January 25, 2023 Columns by Beth Ullah MS cognitive fog is the hardest symptom for me to accept āYou only begin to grasp the import of an event ā and its larger implications vis-Ć -vis your life ā long after it has entered into that realm marked āmemory.’ā ā Douglas Kennedy, “The Moment“ I am reading my first book since multiple sclerosis (MS) fatigueĀ reared its…
April 29, 2022 Columns by Ed Tobias Remembering My First MS Symptom What was your first MS symptom? Mine ā the one that made me realize something was really wrong ā was my inability to squeeze the toothpaste tube with my left hand one morning. Of course, there were earlier hints of trouble. I was unusually tired while attending a business…
March 8, 2021 Columns by Ed Tobias MS News That Caught My Eye Last Week: COVID-19 Vaccines, Benign and Aggressive MS, Cog Fog, Diet All of the stories this week are from the ACTRIMS 2021 Forum, an MS research conference held virtually Feb. 25ā27. #ACTRIMS2021 ā COVID-19 Vaccines Safe for MS Patients, Minimally Affected by DMTs My wife and I received the second shot of the Moderna vaccine last week. (You can read…
October 22, 2020 Columns by Jennifer (Jenn) Powell Learning to Navigate Cog Fog The cog fog (cognitive fog) is thick and heavy. I cannot seem to extract words from the alphabet soup that fills my head. This is torturous for a self-described word nerd. And as my MS progresses, so does the fog. Slowed cognition has become one of the most…
January 25, 2018 Columns by Jennifer (Jenn) Powell Coming out of the Cog Fog I am watching the computer curser taunt my inability to collect my thoughts. Three days out of chemotherapy, my brain is more fried than usual, the fog thick and dense. For those unfamiliar with cog fog (cognitive fog), it is a clouding…
April 13, 2017 Columns by Tamara Sellman The MS Alphabet: CIS, Copaxone, Contracture and More ‘C’ Terms (Editor’s note: Tamara Sellman continues her occasional series on the MS alphabet with this secondĀ of three partsĀ on terms starting with the letter “C.”) When it comes to multiple sclerosis, mastering an understanding of the disease means you need to mind your Ps and Qs, dot your Is, cross your Ts,…