On My Nerves: MS Unfiltered

Living with multiple sclerosis can bring a lot of moments you never expected to face. Needing wheelchair assistance at the airport. Worrying that people are looking at you differently. Feeling like you have to prove that a limp, mobility change, or disability says nothing about your intelligence or capability. Tim and Michelle talk honestly about how those moments can stir up shame, and how over t...

Living with MS can feel like trying to find your footing while the ground keeps shifting. In this episode, Tim X and MSchelleRx talk about what it means to live in that tension. They share how acceptance changes over time, why balance may never be something you fully “figure out,” and how support, faith, community, therapy, and knowing your own limits can help you keep moving forward. They also ta...

Can you have a healthy pregnancy with multiple sclerosis ? Do MS symptoms get worse during pregnancy ? What happens after delivery, and does MS affect labor, breastfeeding, mobility, or your baby? In this episode of On My Nerves: MS Unfiltered , Michelle (MSChelleRX) sits down with maternal-fetal medicine physician Dr. Danielle Tate to talk honestly about MS and pregnancy , including what women wi...

MS doctor visits can feel overwhelming, especially when you only see your neurologist a few times a year. In this episode of On My Nerves: MS Unfiltered , MSchelleRx shares practical doctor visit hacks to help people with multiple sclerosis feel more prepared, less rushed, and more confident walking into their neurology appointments. Michelle recorded this originally for her MSchelleRx channel, an...

Living with multiple sclerosis is exhausting in ways people don’t always see. The fatigue, brain fog, mobility changes, pain, and other MS symptoms are only part of the story. There is also the emotional labor of managing a chronic illness while carrying your identity, relationships, work, family expectations, and everything else that makes you who you are. In this episode of On My Nerves: MS Unfi...

Can intermittent fasting really help with multiple sclerosis? In this episode of On My Nerves: MS Unfiltered , MSchelleRx breaks down intermittent fasting, what happens in the body during a fasting period, and why researchers are interested in its possible effects on inflammation, metabolism, brain health, and MS symptoms. Michelle also shares why intermittent fasting has become part of her own ro...

In this episode of On My Nerves: MS Unfiltered , we talk honestly about asking for help with MS, changing independence, family support, vulnerability, and learning how to live well with MS when your body no longer lets you do everything the way you used to. Tim shares what it’s like receiving help from his father while they both navigate mobility changes. MSchelleRx talks about the internal debate...

Why do MS symptoms change from one day to the next , or even from one hour to the next? Living with multiple sclerosis can mean waking up to a body that feels completely different than it did yesterday. Fatigue may suddenly feel heavier. Brain fog may show up without warning. Spasticity, weakness, balance problems, nerve pain, or heat intolerance can become louder, sometimes with an obvious trigge...

Heat can change everything when you live with MS. In this episode of On My Nerves: MS Unfiltered , Michelle and Tim talk about heat intolerance, MS fatigue, Uhthoff’s phenomenon, body temperature, travel, hot showers, exercise, cooling tools, and what it feels like when your symptoms suddenly get worse in the heat . Tim explains how heat can drain his battery fast, taking him from functional to ex...

Stress does not just affect your mood when you live with MS. It can affect your body, your fatigue, your symptoms, your energy, and your ability to function. In this episode of On My Nerves: MS Unfiltered , Michelle and Tim talk honestly about the connection between stress and multiple sclerosis symptoms. Michelle shares what she has noticed in her own MS journey: when she was younger, newly diagn...

What you eat can affect how you feel, especially when you are living with multiple sclerosis. In this episode of On My Nerves: MS Unfiltered , Michelle and Tim talk honestly about food, fatigue, inflammation, energy, and what it looks like to figure out what works for your own body. Michelle shares why she follows what she considers an anti-inflammatory way of eating, how processed foods and dairy...

An MS diagnosis can change the path you thought you were walking, but it does not erase the purpose God placed inside of you. In this episode of On My Nerves: MS Unfiltered , Michelle and Tim sit down with Bex Keselburg of Inspiring Your Shine for an honest conversation about purpose, identity, faith, acceptance, and learning how to move forward after life changes in ways you never expected. Bex s...

