September 15, 2016 Columns by Ed Tobias MS and the Shingles Vaccine: Can They Go Together? A post on another website, asking about whether it was wise for someone with Multiple Sclerosis to receive the shingles vaccine, caught my attention the other day. “Have any of you had the Shingles vaccine? I’m…
September 13, 2016 Columns by Ed Tobias 7 Marathons on 7 Continents for MS Runner Tripping, falling and bloody knees. Been there. Done that. (Who with MS hasn’t)? But this wasn’t me. This was Cheryl Hile and it was happening to her as she was running a half marathon in Carlsbad, California. Cheryl…
September 8, 2016 Columns by Ed Tobias Have a Say About MS Drugs Anyone with a chronic medical problem knows how expensive drugs can be, and how a drug that you need can be here today … gone tomorrow on the list of drugs that your health plan will pay for.
September 6, 2016 Columns by Ed Tobias Take Your MS for a Swim I love the water. Good thing, since I live at the beach. Being in a swimming pool is also good therapy for my MS. It strengthens my core and arms and, when I do a little pool walking,…
August 30, 2016 Columns by Ed Tobias Doc Leaves MS Patient ‘Horrified’ … and Me Too! The other day I received a very troubling direct message from someone on another Multiple Sclerosis website: “I was diagnosed with MS in 2004 but, foolishly, dismissed it. Other than bad spacisity [spasticity] and a…
August 23, 2016 Columns by Ed Tobias MS and Kinect: Can an Xbox Camera Improve My Walking? Don’t you just love the walking test when you see your neurologist for your annual exam? “Let’s see how fast you can walk to me,” she says. The test is called the T25-FW, and it measures how long…
August 16, 2016 Columns by Ed Tobias Multiple Sclerosis Fatigue: Puzzling over the Jigsaw Feeling tired? No surprise there. Fatigue is as much a part of living with Multiple Sclerosis as sand is a part of the beach where I live. It’s interesting, then, that neurologists seem to have no good system…
August 9, 2016 Columns by Ed Tobias Don’t Let Multiple Sclerosis Ground You Flight is freedom in its purest form, To dance with the clouds which follow a storm; To roll and glide, to wheel and spin, To feel the…
August 1, 2016 Columns by Ed Tobias MS Shaming: ‘You Don’t Look Like You Need a Handicapped Tag!’ Do you remember when you applied for a handicapped license plate? I put it off for quite a while after I was diagnosed. After all, I could walk several city blocks fairly easily. I could still play…
July 25, 2016 Columns by Ed Tobias My MS Road: Diagnosis, Disease Management & Oral Vs. Injectable Therapies Editor’s Note: Multiple Sclerosis News Today is pleased to welcome Ed Tobias to our team of Patient Specialists and Columnists. Ed brings a wealth of journalistic experience to his new column, “The MS Wire,” which explores the latest science…
January 4, 2016 Columns by Ed Tobias An MS Advocate for Those Who Really Need One You probably haven’t heard of Edward Dowd. I hadn’t until I read about him in the latest issue of the National MS Society’s magazine, Momentum. I learned that Ed is a big-time landlord. The company he founded…
September 21, 2023 Columns by Benjamin Hofmeister Learning the hard way that with MS, no infection is routine
