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‘I thought I was tired, busy and stressed. I had Multiple Sclerosis’


by Amy Lynch
21st Oct 2022

Nadia was busy in work and stressed. She was tired all the time and noticed she had lost weight. Doctors said she had a viral infection. Soon after she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). She talks to us about telling her partner, being pregnant with MS, her anger and why it’s not as scary as you might think.

For Nadia, it all started in 2015 when she was 35. She noticed numbness, tingling in the fingers and fatigue. “I was really busy at work and just kept putting it down to being busy, stressed.”  Nadia also noticed she had lost weight. She visited her doctor a few times, but was told that she had a viral infection. Nadia had no idea that these were the first steps on her MS journey. Nadia: “Being...

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