Travelling and NHS treatment restrictions

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Hi everyone,

I took my MS with me to Mexico, together with my pregridy infections. I am here to visit my husband’s family for 20 days, who do not know about my MS. Here MS is rarer, people don’t have a clue about it. Obviously I have annual travel insurance that costs me dearly. I try to be in the sun, but temperatures are not too hot this time of the year (good). This trip is refreshing, it is helping me mentally. To me, travelling means that after my recent diagnosis, life still goes on. There is always something that makes us happy. I wanted to share.

Anyone else with MS who enjoys travelling? My MS nurse mentioned some restrictions, that because of my treatment, my treatment would not be covered by the NHS if I was out of the UK for more than a month. I do travel but the maximum I stay abroad is 20 days per trip. Has anybody else heard anything similar?

Best regards
Maria

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There are some things that can get tricky - with certain MS treatments they don’t tend to recommend live vaccines like the one for Yellow Fever, for instance - but in my experience of treatments over the years, if you’re well enough, there isn’t much that the treatments themselves will stop you doing in terms of travel or anything else. Quite the reverse in fact: the treatments should help keep us as well as we can be for as long as possible so we can enjoy life to the full. It’s MS that’s the enemy of freedom, not the treatments.

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