A SPRINGBURN woman has made a desperate appeal to raise £50,000 for life-changing MS treatment.

Carol Scarry's world was turned upside down when she discovered a constant pins and needles was in fact multiple sclerosis, however, three years after her 2012 diagnosis the situation became much worse.

The 39-year-old was told she had Progressive-Relapsing MS (RRMS), the rarest form of the disease which affects only five per cent of sufferers

Since then then Carol's condition has rapidly deteriorated. She became housebound, lost the ability to drive as she couldn't grip the steering wheel and had to give up her beloved job in City Building.

Speaking on her GoFundMe page, she said: "At first I dismissed the pins in needles in my hands but very quickly it became so severe that it could be ignored no longer.

"It was thought that I might have carpal tunnel syndrome and I was given splints for my arms to allow me to continue working.

"This didn’t alleviate my symptoms and it wasn’t long before I began to notice a difficulty in walking around.

"The doctor sent me for tests and I tried insoles in my shoes to support me with my journeys to work and back. I was still using public transport at the time but I was so close to passing my driving test and as someone in her early thirties, I was really excited to get out and see the world."

She added: "In little more than a year, I went from full mobility to walking with aids.

"I carried on regardless, clinging onto the hope that I could push the disease into remission.

"My decline refused to slow down. Before long I had to rely on a wheelchair to move from place to place. I had to take more and more time off work as the effects of each new drug took its toll on me, without any positive results.

"I finally had to retire from my work and this was an almighty blow. I had lost my job, my freedom and I was terrified of losing my future."

The mum-of-two has tried numerous treatments but to no avail. Now her only hope is a new chemotherapy treatment which aims to stop the damage the disease cause by wiping out and regrowing a patient's immune system, known as Haematopoetic stem cell transplantation (HSCT).

The treatment is used worldwide but it is still being tested in the UK, which meant Carol was not able to have the treatment on the NHS.

Instead, she must raise £50,000 by mid-August in order to begin the treatment on October 15, this year.

Carol launched a GoFundMe page to help with the financial costs of the treatment, with a total of £330 being raised over the past two weeks.

She said: "I'm 39 and not willing to give up without a fight.

"Any support that you could give me and my family would be quite literally life changing. Please help me stop this disease in its tracks."

To donate to Carol, visit gofundme.com/CarolHSCT.