Annamarie is an MS warrior from New York that started her journey when she woke up one morning in 2001 with a crooked eye. Annamarie talks about how her parents took her to a specialist hospital in New York for extensive testing and was sent to another hospital for scans and another hospital for even more testing and a spinal tap which confirmed she had MS at 16 years old. Annamarie and I talk about how scared she was at 16 and how she didn't understand what was going on with her body and how she feared she was going to have no future. Annamarie talks about how she had a fear of needles so she chose Avonex once a week injection and made it through two years of side affects and is still on same DMT 24years later. We have am awesome conversation about her dating as a teenager with a chronic disease and how her mom made sure every young man that showed interest understood what MS was before they dated her daughter. Annamarie also talks about how her mom was her coach and motivated her to fight everyday no matter what happens and how she still uses her as motivation. Annamarie explains how she has handled dating as an adult and how she found her prince on an online dating site. We talk about how we want to be treated like a normal person by family and friends and how we've lost friends throughout our journey. Annamarie also shares the importance of finding a community with people that understand what we go through and how we found each other on TikTok and became friends. We talk about how it doesn't matter where we live we all understand each other and how we need to come together. Annamarie's attitude is MS has to fight me and I'm going to kick it's ass everyday and I will never stop! Follow Annamarie on TikTok @Annamarie516. You are not alone in this fight FUMS!
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