MS Society Podcast30 Jan 2025

A Life on the Progressive Side: Episode 3: MS, transitions and living authentically

In the final episode in our podcast series Ashleigh speaks with Dr Cora Sergeant, who's living with relapsing remitting MS and, like Ashleigh, is trans. 

In this episode, Ashleigh and Cora discuss:

diagnosis
access to care
accessibility in both the MS community and the LGBTQIA+ community
transitioning to wheelchair use
the joy of living authentically

If you’re also living with or affected by MS, you can get support and information from mssociety.org.uk.

If you’d like to chat to other people living with MS, you can visit https://www.mssociety.org.uk/forum. You can also follow the MS Society on Facebook, Instagram, X, Linkedin and TikTok for news and stories from the MS community. Plus, you can check out the MS Society’s community blogs at https://www.mssociety.org.uk/blogs, to read lots of personal stories from people living with MS. 

Our freephone (from the UK) MS Helpline is open to call Monday to Friday from 9am to 7pm, except bank holidays. You can send us a direct private message on Facebook messenger between 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday. We also have a confidential email service: helpline@mssociety.org.uk. So drop us a line and we’ll get back to you within five working days.

For support aimed at the LGBTQIA+ community, you might find these links helpful. Please note these aren’t part of the MS Society.

https://switchboard.lgbt/contact-us

https://lgbt.foundation/ 

https://mindout.org.uk/get-support/mindout-online/

https://www.consortium.lgbt/member-directory/mindline-trans/

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Episoder(11)

A Life on the Progressive Side: Episode 2: Physio and the benefits of staying active

In the second episode of our podcast series, Ashleigh speaks with Helen, a neuro physiotherapist from Manchester who was Ashleigh's own physio post diagnosis.  In this episode, Ashleigh and Helen disc...

29 Jan 202522min

A Life on the Progressive Side: Episode 1: Primary progressive MS and adjustments after diagnosis

Welcome to a new series of our podcast. This time we're looking at life on the progressive side of MS - with our host Ashleigh - who lives with primary progressive MS. In each episode she will be tal...

28 Jan 202537min

MS history makers: Diversity and MS research

Meet three #MSHistoryMakers Alison Thomson, Roxy Murray and Rawda! They caught up to talk about the importance of EDI in MS research. Roxy is a podcaster, MS advocate and fashionista who advocates for...

22 Okt 202426min

MS history makers: Artificial Intelligence and MS research

Our podcast is back! We've just dropped a brand new podcast about MS and Artificial Intelligence. Should AI be used in MS care? "This AI tool is able to more accurately count the number and volume of...

21 Okt 202419min

Sleep And MS Podcast - Episode 6 - An Interview with Dr Agne Straukiene

Our final episode is a special one! Nikoma, one of our volunteer interviewers who has MS, speaks to neurologist Dr Agne Straukiene about what happens in our brain when we sleep. Agne shares her own vi...

25 Sep 202322min

Sleep And MS Podcast - Episode 5 - An Interview with Professor Rona Moss-Morris

Professor Rona Moss-Morris is a health psychologist at King’s College London and MS researcher. Rona joins Roxy to talk about the MS-REFUEL project (which she heads up) and what it might be able to te...

25 Sep 202323min

Sleep And MS Podcast - Episode 4 - Ask an MS Nurse - Q&A with Razia Khan

Roxy’s joined again by MS nurse, Razia Khan. In this episode, Razia answers your MS and sleep-related questions. Listen to all the episodes in this series at ⁠mssociety.org.uk/sleep-ms⁠ or wherever yo...

25 Sep 20237min