What are the 3 Worst MS Symptoms that You are Struggling With?

symptoms of multiple sclerosis or multiple sclerosis symptoms

It's your turn! I want to hear from you!

Tell me about the 3 worst symptoms of multiple sclerosis that you are having problems with. What are the things that you are having the toughest time dealing with when it comes to all of the crazy symptoms of ms that can be caused by MultipleSclerosis?

It can be so difficult to live from day to day struggling with the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis. At times, it can even seem like you are all alone in what Multiple Sclerosis symptoms that you have problems with as you are living with Multiple Sclerosis for any period of time -- whether is has been a short or longer period of time, since you were given the Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis.

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Where can you go to talk about how Multiple Sclerosis has affected our lives?

Well I know that it can be difficult to find ways to just talk or chat with someone else that can understand what we are going through, after we are given the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis.

So, since I also struggle with my own MS symptoms at times (sometimes more often than not), I want you to know that I am here to help you in any way that I can. I am not a doctor, but I have had first had experience of battling back against a severe case of Multiple Sclerosis and I have learned much more about Muliple Sclerosis as I have been searching for more ways to reduce my own Multiple Sclerosis symptoms, while I have been searching for other ways that can help the many other people in the world that have been given the Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis too that have not been able to find relief to their own symptoms of MS as I have been able to do.

Do you find that you would just like to talk to someone else that has been through something similar to what you have been through that understands something about how you feel and what you are struggling with when either a MS relapse, MS exacerbation or MS attack cause a flare up in MS symptoms appearing to become worse and make you feel sicker -- so that you are able to function less than before the ms relapse occurred?

Well...I do understand what you are also going through because of Multiple Scerosis, because I have been there too and if you just want to discuss any of what you are going through because of Multiple Sceroses, you can post your questions, concerns or even describe what ms symptoms you are struggling with and I will do what I can to help you as much as I can to see that it isn't hopeless and you are not alone!

So, go ahead -- tell me about your 3 worst symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis !

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Coping with Life Again After Being Diagnosed with MS

Coping with Multiple Sclerosis

After we are first given the Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis, it can sometimes be difficult to cope with how devastating the effects of Multiple Sclerosiscan be on our overall health.

Depending on how mild or severe your particular set of MS symptoms have become, you may have to give up doing many of the things that did previously because your body no longer functions enough for you to be able to do the things that you really enjoyed before Multiple Sclerosis entered your life.

I know how it feels to have to give up doing the majority of what I loved to do previously - almost over night - because of how severe my particular case of Multiple Sclerosis was when I was first given the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. I didn't realize at the time that the very mild symptoms that I had as my initial symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis, within the 2 years before I was actually diagnosed with MultipleSclerosis, were a much more severe health condition than I could have ever imagined.

For how severe my Multiple Sclerosis symptoms were at initially, after I was first diagnosed, and because of the ways that I chose to cope with my life being turned upside down, I was constantly being asked how I could handle the drastic changes that Multiple Sclorosis had brought into my life.

Thinking back on it all now, I had decided that I had 2 choices at the time. I could either allow myself to be extremely depressed (which would not help me to get better at all) or I could find a way to deal with the way that I felt inside. I had remembered that in the past, before I was diagnosed with Multiple Sc or Multiple Scerosis, that I decided right after I was given the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis that in the past I had used the adversity in my own life to help not to give e up when things were also very upsetting and maybe even depressing.

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Can Focusing our Minds on Healing Help those with MS?

MS mind and repairing ms damage

Healing Multiple Sclerosis through Mind-Body techniques for MS??

Is this possible, or just an imaginary idea?

Can focusing our minds help to aid in reducing ms symptoms?

Our minds have an amazing ability to focus the energy from our bodies to enhance how well our bodies respond to what we instruct them to do. When we focus our minds on doing something specific, like taking a step, walking, standing up or even with reducing how we respond to ms stress, our bodies listen and respond to the brain's instructions that are sent to that part of the body.

This is why whenever a clinical trial or study is performed on a new technique or with testing a new prescription drug that the researchers and doctors alike are always trying to avoid the "placebo effect".

