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@Charchar38 

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Having a toddler

Anyone else a single mum to a wild toddler and battling hellish fatigue, struggling with walking and just general MS bullshit?? Any help or tips please xx
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@Bronwyn_Garrett 

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ocrevus and toddler bugs

Hi, I'm looking at starting on ocrevus and wondering if anyone has experience of taking it with germy small people in their life. I've been on brabio for years and my ms is not very active, but I'm starting to think about avoiding long term disability and the brabio injections have left me with dent...
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@runak 

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After taking my almost 2 years old from his crib, my shoulder and back got crazy stabbing pain, I feel like hot pain, and I could not move at all. Not even breathing. I am not sure is this happen because I carry him in a wrong way to it is MS. I got diagnosed in 2013 after I had double vision. Since then I didn’t took any medication. I had another attack on 2018 but I had no symptoms. I am so afraid of this new MS attack. I have little toddlers I have to take care of them :(. How is MS pain?

Alexandria, United States
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@EllieBo92 

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Recently diagnosed

Hi, I'm very newly diagnosed (may 2022) aged 30..although i knew myself for over a ywar from my first major symptom. I've been on tecfidera for 6 weeks now (full dose 2 weeks) i havent been too bad on it in terma of side effects but I'm petrified to have a night out on it 👀 i have my sisters hen we...
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@Charlene124 

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Feeling lonely with MS

I've been swimming down that river called denial. I was diagnosed in March. And not coping very well. Only my boss and a work bestie knows of my diagnosis. My family don't check in on me since they were told, my two friends i do have don't even ask about it anymore. My partner doesn't seem to a...
, United Kingdom
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@05Kubann 

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Mental health

Really struggling to accept this and I live in denial but my body always reminds me it’s there (numbness, heaviness, tingling, buzzing) how can I even attempt to accept this? I feel so down and low all of the time. I can’t enjoy anything in life at the moment which sucks as I have highly active MS a...
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@twinmummy 

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On the precipice

Hello. Newbie here so apologies if my post is a rambling mess. After developing a facial droop on the May bank holiday, I've gone on to have progressive numbness in my left hand and now arm. I saw the neurologist on Friday and he thinks he can see something on the ct so has referred me for an urgent...
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@courtney_xo 

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Newly diagnosed and feeling in limbo

So my mri results came back with lesions to the neck spine and brain I was referred to one of the top neurologists for ms here in Northern Ireland, but I feel like I’m in limbo,the supposed wait is 70 WEEKS! new symptoms come and go but most recently I’ve developed a limp and my foot is agonising to...
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@HopeMiller 

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Anybody else's partners not empathetic about their MS diagnosis?

Woke up with a flair this morning my toddler has been up since 4am told my partner that I'm in a lot of pain in the right hand side lots of numbness and pins and needles. He told me to be a better mom but I'm trying the best I can I never asked for this multiple sclerosis. The feeling of invalidatio...
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@lemtrada-uk 

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Lemtrada- being patient

Ive had my first course of lemtrada this summer. Its been 3 months post treatment & I can certainly notice an improvement in some symptoms. Certain symptoms have had a massive improvement, certain others have only been a marginal improvement whilst the rest of my symptoms have seen no change. I...
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