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“Smart” Gear for Cold Hands Due to Raynaud’s Disease?

Member Julia (mjguimaraes), a product designer in Montreal who’s living with Raynaud’s disease and multiple autoimmune conditions, is creating hand-warmers and other smart gear intended to help patients. She even involved fellow PatientsLikeMe members in shaping her first product. What’s in the works? Check it out! Helping (Cold) Hands Julia is originally from Brazil and began to […]

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Seeing [MS]: The invisible symptoms – hot and cold

Patient Experiences / By patientslikeme

Dimitri is living with multiple sclerosis (MS), and he experiences dramatic changes in his body temperature every day. These swings can aggravate his other symptoms and leave him feeling suffocated. As he puts it, “a single bead of sweat can bring me to my knees.” You are now seeing hot and cold Photographed by

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Seeing [MS]: The invisible symptoms – blurred vision

Multiple Sclerosis, Patient Experiences / By patientslikeme

Hidden – invisible – unnoticed. That’s what symptoms for many living MS are like. So how do you explain them to people who don’t understand? The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Australia (MSA) decided to stop just talking about them and start showing what it’s like to live with MS. Their project is called Seeing [MS]

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