On May 30, 2025, the German Multiple Sclerosis Society (DMSG) calls for the seventeenth Sometimes the World Ms Day to ask for solidarity with those affected in Germany alone (1) of multiple sclerosis, This year under the motto: “A thousand faces and yours: live with MS”.
In the run -up to this important day, the known also speaks Sports presenter Anna Kraft, even MS affected and new patron of the campaign trotz MSabout their illness, about the way to new courage, challenges in family and professional life, family planning and about modern therapies for them.
Disease of the 1,000 faces
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a previously incurable chronic nerve disease that affects women far more often than men. The initial diagnosis often occurs when the topic of family planning is relevant for young women at the same time – between the ages of 20 and 40. The disease often runs into batches and continues steadily. Each thrust can cause irreversible, unpredictable damage. Inflammation in the brain and spinal cord contribute to the fact that stimuli is no longer passed on and processed correctly, which in turn can affect different functions of the body.
As this is expressed, everyone and every affected person is very different, which is why MS is also called the “illness of the 1,000 faces”. Typical are paralysis, coordination and visual disturbances, pain, severe exhaustion as well as numbness and sensations. Moderator Anna remembers: “At 30 I had to walk and write again.” At that time she came to the hospital with suspicion of a trapped nerve and left it with the diagnosis MS.
Modern therapies can inhibit the course
Usually acute relapses are briefly treated with cortisone. High -effective, drug therapies, for example with a human, monoclonal antibody, can affect the course in the long term and slow or even stop or even stop disability. For example, special cells of the immune system can be inhibited, which misdirect MS and are involved in the damage to the nerve cells. Anna had herself switched to such innovative therapy in 2022 and has felt more freely since then – not least because the treatment is only necessary twice a year, as an infusion or injection, and since then she has not suffered from episodes: “I will then get my good care that I am fine with the MS and, to be honest, really great!” So her demanding life as a mother of two who is fully in professional life becomes more predictable, and there is a lot of “therapy -free time that I can enjoy.”
Ambassador for MS
“I want to give the disease a new face”
In addition to family and job, Anna’s commitment as an MS ambassador is at the top. She now gives interviews, speaks in podcasts, posts on Instagram and has written a biographical non -fiction book: strength. My life with multiple sclerosis (Südwest-Verlag). “I want to demy this disease, take the fear and, above all, correct the still ubiquitous wheelchair image. By talking and writing about my good and bad days, I show that people with MS actively participate in life.”
That is why Anna has been taking over the patronage for the large information campaign “Despite MS” since this year. Because professional and at the same time emotionally facing education for MS patients and relatives is their heart project. In the campaign with the website www.trotz-ms.de And the social media channels of the same name on Instagram and TikTok is about information and practical tips about MS disease in everyday life as well as in therapy. And Anna’s next project? “I think about a children’s book that explains MS in pictures and simple texts. So far, I notice something like that, when I talk to my children about my illness.”
(1) Numbers of the https://www.dmsg.delooked up on April 23, 2025