When Camille Lampkin was first diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the early 2000s, she was prescribed a medication she had to inject into herself on a regular basis.
The medication was meant to treat the symptoms of the autoimmune disease, which does not have a cure and degrades the central nervous system over time. Multiple sclerosis symptoms can range from numbness of arms and legs to paralysis and vision loss.
At the time, with a new diagnosis, Lampkin was scared of the injections into her thigh or arm. Looking back, she wished she’d known others like her using the same drug and having a similar experience…