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The MS Trust is a leading independent UK charity for people with multiple sclerosis, their families and friends and for all health professionals who work with them. The MS Trust funds information provision, education programmes for health professionals and research focussed for people to live with MS. Keep in touch with the world of MS by signing up for Open Door, our free quarterly update.

Visit our website at www.mstrust.org.uk

• About 85,000 people in the UK have MS
• About twice as many women as men have MS
• MS is usually diagnosed when people are in their 20s and 30s. Although MS can appear in people who are older than this, it is rare in teenagers and children
• Although symptoms can occur throughout the body, MS is a disease affecting the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord)
• Everyone's MS is different and for the individual, their MS can vary from day to day
• Symptoms can come and go and can vary greatly in terms of severity
• There may be periods of relapse of varying length and severity
• MS is neither infectious nor contagious
• MS is not a fatal condition
• At present, there is no cure for MS but this doesn't mean that MS cannot be treated

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