With multiple sclerosis, handball player Amandine Tissier puts her career on hold

She was only 28 years old and yet a serious illness forced her to put her career on hold.

Amandine Tissier, the handball player of the Neptunes de Nantes (Women's League), a club she joined last summer, has multiple sclerosis.

She was diagnosed with the terrible degenerative disease that affects the central nervous system in 2018.

At a time when the Women's World Championship begins in Spain, the Nantes woman announces that the evil forces her to stop her career.

"The evolution of my disease and my change of effective treatment since the beginning of October, do not allow me to maintain an optimal physical level and to meet the requirements of any high level professional player," says t -she on the site of her club.

I therefore choose to take the time to stabilize my illness and to project myself on a personal level ”.

🙏 Hospitalized, @A__Tissier (@NeptunesNantes) gave her news on her Instagram account.

😌 We have a big thought for you Amandine, good recovery!

💬 His full message: https://t.co/ZkKdplM8pL#LigueButagazEnergie #Handball pic.twitter.com/1HmkccQUDL

- LBE_Officiel (@LBE_Officiel) September 29, 2021

"For now, I'm not saying it's the end of my career"

Champion of France and finalist of the Champions League last spring with Brest, Amandine Tissier must start from now, a new against an opponent oh so much more formidable and dangerous than all the best handball players on the planet.

On France Bleu Nantes, the player explains that she has been preparing for it for a long time: “It was difficult to resume and I will not hide it, I would like to become a mother one day.

To be a mother, you have to stabilize the disease.

The problem is that today the disease is not stable and I may have one, two or even three years to stabilize the disease well.

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She does not know if this career break is final or not: “For the moment, I am not saying that it is an end of career.

Either I can't get used to it, or I don't know ... In two years, if all goes well, would I try to do one last season?

Or not ?

Would I say to myself that it is not possible?

I can not say it.

That's why we put the term

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Multiple sclerosis results in a dysfunction of the immune system causing lesions that cause motor, sensory, cognitive, visual, urinary and intestinal disturbances.

It is a disease that cannot be cured but which can be stabilized and controlled by treatments.