Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week – 28th April – 4 May 2025
Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week is here! This is an annual event dedicated to spreading the word about MS. Think of this week as a supportive platform for educating each other on the challenges faced by people with MS, raising funds and fostering understanding about this complex neurological condition.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a condition that affects nerves in your central nervous system. That’s your brain and spinal cord. In MS, the coating (myelin) that protects your nerves is damaged. This causes a range of symptoms like blurred vision and problems with how we move, think and feel.
Once diagnosed, MS stays with you for life, but treatments and specialists can help you to manage the condition and its symptoms.
More than 150,000 people in the UK have MS and each year over 7,000 people are newly diagnosed. In the UK people are most likely to find out they have MS in their thirties and forties. But the first signs of MS often start years earlier. Many people notice their first symptoms years before they get their diagnosis.
MS affects about two and half times as many women as men. People from many different ethnic backgrounds can get MS.
MS can be tough, and for many people talking about it can be challenging. Whether you’re opening up to a friend after being newly diagnosed, or finding the right words to describe symptoms to an employer. Sometimes it feels easier not to say anything at all.
The theme for 2025 will centre around Raising awareness and speaking up about the realities of life with MS.
That’s why this MS Awareness Week we’re saying #LetsTalkMS.