Community blogs

Like many of us with MS, I had a lot of questions about COVID-19 vaccines. I ended up deciding to get the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine and wanted to share a bit about how it went.

I recently finished a doctorate in creative writing. It explores the relationship between object and illness, with specific reference to multiple sclerosis.

In 2019 I wrote a blog about how disposable and convenient it was to introduce my MS illness of almost 40 years into a made-for-tv storyline...

Last year our Lanarkshire Project offered a range of support to people in the area living with MS. Laura, a member of our Lanarkshire group, shares her experiences of peer support. Any why she now volunteers to host Time to Chat sessions for people in Lanarkshire.

6 November 2019 was quite a bad day. First, I was staying away from home and woke up to realise I hadn’t packed a clean pair of pants so had to just invert yesterday’s set. And second, at four thirty that afternoon I was diagnosed with MS. The pants incident seemed small fry by five.

Dan, who lives with MS, talks us through his experience of getting the vaccine.

For the first time in four years, I will be single on Valentine’s Day…It feels great!

In the community we regularly talk about fatigue management, bowel troubles and disease modifying therapies (DMTs). But we rarely, if ever, dip our toes into the topic of sex.

Love can be beautiful, but it can also be hard at times - especially when you're trying to explain something that is potentially invisible or difficult to talk about. MS doesn't always make things easy.

For Time to Talk day, our Support and Wellbeing Facilitator Barbara Sujecka shares some top tips.

Jordan, who works for Diageo, explains why he’s been fundraising for the MS Society since he was in school.

I’ve been thinking and I’ve realised what lockdown has done for me. It’s given me freedom. Freedom from my social anxieties, but also the freedom to live how I like to live, without the guilt that I’m not doing it right.

A defining moment in my early years trying to establish a relationship with MS came right out of left field.

My husband Matthew was born profoundly Deaf and communicates by British Sign Language – BSL. Growing up, he experienced fatigue and loss of sensation amongst other problems.

Our MS Helpline nurses answer your questions about staying as safe as you can this Christmas.

This year, as I write, I realise what an undertaking it is to round up 2020 in an end of year blog.

As the year draws to a close, Nick reflects on all we’ve achieved together in 2020.

This one’s going to be tough. I want to confront a topic that has slowly but steadily invaded my mind and now occupies dark corners of my self-image, my confidence, and my sense of, well, ‘me’. Does my partner consider himself to be my carer?

One in five people diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in the UK is now under the age of 30.

I live with secondary progressive MS, after being first diagnosed with relapsing MS in 1994, aged 37.