Kinross woman's MS story

A Kinross woman living with multiple sclerosis (MS) has told how having honest, open conversations about her condition has helped challenge misconceptions ahead of MS Awareness Week.

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Paula Napier (45) was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS) in 2020. This MS Awareness Week - which begins on Monday until May 4 - Paula is supporting a new national charity campaign, MS Conversations.

Spearheaded by a collaboration of the UK's MS charities - MS Society, MS Trust, MS Together, MS-UK, the Neuro Therapy Network, Shift.ms, Overcoming MS, and Talks with MS - the campaign aims to encourage people to start conversations about their multiple sclerosis (MS).

More than 17,000 people in Scotland, and more than 150,000 people in the whole of the UK, live with MS. It’s a condition that affects nerves in the brain and spinal cord and impacts how people move, think and feel.

Symptoms are different for everyone and are often invisible.