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  • About [updated]
  • History of MS
  • A to Z of MS
  • MS Explained
    • Why Multiple Sclerosis Is So Difficult to Diagnose
    • What is MS?
    • The Effects of Multiple Sclerosis on Your Body
    • How MS Affects Brain Cells
    • What causes MS?
    • Types of MS
    • Updated McDonald Criteria (2017)
    • Immune System
      • What is an immune-mediated disease?
      • BiteSized Immunology
    • Central Nervous System
    • CNS (videos)
  • MS Symptoms
    • Early signs of MS
    • 16 Early Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis
    • MS & Sleep
    • Cognition
    • Multiple Sclerosis and Memory Loss
    • Sensory Symptoms
    • Pain, the basic facts
    • What is pain & how do you rate it?
    • Trigeminal Neuralgia
      • Detailed Trigeminal Neuralgia info
      • Trigeminal Neuralgia Infochart
      • Trigeminal Neuralgia – MedlinePlus
      • Understanding Trigeminal Neuralgia
    • Emotional changes in people with MS
      • MS and Mental Health: Depression, Anxiety and Pseudobulbar Affect (Johns Hopkins)
    • What if it’s not MS
      • Do I Have Multiple Sclerosis or Another Disease?
      • The difference between fibromyalgia and MS
      • The difference between ALS and MS
    • Reading Healthcare: A Medical Terminology Study Guide for Patients, Students and Professionals
  • Managing MS
    • Symptom Management
    • What is an MS relapse?
      • Managing Relapses (US National MS Society)
      • Managing Relapses (MS Trust)
    • Managing MS fatigue
      • The Spoon Theory
    • Pain management
    • Preparing for your neurologist appointment
    • Here’s What to Ask Your Doctor About Multiple Sclerosis
    • A Look at Your Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Plan
    • 40 Self-care strategies
  • MS Treatments
    • Medications List
    • Alternative Treatments
      • Healthy eating
      • Vitamins, Minerals, and Herbs in MS
      • Vitamin D info
      • Vitamins, supplements & MS: research
      • Complementary Health Approaches for MS
      • Complementary & Alternative Medicines
      • Medical Marijuana
      • Evidence-based guideline: Complementary and alternative medicine in MS
  • Research & Clinical Trials
    • Current clinical trials – Ireland
    • Current clinical trials – UK
    • Current clinical trials – globally
    • Understanding clinical trials
    • How Do New Medicines Get Approved?
    • Latest Research
    • RESEARCH NEWS – MS IRELAND
    • Research eZine, by MS Ireland
  • Health Organisations – Ireland
  • To update 2025 – Mental Health Ireland
  • Useful Resources
    • MS Societies around the World
    • Disability websites
    • General websites
    • Medical Websites
    • MS Organisations
    • Neurology (Research)
  • My Journey
    • General
      • Media, stop calling it a cure when it’s not even clinically trialled yet!
      • Oh, media, when will you ever learn? Stop calling it a cure!
    • Newly diagnosed
      • Blurred notes to self
      • The first day
      • It’s OK not to be OK
      • I am not my brain
      • Making sense of MS
      • The road to diagnosis
    • Disease-Modifying Treatments
      • 3443 Needles
      • Starting over
      • Injecting object
      • What a difference a needle makes
    • Living with Trigeminal Neuralgia
      • No-wrinkle multiple sclerosis
      • Where is my left cheek?!
      • The five-second MS rant
      • Not my face!
      • No end to trigeminal neuralgia
      • I’m an ex and I’m lovin’ it!
      • Why I love advocacy!
      • 10 years: a lot to be thankful for
      • How (not to) be sick!
      • A future without chronic illness
      • Medical terminology?
      • MRI scans, hope or defeat
      • The MS blame game
      • MS: a social disconnect
      • Then & now
      • What we refuse to discuss
      • What you might not be aware of
    • Fatigue
      • The truth about Cinderella
      • Sleep: a time-consuming commodity
      • Time to recharge
      • Tiredness ≠ fatigue
    • Emotional Health
      • MS and PTSD: not all in your head
      • Body image and MS: how many selfies do you have?
      • Happiness and MS
      • Things that make you love and hate MS resolutions
      • Bliss, the MS-way
      • Depression?
      • I don’t miss myself
      • I’m only human
      • Mortality
      • Peak moments!
      • Resilience
      • Magnetic voices
    • Hyperacusis | Sound sensitivity | Noise sensitivity
      • Noise sensitivity in MS: Turn off your voice!
      • When life with MS is like The Clash’s ‘Should I stay or should I go’
    • That ignorance!
      • MS Anxiety
      • Defined by myself
      • Dissecting words
      • Ignorance
      • Pull up your big girl panties!
    • Optimism
      • The duality of MS
      • I am not my brain
      • You will survive!
      • What singing taught me about life with MS
      • Branded!
      • Do I have stupid written on my forehead?
      • Fake it ’til you make it!
      • Giving up is not an option
      • How far do baby germs fly?
      • Life begins at the end of your comfort zone
      • Life’s meant to be…
      • The day I stopped being weak
      • Man up!
      • Now what?!
      • Paper dreams
      • Waiting
      • What about it?
      • Why I should be a brainiac, but I’m not
      • You will survive!
    • Relationships/Friendships
      • Body image and MS, fake or not
      • Hell is other people
      • MS and single on Valentine’s Day?
      • MS + single on Valentine’s Day?
      • Kids? Not right now, please…
      • Philosophy of Friendship
      • Single life!
    • MS Relapses / Flare-ups
      • Game, set, relapse!
      • Relapse!
      • Relentless relapse
    • Heat sensitivity / Uhthoff’s Symptoms
      • About Vikings, Vitamin D and multiple sclerosis!
      • Heat sensitivity and MS?
      • Too hot for you? Heat sensitivity explained!
      • The duplicity of MS
      • Every leaf speaks bliss to me
      • Hot town!
      • That thing people call ‘summer’
    • Other symptoms
      • Sensory MS symptoms: The hair that isn’t there
      • You retired at age what?
      • Mental or physical, your choice
      • Silver Linings
      • The social swing of life
      • Jammed filter!
      • Wheelchair?
    • Optic Neuritis
      • Eyes of sorrow
      • Fourteen MS years and counting
    • Ireland
      • Paper dreams
      • The Celtic Tree of Life… sort of!
      • Why Ireland?
      • Ireland, a love story
      • Dublin: a state of mind
      • Back to Ireland
      • Photography
        • Famine
        • Caged
        • An Irish General… and me
        • Irish Selfie
  • Top Posts
  • 🎀 3443 Needles (Winner Ireland Blog Awards 2018) 🎀
  • Blog Awards
  • MS Trust DMT Decisions Aid
  • [NEW] 45 Best Multiple Sclerosis Blogs and Websites in 2025
  • [NEW] Your Everyday Guide To Living Well With Multiple Sclerosis
  • [NEW] 7 Common Complications of MS
  • [NEW] What’s New in MS Research in 2025
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