MS Community and Relationships
Living with multiple sclerosis can feel isolating, but no one should face it alone. This category explores the power of connection—through family, friends, carers, support groups, and the wider MS community. From maintaining relationships to finding new ways to bond, these posts share real-life experiences, practical tips, and emotional insights into the importance of support networks when living with MS. Whether you’re seeking encouragement, advice, or just reassurance that others understand your journey, you’ll find comfort and solidarity here.
The invisible symptoms of MS are often harder to bear than the visible ones. Fatigue, dizziness, cognitive fog, and sensory changes may leave no outward trace, yet they shape daily life in profound ways. This post explores the hidden struggles of multiple sclerosis through expert insight, practical strategies, and a fable — The Frog Who Fakes It — which reveals the courage it takes to live honestly with an unseen illness.
Life with multiple sclerosis is rarely straightforward. Fluctuating symptoms in MS can make one day feel manageable and the next overwhelming. This post explores why good days and bad days happen, how symptom flares affect daily life, and what strategies can help you adapt to this unpredictable illness
Even the strongest need support. In this fable of the lion and the listening mouse, we explore how MS support systems — from peer support to patient advocacy — can lighten burdens and improve lives today for people living with multiple sclerosis.
Energy management MS is like the tortoise’s time budget—slow, steady, and wise. By using pacing methods, task prioritisation, fatigue prevention, and activity planning, you can stretch limited energy further and create balance in daily life.
MS balance problems can feel like walking in circles – dizziness, vertigo, and walking instability disrupt daily life. This fable, The Map That Drew Itself in Circles, shares practical strategies to improve safety, conserve energy, and regain confidence with an individualised approach.
MS memory loss can feel like sailing through fog, where familiar details slip out of reach. From forgetfulness and recall difficulty to information loss and unpredictable memory lapses, people with multiple sclerosis often face cognitive challenges that reshape daily life. With strategies, support, and shared wisdom, it is possible to steer a steady course through the fog of forgetfulness.
When the body forgets to lift the foot, every step can feel like a trip waiting to happen. This fable of the chair that forgot its place reflects the challenge of foot drop in multiple sclerosis — a symptom that causes stumbling, fatigue, and fear of falling, yet can be managed with support, exercises, and creative adjustments.
Sleep problems MS can feel like a storm that never fully passes — restless nights, sudden awakenings, and poor sleep quality that leaves mornings heavier than nights. Common in people with multiple sclerosis, these hidden struggles affect quality of life independent of other symptoms, yet with the right strategies, routines, and support, it is possible to find calmer nights and more restorative rest.
MS time perception reshapes how moments are lived — stretching minutes, erasing hours, and leaving memories untethered. Through fables, science, and lived experience, this article explores temporal distortion in multiple sclerosis and offers ways to adapt with patience, routines, and resilience.
Lhermitte’s Sign feels like an electric short-circuit running down your spine — sudden, sharp, and impossible to ignore. It’s one of MS’s more dramatic calling cards, but also one of the most misunderstood. In this post, we explore what causes the jolt, how to manage it, and why a bent neck can feel like flipping a faulty switch.