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This week Christina McDonald shares with us her first experience of MS Ireland’s 2018 conference and the reasons why she is attending the upcoming conference in Limerick this September.

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I miss my heels. There, I’ve said it.

I was never one for those wickedly-towering stiletto spindles, just the comforting ‘lift’ a beautiful pair of Italian-crafted leather boots with a decent height gave me.

Recently, MS Ireland caught up with musician Pauric O'Meara. Pauric is the brother of MS & Me blogger Ciara and appeared on the hit TV show The Voice in 2016. Pauric is holding a fundraising concert in aid of MS Ireland on August 21st and you can learn all about what motivated him and how to buy tickets below!

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It’s a question many of us ask when diagnosed. While MS does not affect your fertility, there are still many considerations to make when thinking about starting a family; from what to do about medication to managing your fatigue and symptoms after the baby is born. Here Keith and Rosie discuss their experiences.

When it comes to managing MS, I’ve found that you could spend the rest of your life reading medical articles, blogs, Dr Google (not advised!) and some absolutely bonkers theories about medication and therapies. I know I am not the first, and won’t be the last, a person with MS who has gone down a rabbit hole of links online, leaping from one website to another. Looking at websites that tell me what I should be doing and ending up no further along than I was about 4 hours ago, when I had innocently decided “I’ll just read this one wee article”.

The European Medicines Agency has issued a press release recommending that Gilenya (fingolimod) not be used during pregnancy or by women of child-baring age who are not using effective contraception.

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This week Grace Kavanagh shares her personal experiences with memory and cognition and the coping strategies she uses.