My Mum has MS, she was diagnosed when I was about 11. I'm afraid I don't know too much about the bad stages though - hers is being well managed with the Interferon. She's actually better now than she was before she was diagnosed!

The summer before she was diagnosed was awful though. For several weeks she lost all feeling down her left side, she couldn't hold anything or do anything, and the worst part was, she wouldn't let us help her. We even had a family holiday booked to Albany that she insisted on going to - it was while we were down there that the Doc rang with the results of her MRI. Once she went on the meds, she stopped having the awful flareups. She does have them now, they last 3 or 4 days at a time, but they're rare.

This may sounds selfish, but I guess it's probably a concern of yours as well.....I'm scared I have it as well. A lot of the things Mum has trouble with during a flareup are the same for me - not being able to speak properly, not remembering simple words. It scares the heck outta me.

Even if I don't know exactly what you're going through at the moment, I'm here if you need me