We're answering your wildest MS questions: from dishing about celebrities with MS, to spilling the tea on taboo topics like sex, fatigue, and everything in between, we're diving deep, no holds barred. Be sure to stay tuned to the very end for my latest MS life-hack and product recommendation!

Highlights

• Show Open (00:00)
• Week in Review (00:30)
• Audience Questions & Social Media (01:41)
• Differences of having an MS Diagnosis in Your 20’s Versus Your 50’s? (03:46)
• How Do You Feel About Celebrities with MS like Christina Applegate and Selma Blair? (07:47)
• Do You Think MS is Caused by a Vaccine? (11:33)
• How Do You Motivate Yourself on Difficult MS Days? (13:29)
• How Do You Separate Your Self-Worth from Productivity? (17:22)
• How Does Your Spouse’s Chronic Illness Effect Your Mental Health? (20:32)
• Can MS Cause Pain? (22:12)
• Who Would You Love to Have on the Pod? (25:31)
• Where Do You See the Future of the Show Heading? (28:05)
• What Was an Unexpected Surprise you Discovered About Hosting a Podcast? (29:47)
• How Did You & Your Partner Meet? (31:35)
• How Has MS Effected Your Relationship with Your Partner? (33:01)
• Does MS Make it Hard or Impossible to Have Sex? (34:53)
• Do You Have a Special MS-Specific Diet That You Follow? (36:08)
• What’s the Best Answer When Someone Asks, “What’s Wrong With You?” or “What Happened to You?” (38:27)
• How Do You Handle it When Someone Calls You a “Good Man” for Being with Someone Who Has MS?  (39:32)
• Do You Ever Get Burned Out Talking About MS? (41:49)
• What Are the Latest Products and Tools You’ve Recently Discovered That Can Help with MS Symptoms? (42:30)
• Show Close (43:43)

Reference:

• The Hobblicious Chronicles
• The Truth About How People With MS Feel About Selma Blair
• MeSsy podcast
• EBV vaccine & MS
• Rest is Resistance Book 
• Top 10 Myths About MS
• What The Heck Is Smouldering MS?
• On Consolation: by Michael Ignatieff
• How To Hack Your Sex Life When MS Messes With Your Mojo
• Product recommendation: Hot Water Bottle For Your Feet!

About Ardra Shephard & Tripping On Air

Tripping on Air is a monthly video podcast that brings Ardra Shephard's part-confessional, part-informational blog Tripping on Air to the podcast airwaves! Ardra and co-host Alex Hajjar discuss what it's like to live with MS, from the best products for those with chronic illness, to successfully navigating a disability benefits claim.

Ardra Shephard is a writer, consultant, and speaker, whose award-winning blog Tripping On Air, enjoys an international reach and reputation.

Ardra is the creator and host of AMI-tv's lifestyle series Fashion Dis. Ardra has a regular column with BezzyMS (Ask Ardra Anything), and is a reporter with LivedHealth where she leads informative and educational conversations with leading MS specialists.

Ardra is on a mission to change minds about what it means to live with chronic illness and to have disability positively reflected as part of a diverse society. Accessible bars in Toronto would also be nice.

Follow Ardra on Twitter: @tripping_onair and Instagram: @ms_trippingonair

About Alex Hajjar

Alex Hajjar is the host, producer, and creative overthinker behind Social Animals, a podcast about friendship.

A civil engineering technologist by trade, Alex is also a punk-rock bass guitarist whose hobbies include world travel, hanging with his cat Nacho, and figuring out how to find chill about his beautiful wife Nicole's MS diagnosis.

Get More "Tripping On Air"

The Tripping on Air podcast airs monthly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit www.ami.ca/Tripping-On-Air.

And be sure to visit Ardra's website & blog: https://trippingonair.com/