Trail Of Light.

So, I am forever looking up the benefits of eating various foods and taking different supplements  and whether they are actually doing me any good at all. There has been a recent hype over clean/raw foods and it's easy to fall into the superfood phenomena, willing every morsel that passes our lips to be of some benefit to our body- especially since it can cost us a fortune. As you can imagine, I was delighted when Channel 4 released a programme called "Superfoods: The Real Story" , that gave viewers insight into foods that have been sat in the spotlight as life changing and looking into whether they are really as amazing as they are painted to be. Particularly since diagnosis, I've been more conscious of what I put into my body and though none of these foods will get rid of the dreaded lesions, keeping my body in tip-top shape can only help keep me as strong as possible enabling a speedier recovery from potential relapse. At the end if this blog I'll put in a bunc...

Wow! So an amazing response to this over the weekend. I can't believe how many of you have showed such incredible support for this project and I can't wait to see how many people this can reach! I thought I would take the time to post about my weekend and travel. Most of my friends aren't based around where I live so most of my journeys tend to span over a few days and via train travel. The most common issue that people with MS struggle with fatigue. Some research suggests that could be down to the way the body responds to coping with MS and factors such as heat (and boy, can I vouch for that one, with or without a condition!) and medication could also play a part. So for me, travel needs to be a) light b) organised and c) as stress free as possible. A) Light It is so important to travel light and by cutting back on the unnecessary, it helps me to conserve energy that I want to spend on something other than my overnight bag. I'm getting pretty good at ditching my ...

Hello everyone,  I'm not sure who's reading this or if anyone is at all but I'm going to give this a whizz. My name is Noor. I'm 23 years old and I was diagnosed with Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis back in December 2014. MS is an autoimmune condition which means your immune system starts attacking healthy body tissue. With MS, it destroys the protective sheaths around your nerves in your brain. This in turn disrupts signals trying to get the brain, leading to various symptoms which differ from person to person. It can lead to spasticity in different parts of the body, visual loss or disturbance and fatigue. I'd never really heard of MS pre-diagnosis and wasn't really familiar with what impact it could have on my body. I found it very scary taking in all this information and I can't say it was easy to accept what the doctors were saying. I was talking to a friend yesterday about how much I had wished I'd had someone my age to speak to when I...