From our MS patients and their families.
They told me secondary progressive MS does not respond to treatment, and I had accepted that. A year on, my balance improved enough that I stopped using the walker indoors and I cook for myself again. My physiotherapist in Turin measured my gait speed going up for the first time in four years.
Fourteen months without a relapse. Before, they came every three or four months. The heaviness in my legs lifted and I am back to walking the dog in the morning. My neurologist confirmed the inflammatory activity has calmed considerably.
The fatigue was the worst part — completely drained by noon, impossible to work or parent properly. That changed gradually. I get through the full day now, my concentration came back, and I finished a work project I had abandoned months earlier.
My wife needed help getting dressed. After the programme she started managing on her own again. The numbness in her hands faded and her grip came back. She says her legs feel like they belong to her again.
We did the programme with Mum even though she could not travel far. Her speech became clearer, she started remembering our phone conversations, and the tremor in her right hand reduced. Last month she called to say she had been to the market alone.
I was honest with myself that MS does not simply go away. But two years on the relapses have stayed away, my vision is steadier and I have gone back to teaching part-time. They were straight with me about what was realistic.
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