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@jumpingJacks 

27 Feb 2025 21:22 Edited

jumpingJacks

No, Your Self-Diagnosed Trauma Didn't Cause It"

Of course your past or current mental trauma caused MS. clearly your mind is powerful and grabbed a chisel to your brain, carving out lesions like a deranged sculptor. Yes this makes perfect sense!. Maybe overthinking also breaks bones Meh It's a physical condition, caused by "Light bulb moment" ac...
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@supermum1983 

20 Jul 2024 18:48 EditedLast reply 20 Jul 2024 19:30

supermum1983

Dealing With Burnout

If anyone has any tips please share, I had to book sometime off work because something had to give,and thee kids break up soon (yay) All little things can add up, I think learning to say no more will help me difficult though.
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@Schwalbe 

6 Feb 2024 15:11Last reply 7 Feb 2024 13:27

Schwalbe

Potential partner is scared of catching feelings

I spent a lot of time with a woman for just over a year. Our relationship morphed through a friendship, to dating, to something in between. We are very close, she might be my deepest friend by now. I love her, and she knows it. Yesterday, she told me that she can see a future with me, BUT she is sca...
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@NatalieNoor 

8 Oct 2022 20:41Last reply 9 Oct 2022 11:17

NatalieNoor

How long to stabilise?

Hi guys! I was diagnosed with ms this late march, began meds late may, and since my recent mri late sept it shows an old but new lesions caused likely before June/ or even before commending meds itself. I’m interested to know how long it took others to stabilise, either with meds, and by other mean...
Perth, Australia
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@anthonyghantous 

7 Sep 2022 21:46 EditedLast reply 8 Sep 2022 00:37

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Diagnosis, relationship, break-up, rant, etc...

I recently went through a #breakup after a 3-year long #relationship. I think my diagnosis hit my partner really hard... harder than it hit me. She didn’t know how to deal with the sadness I was feeling for almost a year. She really wanted to help she really wanted to be there for me but didn’t know...
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@NatalieNoor 

10 Jul 2022 19:49Last reply 10 Jul 2022 21:00

NatalieNoor

Anyone using Ayurveda for stress / their ms?

Hi! Recently explored a course of punchakarma (Ayurvedic detox treatment) as it helps to release stress, Indian doc recommends I do a short detox every change of season (four times a year). Just wondering if anyone else has, and or how they found it? I did a nine day course which seems to have remov...
Sydney, Australia
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@NatalieNoor 

10 Jul 2022 19:49

NatalieNoor

Anyone using Ayurveda for stress / their ms?

Hi! Recently explored a course of punchakarma (Ayurvedic detox treatment) as it helps to release stress, Indian doc recommends I do a short detox every change of season (four times a year). Just wondering if anyone else has, and or how they found it? I did a nine day course which seems to have remov...
Sydney, Australia
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@Moglula 

13 Jul 2020 16:42Last reply 28 Jul 2020 15:03

Moglula

Started Copaxone - tips from MS Nurse!

I’ve just started Copaxone and did my first injection with the MS Nurse a few days ago. I just wanted to share some of the advice she gave me in case it’s of use to anyone else, as some of it I hadn’t seen mentioned before. Firstly, she said she doesn’t like the CSYNC autoinjector because it leave...
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@Michelle_Burgos 

22 May 2019 16:31Last reply 23 May 2019 17:18

Michelle_Burgos

Lonliness witb MS

I never thought that loneliness could have gotten worse but then i was diagnosed with MS in 2016. I have had 4 boyfriends breakup with me because of it. Stated tbey can not handle the changes. I have alsways been up front and honest with men when dating but dating in it self is hell. It's hard enoug...
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@FXMS 

7 Nov 2018 06:05Last reply 14 Nov 2018 05:49

FXMS

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Hello Shift.MSers. I was diagnosed with early PPMS (male, 28) in july, 4 months after breaking up with someone I still love. The break up was slow, painful, emotionally violent. Today I went for a drink with this person, mostly to share my MS diagnosis and my treatment plan with a newly approved...
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