Survivor Stories & Information

The First Signs On Thursday, August 26, 2004, I woke up with a slight pain above my right eyelid along with blurriness in my right eye and a headache. I called my family doctor and he told me if it wasn’t better by Friday to call back. When he called …

I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis the day before Thanksgiving in 2007. I’m pretty sure I’ve had this disease years before that. The first signs were small, like sleepiness to pain in the back of my head and progressed from there. I have to fight everyday to get up and …

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 …