My Experience of Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

Its so good to find something on this site about MS. On many others I have found it to be a sort of taboo subject. I myself suffer with MS, currently I'm being looked after by my husband and my children, aged 13,11 and 4. They are all wonderful and such good help! I have been a sufferer for the past 6yrs and will be for the rest of my life. Needless to say, there is no cure for MS other than injections which only control the symptoms, but even then your never guaranteed to be relapse or pain free. Personally, I can normally tell when staring a relapse as my first symptom is always optic neuritis. This is a very ...  Read the complete review

I am writing this review in the hope to raise awareness on Multiple Sclerosis (MS), please do not feel obliged to rate or comment if you don’t feel like it. Around early April of 2003, my husband Craig started experiencing dizzy spells on a regular basis, whilst walking etc, he was not over exerting himself in anyway whatsoever at the time, so we were puzzled by this and put it down to some kind of viral infection. Around two weeks later, Craig was working a 12 hour nightshift, but when he came home in the morning, we were due to attend a funeral, so Craig therefore was unable to gain any sleep. Later on that afternoon, he started experiencing ...  Read the complete review

My mother has coped with MS for the past 11 years, and this is my experience of coping with and supporting a relative suffering from MS, and her terrible time at the mercy of this little known disease. My mothers' condition first emerged in 1988. At the time, we didn't know why she had suddenly lost the ability to walk properly, blaming her vertigo at the time. I hadn't even reached double figures in age, consequently my stepfather concealed the full extent of this problem from my young eyes. I only faintly recall watching him prop her up and struggling up and down the hallway of our flat, at the request of my frightened mother. The problem soon ...  Read the complete review

That's what I was told for such a long time. It’s all in your head. I have MS. I had to think long and hard about writing this opinion. I decided to write it because, in this category, the opinions that exist at the moment have been written by people who have experience of MS via a relative or friend, but don’t actually have it themselves. My Dad is always telling me that there aren’t many benefits to being an MSer so when I stumble across them, I need to take them with both hands. I’m not sure that this qualifies as a benefit, but what the hell. I thought I’d write it anyway. I was diagnosed with MS nearly a year ...  Read the complete review

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is probably one of the most unglamorous and misunderstood diseases. It affects 85,000 people in the UK and can turn your life upside down. I have been living with the effects of MS since 1980 when my Mother was first diagnosed. MS in our family - The initial diagnosis and first real attack are a bit of blur to me, but I remember vividly the day it all sunk in and my mum told me she had been given a life expectancy of 15 - 20 years. This of course proved to be a bit off the mark, but it shows how little was known about MS 20 years ago. I would like to say that this has changed greatly since, but alas it has not. The true ...  Read the complete review