<p>My friend thinks I know all about this since my Mom had Multiple Sclerosis for over 40 years.
I’d like to be helpful, but all I know is that we got some good info from the National MS Society (this was years ago), and my Mom wasn’t able to use the new medicines when they were developed. </p>
<p>Does anyone know of any curent good resources, websites, etc., that I could share with my friend who was just diagnosed with MS?</p>
<p>The MS Society is still a great resource for support and information. Where are you located? Some of the local support groups also have very good and reliable info especially if they are held at a teaching center. For example, UCLA has a great support system. Not sure where you are located.</p>
<p>They might check to see if yahoo has an MS group, they do have many health condition groups that can be a great reference to see what others with the same Dx are thinking/feeling/trying etc</p>
<p>Karen, where does your friend live?</p>
<p>Thanks, these are good ideas, I hadn’t thought of the university/hospital angle.
In Texas, near Houston.</p>
<p>Just don’t allow your friend to drop out of life to start dying. There is a guy at church who was diagnosed 18 years ago…he has spent the last 18 years dying…he had had a job that required manual labor, but instead of training to do something else, he stopped working and set off on the business of dying. His wife divorced him after about 5 years of that; son is estranged. He is pretty immobile now, but he really squandered a lot of good years when he only had a slight mobility impairment. I know I shouldn’t pass judgment - he has probably been in physical pain through the years, but he’s the only person I’ve ever known who got a bad diagnosis and gave up right then and there.</p>
<p>If she is inHouston she has a gazillion resources available to her at the health sciences center there.
The Bayler/Methodist program (not sure of the affiliations right now) [Maxine</a> Mesinger Multiple Sclerosis Clinic (The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas)](<a href=“Houston Methodist: Leading Hospitals in Houston, Texas”>Houston Methodist: Leading Hospitals in Houston, Texas)
[Overview</a> - Multiple Sclerosis Center - Neurology - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas](<a href=“http://www.bcm.edu/neurology/msc/]Overview”>http://www.bcm.edu/neurology/msc/) have a ton of resources, and there are local support groups, etc. A quick google pulls up a ton of info.</p>
<p>Hey-- MS awareness week is the first week of March. Get her to follow up on this link [Lone</a> Star : National MS Society](<a href=“http://www.nationalmssociety.org/chapters/TXH/index.aspx]Lone”>Texas | National MS Society) From the Lone Star MS society</p>
<p>Tanks so much, I knew there were a lot of resources! and that y’all would know them.</p>