old self. Spending time with my husband and son, laughing, sitting up and most days pain...

I moved to Florida in 2003. I had just graduated from a 4 year nursing school. I was proud of myself because being 48 made all that college stuff hard...

Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at age 23, I was terrified and uncertain about my future. I still remember the day as if it were yesterday, the vision burned in my...

Even as a child, my balance and coordination was not good. As a teenager, not only was I uncoordinated, but I started having problems with depression. After high school, I...

After 25 years in the corporate world of Sales and Sales Management, I decided to make a change and pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a Firefighter and Paramedic. Over...

My name is Carol Norris, I have MS. So many people are affected by MS in so many different ways. Whether it's the person who suffers from the disease, to...

I started having symptoms before age 10, but the doctors told me it was something else. Same by the time when I was 15. By the time I was 20...

I was diagnosed in 1988 with relapsing remitting MS. For 12 years I had a relapse 2 or 3 times a year but I always got better with prednisone. In...

I am a 62 year old retired geophysicist. I lived and worked overseas with my wife and 3 children. In about 1990, approximately a year after I experienced a severe...