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She received supportive messages from fans on social media, as well as from friends and family members who texted and called, offering encouragement and understanding. It also influenced her decision to become an advocate for the MS community. In January , she partnered with the pharmaceutical company Biogen and Self magazine, for the Reimagine MySelf campaign, which features a blog dedicated to helping women navigate their daily lives while also dealing with any complications of the disease.

Sigler says she also wanted to set a good example for Beau about honesty and transparency. The blog also gives me a platform to advocate for MS and become more involved in the MS community. Although Sigler chose to reveal her disease, many people with MS and other neurologic conditions keep silent, fearing that being open about their condition may affect their careers.

Disclosing MS to your employer is an individual decision, says Dr. Coyle, who encourages her patients to review their work environment carefully to see if any limitations need to be addressed or if any accommodations could help them do their job better. How has your workplace dealt with other employees who have disclosed their medical conditions? For help in making that decision, go to the National MS Society website. Sigler's symptoms stabilized for several years, but she has seen a worsening in the last five.

She had worried that MS might prevent her from getting pregnant, and was delighted when her symptoms subsided during her pregnancy. She opted not to take any medication while she was pregnant or breastfeeding her son and experienced no exacerbations of her symptoms during that time. In a two-year study conducted by Rhonda Voskuhl, MD, the director of the MS program at UCLA, women with relapsing-remitting MS who took a standard disease-modifying drug plus estriol, an estrogen made by the placenta that peaks toward the end of pregnancy, reduced their relapse rate by 32 percent at the end of the study compared to a group that received the standard MS therapy plus a placebo.

Larger clinical trials are needed to confirm the results. Today, Sigler manages her disease through a combination of twice-daily oral medication dimethyl fumarate , diet, and exercise. She often feels achy and stiff, but exercise helps. Self - Guest as Jamie Lynn Sigler. Self - Audience. Self - Co-Host. Self as Jamie-Lynn Siegler. Self as Jamie-Lynn DiScala. Self - Guest uncredited. Club Self - Host. Hide Show Archive footage 5 credits. Show all 6 episodes.

Self uncredited. Related Videos. Official Sites: Official Site. Height: 5' 3" 1. Spouse: Cutter Dykstra 2 children See more ». Children: Dykstra, Beau Kyle See more ». Parents: Lopez, Consuela Steve Sigler. Relatives: Sigler, Brian sibling See more ». Edit Did You Know? Personal Quote: [on ex-husband A. Discala ] I began trusting this man with my career and now I trust him with my life. On a recent visit to the Glamour Los Angeles office, Sigler opened up about how MS affects her marriage to husband Cutter Dykstra , her parenting son Beau is three , and her daily routine.

Glamour: January will mark one year since you publicly opened up about your MS. A year ago at this time, though, where were you in terms of deciding whether or not to tell your secret?

It also meant that I really had to accept that it was part of my life. I thought that people would see me as sick and not see me as me. For whatever reason, it felt like a positive thing for me.

JLS : A year ago, I started going to a hypnotherapist because he felt he could help people with chronic diseases and how to deal with pain, and help place your mind in other places. I didn't think [he would] help me find the courage to come forward with my diagnosis. Your only way to find any type of healing is to release yourself. It was a couple sessions of working with him and under hypnosis and giving me confidence. It would be a much better story if it went along [with something positive happening], so that was our plan!

Glamour: How did you feel on the morning that the news broke on People [they had the exclusive]? JLS : Terrified. I woke up crying. Read your text messages. And then there was people reaching out on social media, and it was so lovely. I read every single tweet, every single Instagram comment, and it hit me that I have this incredible responsibility now to represent a community that suffers in silence a lot of the time. JLS: It was the right timing [for me].

I think I needed to go through things and process them to be able to have the wisdom that I have now. I feel liberated. For more celebrity health news sent to you directly, sign up for our daily newsletter. Immediately after her diagnosis, Sigler did not experience symptoms. While speaking to Glamour in , the actor admitted that she "was in denial" about the disease. I didn't want to live a life thinking about MS because I wasn't symptomatic," she explained.

In , amid her divorce from her husband of two years, actor AJ Discala , Sigler began to feel new effects of her MS. To WebMD, she noted that she was having balance and bladder problems, along with feeling weak on her right side.

As managing those symptoms became more difficult, Sigler reached out to a medical professional in the entertainment industry for help. You will get fired. No one will hire you. People will judge you. Keep it between us,'" she told WebMD. She took that extreme advice and hid her MS at work by blaming her pain on a bad back and her Lyme disease. Her Sopranos co-star Edie Falco even visited Sigler in the hospital without knowing that MS was the reason for her being there.

Sigler kept her diagnosis private outside of work, as well.