Power Stories - Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

Hi there! My name is Hannah. I am 16, and I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (Relapsing Remitting) on February 15, 2018. January 22nd was the day I first realized something was wrong. I had just gone on a run the day before, and waking up that morning was terrifying. …

A typical day in my life: Wake up, if I slept. There’s grogginess from night time meds and injections. There’s fogginess if I didn’t – what day is it, what time is it, where am I? If it’s bad enough, who am I? I figure all that out and think …

I have had MS since 2003 and stage 4 endometriosis since I was 16. I used to be a teacher for at-risk kids. It was my job to get juniors and seniors to pass the qualifying math exam for graduation. I also taught alternative school for 10 years. In 2015, I …

I was diagnosed with MS on June 17, 2013, and I thought my life as I knew it would come to a halt. But the opposite happened to me. I grew as a person. I got stronger mentally and physically. It was a Friday night, June 7th to be exact, …

My name is Tara, and I fight Multiple Sclerosis. I began having symptoms right after my son was born when I was 20. I have good days and bad, and my illness inhibits my ability to do the things I used to love. I was an athlete my whole life before …

I am an 18-year-old living in Illinois. My name is Alexus Bergen, and here is my story. I have only been living with Multiple Sclerosis for two months now, but every day seems to make it that much harder to do normal teenage things, like go for a morning run, …

I’m 22 years old, and in 2008, I was diagnosed with Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis. I went completely numb on my right side and was in the hospital for a week before they figured out what it was. Since then, I’ve have many small relapses and two major ones. One was …

Today is my nine year anniversary that I received my diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. It was a such a long journey to get to that point, taking more than ten years to figure it out. After so many years of strange happenings, it was good to get a diagnosis and …

My name is Julie and I am 32 years old. I was diagnosed with relapsing remitting MS in October of 2006. About two months before my diagnosis I began to feel tingles down my neck and spine every time I tilted my head down. I thought I had just tweaked …

How to start this? I always found  that my body never felt quite right. I always felt cold or really hot when temperatures were considered “normal” for others, so I kept going for blood tests. When the blood tests came back sound the doctors wrote me off as “whining.” So …