Specialised medical websites
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MS Societies around the World
Oops… We can’t find the page you’re looking for. Maybe this page might help? MS Societies around the World (2018) Or, why not travel around IMSM with me by visiting these pages? A powerful letter to my MS Do I have stupid written on my forehead? MS anxiety I’m an ex and I’m loving it! You will survive! Responsibility hurts Ignorance Let’s be frank Fake it ’til you make it Use it or lose it! Are you getting enough? Hope cures old wounds The five-second MS rant Paper dreams Books, great medicine! MS, a lesson in minimalism Death, a fearful thing Balancing life and a chronic illness My brother See you there! Willeke-Maya ©Willeke Van Eeckhoutte and Ireland, Multiple Sclerosis & Me
Wheelchair?
Wondering if you’ll make it down the staircase, you go back to bed. Your gut tells you this is not right, something is just not right inside. Work needs to be informed. Will you even make it to work?
Types of MS
Doctors divide the symptoms into three groups: primary, secondary, and tertiary. Primary symptoms come from damage to the protective sheath around the nerves in your spine or brain. The damage is called demyelination. It causes scarring, which makes it harder for signals to travel between the brain and the body. This process can lead to bladder or bowel problems, loss of balance, numbness, paralysis, tingling, tremors, vision problems, or weakness. Medicine, rehabilitation, and other treatments can keep many of these problems under control.
My brother and The Camino
I usually don’t reblog posts, but this one is special as it regards the brother of a friend of mine. Martin will be walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela to raise funds for the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Ireland. Declan and myself are lifetime members of MS Ireland and you know how much I’ve written about them in the past. It’s an absolutely astonishing society who does the utmost for people and family members of those with MS. Through my advocating with and for them, I see the efforts they make to try to help everyone affected, but having budget cuts year after year, the society can’t do everything they would love to do. I would therefore absolutely love it if anyone would want to sponsor Martin Groeger. To…
10 bold myths about MS
Multiple sclerosis is an illness subject to many myths that turn out to be misconceptions believed by far too many. When you scratch the surface, you find stubborn tales that create unnecessary anxiety and sleepless nights for those living with the illness. So let’s just throw some of the many misconceptions out the door, shall we?
That twitching feeling
"Suffice to say that the type that I have, is stimulus-sensitive and is triggered by a variety of external events, including sound, touch, movement, and light. Just like MS’s unpredictability in general, myoclonus can vary in intensity as well as in frequency, and it cannot be controlled by the one experiencing it."