The "placebo effect" is where the power of suggestion is so strong to our minds that if we suggest that something can help our bodies to heal, repair or respond in a particular way that (even if a sugar tablet or sugar water is given in place of the drug or technique being tested) - many people in the clinical trial have a much greater chance of responding to the positive suggestion and improving -- sometimes in an amazing way -- even if they start out with a very severe health condition.

As the medical community is finding out more about the amazing abilities of the mind in reducing symptoms of different diseases, such as Multiple Sclerosis, -- more of the doctors, who use complimentary medicine in their practices, are turning to using more mind focusung techniques or Mind-Body techniques to help reduce the ms symptoms that their MS patients are experiencing.

Several of the Mind-Body techniques can help those of us that have been given the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis to find relief to quite a few of the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis.

Click on the link to read more -- ms brain.

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Mind-Body techniques, which have been used effectively for reducing Multiple Sclerosis symptoms, can include any of the following:

* ms guided imagery

* ms visualization

* meditation for Multiple Sclerosis

* tone therapy - this is where a piece of music is played that uses tones that have been found to help to relax the mind. This techique can be u

* music therapy - where relaxing music is used to help free the mind of distractions and help it to relax to make it easier to focus the mind on specific parts of the body, to allow healing energy to flow throughout our bodies.

* ms stress reduced through ms breath therapy

* ms tai chi (includes focusing the mind and relaxing while doing slower sets of movements, which help to relax the body, and rebalance energy patterns throughout the body, without doing exercies that are too strenuous for the body to handle.

This allows the body to relax and replenish without adding to ms fatigue, that is often already present in the majority of cases of Multiple Sclerosis.

* yoga for ms - includes much of these techniques

* qui gong for ms - this method of exercise also helps to gently work the muscles to help them to stay more limber, flexible and not as tight as they often can become for those that often experience ms spasms, ms twitches or ms tremors.

There have actually been a few documented cases where a persons with one of several severe health conditions actually used different techniques to focus the mind on vizualizing the different parts of the body repairing itself with amazing results.

Our bodies respond much better to us helping to create a healing environment for our bodies to focus its energies on allowing our body to relax, replenish and repair itself. To the western mind set, this is a foreing concept, but in quite a few countries throughout the world, this idea is emerging as a way to help us to work with our bodies to promote healing, rather than to fight against our bodies and try to force our bodies into doing what we want them to in ways that we think that "it has to be done".

If we learn to listen more to our bodies, they give us clues as to what is going on internally, that often we don't have any other way of evalating or viewing these bodily processes while they are occuring.

Who knows -- maybe there will arrive a period of time where our whole view on human health and how to help our bodies to become healthier instead of sicker may one day become something that is not such a foreign concept, but rather a natural occurance for those of us with more of the current chronic conditions, like Multiple Sclerosis.

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Can Focusing our Minds Help to Reduce MS Symptoms?

MS mind and repairing ms damage

Can focusing our minds help to aid in reducing ms symptoms?

Our minds have an amazing ability to focus the energy from our bodies to enhance how well our bodies respond to what we instruct them to do. When we focus our minds on doing something specific, like taking a step, walking, standing up or even with reducing how we respond to ms stress, our bodies listen and respond to the brain's instructions that are sent to that part of the body.

This is why whenever a clinical trial or study is performed on a new technique or with testing a new prescription drug that the researchers and doctors alike are always trying to avoid the "placebo effect".

The "placebo effect" is where the power of suggestion is so strong to our minds that if we suggest that something can help our bodies to heal, repair or respond in a particular way that (even if a sugar tablet or sugar water is given in place of the drug or technique being tested) - many people will respond to the positive suggestion and improve -- sometimes in an amazing way -- even if they start out with a very severe health condition.

In most cases of Multiple Sclerosis, MS attacks and causes damage to the myelin sheath along the spinal cord or to the damage in different parts of the brain, that can result in MS scarring throughout the brain.  The scarring that results in the majority of the cases of Multiple Sclerosis can be seen on ms mri test results, that are often used for diagnosing Multiple Sclerosis.

It is true, that from a neurological point of view, the scarring that often results in the majority of the cases of MultipleSclerosis can interfere with the brain being able to communicate with the rest of the body through the nerve signals being able to travel from the brain to throughout the body.  This is a key problem with the majority of the cases of Multiple Sclorosis.

