Everything you need to know about multiple sclerosis [Video]

Early treatment of multiple sclerosis is crucial to ensure best outcomes, but diagnosis can sometimes be a long road. Here’s what to look out for.

More than 33,300 Australians live with the chronic neurological disease multiple sclerosis (MS).

Among them, Canberra-based management consultant Laura Birchall, who was diagnosed in 2020.

“After I exercised, my arms and my legs would be tingly, my vision would go really dark and I just thought it was because I was really bad at cardio,” the 31-year-old recalls.

“When I was in the shower, I couldn’t feel my legs and thought I need(ed) to stop having such hot showers; I had bouts of fatigue.”

Alarming data prepared by the Menzies Institute published in 2023 found MS is increasing at an accelerating rate — up by 30 per cent in the four years to 2021, and more than doubling from the previous period.

And a new reportreleased today by …