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The MS Wire is shifting gears

Gear shift

As some of you may know, after more than seven years of writing the MS Wire column for MS News Today I am no longer writing for that website. As I admitted in my final column last Friday, “writing a couple of columns almost every week, under a deadline, has taken its toll on my energy, and sometimes on my mood. It’s time to back off a bit.” Much of…Continue Reading

Really tired? Most People With MS Are

really tired

Are you tired? Really tired? Me, too. Most of us with multiple sclerosis are. How many really tired people is most? A small new study of 44 people with one of the progressive forms of MS found the answer is a little over 86%. (I’m surprised the number isn’t higher.) Those people described their fatigue as “tired,” “exhausted,” “wiped out” and having “little or no energy.” Half of patients reported…Continue Reading