But this is not related to much of what I am discussing here.  What I am referring to about the amazing powers of the mind to help prompt the body to speed up the repair process throughout the body involves how we focus our minds more than the actual neurological function of the brain.

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What MS Facts have been Discovered through Doing MS Research?

ms facts or multiple sclerosis facts

Multiple Sclerosis is known as an autoimmune disorder where the body attacks itself, as if it is a foreign invader, which the body needs to defend itself against.

Sclerosis means scarring. Scarring is seen in the majority of the cases of MultipleSclerosis that are diagnosed each year.  The scarring is seen as plaques or lesions on the test results from performing ms mri tests or magnetic resonance imaging tests on different parts of the body.

Diagnosing Multiple Sclerosis is done after performing mri tests, pin-prick tests, retinal scans, or a sample of spinal fluid is collected by doing a ms spinal tap and the sample is analyzed for certain protein markers that are characteristically present when the condition of Multiple Sclerosis is also present in the body.

Multiple Sclorosis is known to attack and often damage nerves throughout the central nervous system, throughout the body.

The majority of the scarring that is seen in most cases of Multiple Schlerosis is present on the spinal cord or through out the brain.

The myelin, a fatty tissue which surrounds, insulates and protects the nerves running throughout the spinal cord, is attacked and damaged in the majority of the cases of Multiple Scerosis.

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Which MS Symptoms are related to MS Nerve Damage?

ms nerve damage

What is Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis is classified as an autoimmune disorder, where the body attacks itself as if it is a foreign invader that the body needs to defend itself against. Sclerosis is another name for the scarring that appears in the majority of the cases of MultipleSclerosis. The most common way of diagnosing Multiple Sclerosis is through ms mri tests or magnetic resonance imaging tests, where the person's whole body can be scanned to determine if there is scarring or demyelination on the spinal cord or throughout the brain.

Multiple Sclerosis nerve damage

Multiple Sclerosis attacks the nerves through out the body and scaring or demyelination results. In more severe cases of MS nerve damage can result.  The more severe MS nerve damage becomes, the more this can reult in many more problems with severely reducing how well  different parts of the body can functie body to functioon, often on a daily basis.

Based on what the doctors told me, after I was first diagnosed with a severe case of Multiple Sclerosis, the symptoms of ms nerve damage, which are often seen in more severe cases of MS, which can be signs of ms nerve damage being being present can include any of the following:

* foot drop or clonus - this describes the loss of control of one or both of your feet or a loss of nerve function in one or both of the feet (this can result in ms numbness, ms foot pain, ms nerve pain, and turning of the foot sideways whenever you try to take a step or stand with your feet flat on the floor or clonus).

* loss of muscle strength in the legs or feet - this can result in problems picking one or both feet or of either of the legs, loss of balance, 

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Can Focusing our Minds Help those with MS?

Multiple Sclerosis mind or Mind-Body techniques for MS??

Is this a good idea or just an imaginary idea?

Our minds have an amazing ability to focus the energy from our bodies to enhance how well our bodies respond to what we instruct them to do. When we focus our bodies on doing something specific, like taking a step, walking, standing up or even with reducing how we respond to ms stress, our bodies listen and respond to the brain's instructions that are sent to that part of the body.

This is why whenever a clinical trial or study is performed on a new technique or with testing a new prescription drug that the researchers and doctors alike are always trying to avoid the "placebo effect". 

The "placebo effect" is where the power of suggestion is so strong to our minds that if we suggest that something can help our bodies to heal, repair or respond in a particular way that (even if a sugar tablet or sugar water is given in place of the drug or technique being tested) - many people will respond to the positive suggestion and improve -- sometimes in an amazing way -- even if they start out with a very severe health condition.

As the medical community is finding out more about the amazing abilities of the mind in reducing symptoms of different diseases, more of the doctors, who use complimentary medicine in their practices, are turning to using more mind focusing techniques  or Mind-Body techniques to help reduce the ms symptoms that their MS patients are experiencing.

