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@nats1234 

24 Jun 2025 17:08Last reply 24 Jun 2025 21:09

nats1234

Hey everyone Can someone please help me . I don’t know what to do n e more .. I hate having MS .it’s destroying my life I’ve never felt this low before 😞. I feel like a failure to my kids I’m 41 and feel like am 80 normal things that mums do and I can’t it’s breaking my heart . I’m lost and stuck don’t know what to do any more

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@IrishNoodl3 

24 Jun 2025 14:50Last reply 24 Jun 2025 16:15

IrishNoodl3

is this a normal time frame?

My most recent MRI shows new lesions on my spinal cord, so I have been reffered to the MS nurse to start treatment. I asked my neurolgist "how long till i start treatment?" and she said could take a few months to a year just to get the face to face appointment with the nurse. Then depending on the t...
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@NatureDeb 

24 Jun 2025 08:38Last reply 24 Jun 2025 12:18

NatureDeb

change in MS ideas

I was diagnosed in 2006 with 'agressive' MS. I was told at the time I had the 'viking' disease (which I thought was pretty cool 🙂), told that it was people in the northern hemisphere that got it ( vit D deficiency), people from hot countries didn't-even people with darker skin didn't (&I know now ...
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@Kesha72 

24 Jun 2025 02:59Last reply 24 Jun 2025 12:23

Kesha72

MS or not?

I need other opinions only I promise I won’t take your replies as a medical diagnosis…. I had an MRI a few weeks back that showed some lesions and what my DR said was CVS. He told me he suspected MS and ordered a spinal tap which said i had ogliconal bands present and another abnormal result. My ...
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@Elvistr6 

23 Jun 2025 22:43Last reply 24 Jun 2025 09:46

Elvistr6

Sometimes we need a win

10 years after being diagnosed my neurologist shared with me that most of my lesions are either not active, have disappeared,or completely resolved. I had about 120 lesions from my brain to my spine. When I had my first flare up I was def in one ear, blind, couldn’t walk and would lose bowels. So wh...
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@Bvalen 

23 Jun 2025 22:27Last reply 24 Jun 2025 02:23

Bvalen

Hi, Im new to this. . . My name is Brenda I am 29 years old and mother

HI, Im new to this .... My name is Brenda, I am 29 years old I am a mother of three a seven year old boy, 4 year old girl and a 1 year old baby boy. I obtained my masters in social work back in 2021 but have not been able to obtained my lisvence. I to tired to study. . . I feel that all the hard wo...
San Antonio, United States
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@messy100 

23 Jun 2025 18:26

messy100

Found this MS cure being studied using micro particles not sure what to think of it?

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/articles/2024/02/tipping-the-balance-in-ms#:~:text=Although%20there%20currently%20is%20no,MS%2Dlike%20symptoms%20in%20mice.
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@Alzamora421 

23 Jun 2025 16:59

Alzamora421

Hey woman I have questions

Anyone not get there period on treatment with ocrevus I got my first 2 treatments and now I’m late which I might be late by a couple of days but never this long
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@avic 

23 Jun 2025 15:56Last reply 23 Jun 2025 21:32

avic

When do you mark the anniversary?

For those of you that mark the anniversary of your MS, do you count your official diagnosis date or go from your first symptoms? I had my first relapse last year in July, I was initially told it could be MS then, but later told by a neurologist it was unlikely until I had a few more relapses and ...
Broomfield, United Kingdom
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@dcgreen714 

23 Jun 2025 14:29 EditedLast reply 24 Jun 2025 17:18

dcgreen714

Hello

Hi everyone, I’m new here 👋 I was diagnosed in December 2024, my first symptom was numbness in my legs back in 2021-22, then optic neuritis in 2023 had landed me in the hospital and so began my MS journey. During that time I was just a few wks shy of moving from upstate NY to the UK for school - it...
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