#healthy-living - Shift.ms

3 Dec 2012 00:24Last reply 8 Dec 2012 13:33

Dreams/Ambitions/Aspirations/Goals

I was just wondering if MS has hindered anyone from pursuing their dreams, their goals in life, their ambitions, their aspirations, or just made you rethink how you are going to get where you want to go. Or has it made you grab the bull by the horns and pursue your dreams vigorously? I have experien...

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@Kitty

10 May 2017 07:55Last reply 19 Apr 2019 00:45

Confused

Hi, so dont know what to do. Ive known about my Ms over 7 years and only had 2 relapses. Ive also only ever tried 1 drug... Avonex for 6 months and then came off it as I felt it was effecting quality of life. This week Ive found out the results to latest MRI...3 new lesions and enhancement of e...

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@domalip

23 Dec 2015 19:43Last reply 8 Jan 2016 16:58

Increasing nerve pain

Hi all, I just wanted to ask you all a quick question as its been playing on my mind and I'm not due to see my MS Dr until the new year. I had my first relapse in October 2014 which affected my lower body. After steroids it all went back to normal apart from this lingering pain around my knees. It ...

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@Jaybo78

4 Nov 2014 17:19Last reply 31 Jul 2015 05:59

Optic Neuritis recovery

Hi I managed to develop optic neuritis in my right eye at the beginning of September. Quite a long story but It started with the usual pain when moving eye, not that I knew why at the time I just thought I had bad eye strain. Well after a week I suddenly had what the optician thought was an ocular m...

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@donnahazms

23 Jul 2012 21:28Last reply 26 Jun 2013 17:47

How many of you have been deserted by their spouse or they just ignore you...

...in general? Maybe I'm being selfish, but I live in almost total silence. My husband doesn't really talk to me and seems so bitter, resentful and angry towards me. He's already had an affair and said it was because he could not handle my MS. I showed him the door and told him he's welcome to go li...

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@tigerdes

20 Jan 2015 20:51Last reply 27 Oct 2016 12:56

How Lemtrada changed my life...

I feel blessed. A strange opening sentence from an MSer but I've been very fortunate with my diagnosis and treatment. I also love this site as this was most definitely what I needed when I was first diagnosed in 2008. Unfortunately it did not exist then and my diagnosis and the following weeks were ...

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@pottypete

2 Aug 2012 22:14Last reply 5 Aug 2012 21:01

What other conditions do you have?

What else pains you? MS is bad enough, but do you have other problems that compound your problems?

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@Fi70

30 Jan 2018 08:19Last reply 11 Feb 2018 12:38

DVLA

Hello everyone I was diagnosed with MS in 2006 and only discovered in Oct 2017 that I should have informed the DVLA of my diagnosis. Anyway I dually contacted them and underwent the medical assessment (if you can call it that), anyway I have now received a letter from the DVLA informing me that t...

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@Angela351

7 Apr 2016 17:32Last reply 18 Mar 2020 10:48

MDMA made my MS go away for 5 hours

Hey all, just checking to see if anyone had the same experience. I took a small amount MDMA and I could do things I couldn't before. For about 5 hours I could stand long enough to have a conversation without having to find a seat. I could dance for an entire song. I was running up stairs and moving ...

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@Ziva

30 Apr 2014 11:00Last reply 28 May 2014 05:08

Collapse - legs won't do anything?

Hi Does anyone else have similar experience? My energy levels can feel charged and I feel strong but after a short distance say trying to take dogs out or today sorting rubbish bins out my legs cannot walk at all. Strangers have been very kind helping me get home. But I feel so stupid my mobility is...

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@melmel1

6 Jan 2019 22:13Last reply 8 Jan 2019 21:42

Relapsing or secondary?

Hey everyone needed some advice I'm 34 and seeing the doctor for first time in a week after been diagnosed , not sure if I'm relapsing or secondary reckon I've had ms 10 years and didn't know, I dnt have problems with walking ect, how do you know if your relapsing or secondary, does everyone with s...

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@jade770

30 May 2020 01:17Last reply 6 Jun 2020 12:40

I'm on the struggle bus

Sorry in advance ... I just need to vent a little and I thought this would be the right place. It's nice to have a group of people that know what you're going through. I'm seriously on the struggle bus. I've been deemed "high risk" for covid so I've been exiled from my home and banished to my nanna'...

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@MrVelocity

8 Jan 2015 18:59Last reply 10 Feb 2015 20:39

Getting a Mountain Bicycle for Exercise

I'm getting a new mountain bike on Monday to help with light exercise to start off with. I went with a mountain bike with full suspension because I have a bad back and the suspension will soak up the bumps. I haven't ridden a bicycle for almost 10 years and back then I was healthy. I use to do a pa...

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@norfolkgal

18 Mar 2013 19:03Last reply 16 Apr 2013 17:29

Hugs please

Not sure this will post well as on my tablet cause can't be bothered to go to PC. I am feeling so fedup with everything at the moment, my husband is working such long hours he is really tired so is a bit short with me.........which can't blame him for as I am even fedup with myself. I keep getting...

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@MelvieMoon

20 Oct 2019 07:48Last reply 23 Nov 2020 21:34

What lead you to your MS diagnosis?

I would like to start a thread to find out how others found out lead others to their MS diagnosis... I found out I had MS by fluke and for that I am extremely grateful! I started out with what I can only describe as ‘my own legs not feeling like my own’...I got bloods done and found out I was defici...

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@erinlidia

24 Jul 2015 16:28Last reply 11 Aug 2015 20:06

Supporting newly diagnosed boyfriend

Hi everyone :) I'm here to ask how to support someone I love more than anything. Sorry if this is long, I just want to set the stage. My boyfriend of 8 years and I moved in together a few weeks ago. It's been an awesome adventure so far, and we're so excited about the future. A few months ago, he ...

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@angelbum

8 Mar 2015 12:19Last reply 28 Mar 2015 20:03

15 to 20 years are you still walking ?

Wondered how many people are still walking without a stick or aid after 15 -20 years with ms ?

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@gpeps

14 Oct 2014 06:42Last reply 24 Nov 2014 00:06

Mission: Silence

Hi all, we're excited to announce a new fundraising campaign for Shift.ms - Mission: Silence. In short it's a 48 hour sponsored silence from 7pm on Thursday 20th November to 7pm on Saturday 22nd November. Please visit www.silence.ms to sign up or to find out more. Why a sponsored silence? 1) The...

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@Sophia25

5 Oct 2013 12:42Last reply 26 Dec 2017 21:43

Low Fat Diets for Treatment of MS!?

Hi All, I just wondered if anyone is attempting to or is controlling their MS through dietary changes?? I have been reading Roy Laver Swank and Barbara Brewer Dugans book "The Multiple Sclerosis Diet Book." The diet essentially encourages you to avoid animal fats, almost no dairy and replace it wit...

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@DJDsouza

24 Aug 2015 09:13Last reply 29 Aug 2015 15:45

I love cheese

....but I know it buggers up the limited movement i do have when walking up stairs for example. The ideal solution would be to get a place where i don't need to walk up stairs, but seems like it's a long way off sometoimes

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