Episode 307: Managing Stress and Anxiety When You're Living With MS with Dr. Bree Wannamaker

Learning to effectively manage stress and anxiety is important for everyone. And if you're living with the unpredictability of MS, it may be doubly important.  Joining me to discuss the impact that stress and anxiety can have on your physical and mental health, along with strategies you can use to manage the stress and anxiety in your life, is Dr. Bree Wannamaker. Dr. Wannamaker lives with MS, and she's a Licensed Professional Counselor and Chief Therapist & Consultant in her practice, Just Us Counseling and Consulting, LLC. We're also sharing the results of a study that compared patient outcomes among people with relapsing-remitting MS who were started on a high-efficacy disease-modifying therapy and people with relapsing-remitting MS who were started on a lower efficacy DMT. We'll tell you about remyelination research that led to a surprising conclusion. We'll share the details about Crush MS, an amazing event in Napa Valley that brings together wine, food, and music to raise money for MS research. I hope I'll see you there! And if you're on Ocrevus, we have some potentially time-saving news to share with you! We have a lot to talk about! Are you ready for RealTalk MS??! This Week: Managing stress and anxiety if you're living with MS  :22 A research team analyzed the outcomes for people with MS who were started on a high-efficacy DMT and compared them to the outcomes for people with MS who were started on a lower-efficacy DMT  1:18 An experimental therapy promoted remyelination by upending the commonly held scientific hypothesis about myelin repair  6:53 I'll be at Crush MS! Will I see you there?   9:53 An Ocrevus treatment in just 10 minutes?   11:31 Dr. Bree Wannamaker shares strategies for managing stress and anxiety  13:33 Share this episode  33:20 Have you downloaded the free RealTalk MS app???  33:41 SHARE THIS EPISODE OF REALTALK MS Just copy this link & paste it into your text or email: https://realtalkms.com/307 ADD YOUR VOICE TO THE CONVERSATION I've always thought about the RealTalk MS podcast as a conversation. And this is your opportunity to join the conversation by sharing your feedback, questions, and suggestions for topics that we can discuss in future podcast episodes. Please shoot me an email or call the RealTalk MS Listener Hotline and share your thoughts! Email: [email protected] Phone: (310) 526-2283 And don't forget to join us in the RealTalk MS Facebook group! LINKS If your podcast app doesn't allow you to click on these links, you'll find them in the show notes in the RealTalk MS app or at www.RealTalkMS.com STUDY: Does Initial High-Efficacy Therapy in Multiple Sclerosis Surpass Escalation Treatment Strategy? A Comparison of Patients with Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis in the Czech and Swedish National Multiple Sclerosis Registries https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S221103482300305X TREAT-MS Clinical Trial https://treat-mstrial.org Crush MS https://crushms.org If you're living with MS, email [email protected] for special deep discount code Crush MS 10% Discount Code for everyone is Realtalkmsdiscount (case sensitive) Join the RealTalk MS Facebook Group https://facebook.com/groups/realtalkms Download the RealTalk MS App for iOS Devices https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/realtalk-ms/id1436917200 Download the RealTalk MS App for Android Deviceshttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tv.wizzard.android.realtalk Give RealTalk MS a rating and review http://www.realtalkms.com/review Follow RealTalk MS on Twitter, @RealTalkMS_jon, and subscribe to our newsletter at our website, RealTalkMS.com. RealTalk MS Episode 307 Guest: Dr. Bree Wannamaker Privacy Policy