Hi there , I’m Tanya diagnosed 6 years now. Is it just me or did your ms affect your friendships ?? I’ve lost a lot of friends and I’m struggling to get new ones as I suppose people don’t understand ms. Ms makes me feel so lonely , Ive no social life because of my ms and how it makes me feel.
I’m trying to attend groups which are ms specific, but unfortunately there’s none where I live.
The Shift MS site has a useful facility for finding MSers in your area and might be worth checking out.
Find MSers like you - Shift.ms
Hi tanya-coyle… Oh yes, I’ve lost friends…SADLY, is it my fault, or their’s, who knows, I just know from my side it hasn’t been easy. I miss them and I’m also angry with them for not always being there. I’ve now decided to leave well alone, I just want a quiet and peaceful life, so that means me and my hubby (carer) on our own…apart from family.
Jean x
100% it’s just me, my hubby (who is my carer too) and my two children… as much as I love my two children they are hard work lol , being alone suits me fine also but sometimes I wish I had a girl friend to talk to and hang out with.
Hi @tanya-coyle
Welcome. These days having to depend on using walking aids, especially if I were to go out-out, would just feel odd to me.
All my mates have nearly all flown away anyhow, sad but true, birds of a feather flock together.
Hope you get to make new friends on this community, at least.
JP
Hi Tanya, don’t know if anything below is of interest but in addition to what @whammel said about Shift MS, there is also MSUK which has what they call ‘Peer Pods’ which, from what I understand, meet up by video link one a fairly frequent basis - the Woman’s pod seems quite active.
There is also MS Together about which I know very little but one of its activities seems to be putting MS people in touch with each other
Also, I only recently discovered that there are at least 2 other MS folk in the village of 1600 where I live . The village is in Scotland, the MS capital of the world so there might be fewer in your general area but you never know.
Easier said than done but it might be a matter of ‘putting yourself’ out there