MS Supplements: What Actually Helps? | A Pharmacist Explains Vitamin D, Magnesium, B12 & More When you're diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, the supplement advice starts almost immediately. But how do you know what's actually supported by research and what's simply hope in a bottle? In this episode of On My Nerves: MS Unfiltered , Michelle, a pharmacist living with MS, breaks down the suppleme...

Can chair yoga help people living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) improve mobility, reduce stress, and reconnect with their bodies? Special guest Marlon F. Hall leads us through a gentle chair yoga practice designed to help people living with Multiple Sclerosis , chronic illness, and mobility challenges experience greater ease through mindful movement and breath. This episode builds on our conversati...

Can yoga help Multiple Sclerosis (MS)? Can breath, posture, mindfulness, and movement improve quality of life when you're living with a chronic neurological disease? In this episode of On My Nerves: MS Unfiltered , Michelle (MSchelleRx) and Tim welcome Marlon F. Hall , an anthropologist, yoga instructor, author, and mindfulness coach, for one of our most thought-provoking conversations yet. Marlon...

Living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) can feel overwhelming, especially after a new diagnosis. Fatigue, brain fog, uncertainty, and fear can make it difficult to imagine a hopeful future. But today's conversation is about why hope still matters and why there has never been a better time to live with MS. In this episode of On My Nerves: MS Unfiltered , Michelle (MSchelleRx) and Tim share what keeps t...

When you live with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), you're not the only one adjusting. Your spouse, family, friends, and caregivers are learning how to navigate this journey alongside you. In this episode of On My Nerves: MS Unfiltered , Michelle (MSchelleRx) and Tim have an honest conversation about the people who often go unseen in chronic illness: the support system. They discuss why caregivers deserve...

What does MS fatigue actually feel like? People often hear the word “fatigue” and assume it means being tired. But for many people living with multiple sclerosis, fatigue is one of the most debilitating and misunderstood symptoms of the disease. In this episode of On My Nerves: MS Unfiltered , MSchelleRx and Tim X share their personal experiences with MS fatigue and explain why it goes far beyond...

What if some of the habits helping you survive with MS are actually making life harder? This episode shares the hard lessons we learned about pride, self-neglect, and learning to adjust. In this episode of On My Nerves: MS Unfiltered , MSchelleRx and Tim Conway have an honest conversation about the toxic survival habits they developed while trying to navigate life with multiple sclerosis. Habits t...

Loneliness with MS does not always look the way people expect. Sometimes it is not about physically being alone, it's the feeling that nobody fully understands what living inside your body feels like. It is trying to explain fatigue that words cannot fully capture. It is grieving changes nobody else can see. It is navigating symptoms while still trying to stay connected to the people you love. In...

Living with Multiple Sclerosis can feel isolating, overwhelming, and invisible. But... you are not alone. In this deeply honest and emotional conversation, two cousins living with MS open up about grief, healing, chronic illness, emotional safety, identity loss, faith, family, and learning how to live well despite the challenges of a progressive disease. As two African-American family members both...

Living with multiple sclerosis comes with an emotional weight most people never see. In this episode of On My Nerves: MS Unfiltered , MSchelleRx and Tim X have an honest conversation about the hidden emotional labor of living with MS, chronic illness, invisible symptoms, and constantly adjusting to a life you did not plan for. This episode goes beyond medications and doctor appointments to talk ab...

How to find happiness after your MS Diagnosis. What happens when you realize you’re not going back to the person you were before MS? In this episode of On My Nerves: MS Unfiltered , MSchelleRx and Tim Conway have an honest conversation about grief, identity, emotional healing, and redefining happiness while living with MS. They open up about the emotional reality of chronic illness, the life they...

In this episode of On My Nerves: MS Unfiltered , Tim and Michelle (MSChelleRX) talk about the hidden obstacles of multiple sclerosis (MS) that nobody warned you about, the real-life struggles that show up between neurologist appointments and affect everyday living. We break down common but overlooked MS symptoms like foot drop , balance issues, mobility changes, and those confusing moments when yo...

What does healing actually mean when you’re living with multiple sclerosis? In this episode of On My Nerves: MS Unfiltered , MSchelleRx and Tim Conway unpack one of the biggest misconceptions in the MS journey: that healing means being cured. Early on, healing feels like getting back to “normal.” But over time, that definition starts to shift. They talk through the emotional reality of living with...