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Women MSers - what are your unmet needs? 🤔

In anticipation of our brand new Women & MS video series (launching later in the autumn. Watch. This. Space), we’re taking the needs of female MSers directly to healthcare professionals next month at ECTRIMS, Europe’s biggest MS conference. We’ve already had an amazing response to two previous Wome...

What is the biggest unmet need for women with MS in 2023?

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Women MSers, let us know what you think! 🤔

We're partnering with @rachelhorne - prominent journalist, researcher and founder of the Rachel Horne Prize for Women's Research in MS - on a new video series about women's health and MS. Together, we want to know more about your experience of discussing women's health questions with your MS team. ...

Do you feel confident talking to MS healthcare professionals about, possibly uncomfortable, women's health issues such as menstruation, contraception, sex, pregnancy and/or menopause? Whether you agree, disagree or have a lot more to say on the subject, please tell us your story in the comments below 👇

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Women with MS: a question for you 📝

Misdiagnosis is pretty common among us MSers since MS symptoms can mimc other conditions. Interestingly, the Multiple Sclerosis In America 2019 survey showed that women are MORE likely to be misdiagnosed so we wanted to get your thoughts below 👇 P.S. Share your stories in the comments below 💬 Yo...

Were you initially misdiagnosed before your MS diagnosis?

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@rachelhorne 

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Excited to be partnering with Shift on women's health/MS

Hi, I'm absolutely thrilled to be partnering with Shift.ms on a new video series about women with MS & how best to manage the challenges of menstruation, contraception, pregnancy & menopause - while also managing the disease. A bit about me: I was diagnosed with RRMS in 2009 - the year Shift.ms ...
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@Safra_Iqbal 

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Can women with ms get pregnant

I was told women with ms can get pregnant and their is no difference of it. But what are the chances of a woman living with ms former than 11 years being conceived is she has her ms completely under control? When I was diagnosed at a young age and learnt about the sickness my only wish was to have ...
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@estherforeman 

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Looking for Professional Women with MS

Hi, I am a female professional at a senior leadership position and I am looking for other women with MS in professional leadership roles who I can talk to. I have often had to hide the effects of MS from clients, struggle out of bed and find all sorts of tricks to keep my memory from failing, whil...
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@Mrskennedy 

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Multivitamin for women

Hey,looking for a good multivitamin for women with MS, needing folic acid and copper hopefully or good brands for all of it that hopefully don't break the bank. I have the only gummy multivitamin but I don't know if I trust that gummies are fully effective at least for me so seeing what else people ...
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@Kellsgough 

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Ms symptoms

Has any women with ms ever had any top of problem with a 2 weeks before there lady time there muscles start to burn and ache more than ever? You come on you're lady time then it goes? For 2 weeks of every month I'm in absolute agony. Many thanks
Birmingham, United Kingdom
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@rachael30f 

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ms and sex and woman

One of the main sexual issues for women with MS is being less able to orgasm. While there is currently no medication to fix this, there are things you can do to help. Many women find that they can still have orgasms, it just takes longer and can need more stimulation.
Dublin, Ireland
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@Mandy13 

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Need a woman’s point of veiw

Hi guys so just a question for women with ms that may have already been through this. Plus I’m scared shitless I am going for surgery to have my womb Lazard .so I guess the question is if anyone had this how was it how was you after and how was the ms symptoms before and after being knocked out . An...
Ballymena, United Kingdom
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