Living with MS (Multiple Sclerosis) - My Perspective

At age 21 I became mysteriously ill, 6 months and numerous tests later I was diagnosed with MS (Multiple Sclerosis). What began simply as pins and needles, spread throughout my body evolving in severity and eventually leading to numbness and issues with my mobility. My video piece recounts the early stages of my illness, its progression and my light-hearted, perhaps somewhat naïve way of dealing with it. Other than day-to-day struggles that affect all MS sufferers, this video piece explores my own struggle in trying to hold onto a sense of myself, my personality and my humour.

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[nelliemuller]

I would like to thank you for sharing this video so I can learn what's it like to live with the disease. I wish a cure will be found in the very very near future so you and others will look back and forget that you ever had it.

[pinkjessuk85]

@nelliemuller i think there will def be a cure within our lifetime.. i just hope they speed things up a little

[GiRTheDuck]

I fear I may be diagnosed with MS soon as I seem to have a neurological problem that the doctors have not been able to sort out yet. I am due for am MRI scan soon and im suffering alot of weird symptoms including unexplained pins and needles. Should I be worried you think?

[pinkjessuk85]

@GiRTheDuck Hey no problems, whatever happens in life happens but worrying never solved anything and to be honest worrying/stress just seems to make stuff worse. So take it in your stride, there are worse things out there than MS and i really do feel it will be cured within our lifetimes. My advice is don't let it change you, or define who you are.

[Dawsomeville]

Nice video. It made me cry, but I really liked it. :)

[wierdbill]

1 dislike? You must truly be a dispicable person for dislikeing something truly beautiful. :(

[MrMusicomposer]

Beautiful video.

[ColoriProductions]

What annoys me about life, is that things like this always happen to people who deserve them least. Why do good people have health problems, and bad people get to live in perfect health? Such as the injustice of life I suppose.

[highdreems]

@GiRTheDuck hi GiRTheDuck I don't the that you have to be afraid too much if you don't understandn your problem very will. buecous if yo did you may have it as long as your brain is saying I have MS it may happened even if you don't realy have it .And I know alot of people whom happend to them the same as this ,I mean to believe that they have a kind of disease while thay are not and then it happend.

and sorry for my bad explanation and writing becaose I don't know english very will

[teslagirlM]

BRAVA!!!!!! SO WELL DONE. THE DROPPING THINGS PART MADE ME LAUGH SO HARD. WE HAVE A LOT IN COMMON. ALL THE BEST FOR 2012. :)

[RaeDarrable]

This could have been a video of my life with MS. It was eerily similar. I'm 29, been on C for 6 years. I had several disabling attacks during my early years including the right arm (5 year old hand writing at best). Today most of my symptoms are invisible so thanks for explaining MS life with a sharable video.

[dunkycraig]

Hi cracking video, i have had a spinal problem and nerve damage for 14 years now. yet within the last six months i have developed constant tingling/pins and needles in both hands and forearms along with crawling ant feeling over most of my body, im constantly tierd and lose vision though not for long. Parts of my face go numb and tops of my thighs go numb tingle cold and lose strength. pins and needles in patches down my lower leg also short term memory loss and at times slurred speech. HELP!!!

[heavenlydove1920]

Very well put-together video. I have MS 16 years, now SPMS - more mobility problems than you, and I can relate.

[sleekcartim]

good job! that was some work for an ms gal. hope you are doing well