About MS
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurological condition - that means it affects your nerves. You get it when your immune system isn’t working properly.
Your immune system normally protects you by fighting off infection, but in MS it attacks your nerves by mistake. Your nerves control lots of different parts of your body. That’s why you can get MS symptoms in many parts of your body. It’s also why everyone’s MS is different.
Once diagnosed, MS stays with you for life, but treatments and specialists can help you to manage the condition and its symptoms. We're here to help you live well with your MS and fund research to stop MS for good.
Find out more about MS
We’re here for you
Navigating and coming to terms with an MS diagnosis can be hard. Our MS Help service is here with trusted information and personalised support to help you navigate every step of the way.
We’re making it easier for you to navigate living with MS by putting all the information and resources you need in one place. So you can understand and manage MS, live well and stay connected.
You can contact us by phone, email, on social media or through our new webchat facility. So now it’s easier than ever to access the support you need, when and how you need it.
Speak to someone who knows relapsing MS
Our free MS Help service is here for everyone living with MS. We're here to help you understand and manage MS, with information you can trust. We can help you to live well, with personalised support for everyday needs. And we can help you to stay connected and build your community, with our regional and national networks.
We’re making it easier for you to navigate living with MS by putting all the information and resources you need in one place. You can contact us by phone, email, on social media or through our new webchat facility. So now it’s easier than ever to access the support you need, when and how you need it.
Get support with secondary progressive MS
Our free MS Help service is here support you navigating secondary progressive MS.
We're a mix of paid staff and volunteers, MS nurses, benefits and legal specialists, health and social care and fitness experts. With trusted information and personalised support, we’re here to help you manage and understand MS, live well and stay connected.
You can contact us by phone, email, on social media or through our new webchat facility. So now it’s easier than ever to access the support you need, when and how you need it.
Get support with primary progressive MS
Our free MS Help service is here support you navigating primary progressive MS.
We're a mix of paid staff and volunteers, MS nurses, benefits and legal specialists, health and social care and fitness experts. With information you can trust and personalised support, we’re here to help you manage and understand MS, live well and stay connected.
You can contact us by phone, email, on social media or through our new webchat facility. So now it’s easier than ever to access the support you need, when and how you need it.
Get support as a friend, family member or carer
Supporting someone with MS can be lonely. Our MS Help services are here for everyone affected by MS, including friends and family. Visit our MS Help Hub and find out about the services we offer and information and support we can provide.
We’re here to help everyone understand and manage the complexities of MS. To help you live well with every day support. And stay connected through our national and local networks, online and in person.
You can reach us by phone, email or start a conversation wherever you see the webchat icon.
Speak to someone who knows MS
Our free MS Help services are here for everyone affected by MS.
We can provide trusted information so you can understand and manage MS. Personalised support and guidance for everyday living so you can live well. And help you connect with others by finding, growing and maintaining your MS community, in person and online.
You can talk to us in confidence by phone or our new webchat facility from 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday (except bank holidays) and email us any time. Explore our services or start a conversation by visiting our MS Help Hub.
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When I was diagnosed with MS, it was hard adapting to sometimes accepting help. I've come to realise accepting help from others doesn't mean we're not strong. MS makes us stronger than we ever thought possible.
MS is different for everyone. And I can honestly say it got easier when I understood my symptoms.
I’ve had to change as my condition has changed. But I haven’t had to give up on most things, I have just done it differently and learnt.
MS is part of who I am. It’s not all I am. On balance, I think having MS has made me a more reflective, creative person than I realised I could be – and this definitely feels like a silver lining!
When it comes to supporting my wife with MS, I’m not consciously trying to be anything other than there for her. She’s the person I love, and I just want to make her happy.
I always wake up and think about the fact that I can go to work today and I could make a difference. I want our treatments for people with MS to be better than yesterday.
My experiences meeting and speaking to people living with MS have pushed me to make an impact, no matter how big or small, for people living with MS.
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