Click on the link to read more -- Multiple Sclerosis mind 

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What Helpful Information is available about Multiple Sclerosis?

ms information or information ms

There is much more that is being learned and understood about Multiple Sclerosis, recently than there was just 20 years ago.

This has come about because of the broad range of areas that MS research has been directed towards, in an attempt to figure out the possible causes. Different areas are also being pursued as potential cures for multiple sclerosis at the same time.

Many more cases of Multiple Sclorosis have been appearing in more different countries around the world, than have been seen at any other time through out the world's history.

This has caused more alarm with the overall medical communities of the many countries around the world, where Multiple Schlerosis is appearing, where M S was not a problem previously.

MultipleSclerosis is appearing more as a major world wide problem, and unless something is found or discovered that can reduce the rate of increase of the ms incidence rate.

We are learning more about Mutiple Sclerosis, or more ms info about things like:

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Why are most cases of MS so Difficult to Diagnose?

Progression of MS or Stages of MS

Most cases of Multiple Sclerosis start out very mild with symptoms that tend to come and go for over a period of 2 to 5 years before the MS symptoms become severe enough or consistent enough that the person whose body is under attack by Multiple Schlerosis realizes that something more drastic or more serious than a mild cold or a short-lived flu virus is going on that is tearing down their health and making them sicker, more often than other people that are around them.

Part of the reason that this tends to happen this way is that until the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis become severe enough -- such as the symptoms of ms insomnia, ms heat sensitivity, ms incontinence, ms vision problems, and several other of the long list of possible early symptoms that can be associated with many of the cases of MultipleSclerosis these symptoms are not so easy to recognize that they are associated together and caused by the autoimmune disorder called Multiple Sclerosis. It isn't until enough of the broad range symptoms of MultipleSclerosis appear more often on a more consistent basis that a pettern emerges that makes it easier to see that these are not just unassociated health problems that are occurring. 

This is all so puzzling to doctors and patients alike because it is all too easy to mistake the mild MS symptoms initially for other conditions that are not considered chronic or as severe as the majority of Multiple Schlerosis cases can become. Once the mild Multiple Sclerosis symptoms become more noticeable and more regular in their appearance, this is often when the person battling with the mild symptoms of MS actually decides that they had better go to a doctor to help them figure out why they are feeling so exhausted, or just plain sick so much of the time.

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What causes Spasms, Twitching and Tremors in MS?

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What causes spasms, twitching and uncontrollable movements in those of us that who are given the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis?

There are a few possible causes that can account for these type of multiple sclerosis responses.

There are a few explanations by the medical community that can include:

* possible nerve damage - the more severe a ms spasm can is, there is a much higher possibility of there being multiple sclerosis nerve damage present, but this is not always the case in most cases of more extreme spasiticy in the majority of cases of Multiple Sclerosis.

reversing ms nerve damage can take time and effort and changing a few of our life style habits, including changing the ms diet, reducing ms stress, reducing ms fatigue, increasing ms exercise, adding ms juicing, adding taking ms vitamins, and getting more sunlight and getting rid of negative thinking and negative talk that we use to talk to ourselves and to others, and allowing ourselves to learn how to live life again.

* extreme ms vitamin deficiencies - the medical community is finding that many cases of MultipleSclerosis can result in vitamin deficiencies. More extreme vitamin deficiencies in magnesium and calcium have been found to increase the severity and the frequency of the appearance of muscle tightness, ms muscle spasms and muscle cramping in the average person, but for those of us with Multiple Sclorosis, magnesium and calciumis deficiencies can cause often much more severe problems with multiple sclerosis spasms, multiple sclerosis tremors, or ms spasticity.

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How does MS Affect the Nervous System?

Multiple sclerosis nervous system

Multiple Sclerosis is an autoimmune disorder, where the body attacks itself as if it is a foreign invader that it needs to defend itself against.   MultipleSclerosis is known for attacking the central nervous system and causing scarring or lesions that can be seen on mri tests, which are used for determining if Multiple Sclorosis is the culprit for the set of symptoms that the patient is experiencing.

Multiple Sclerosis is most often seen to cause scarring or damage to the myelin sheath along the spinal cord or cause scarring or lesions through out the brain. The symptoms of Multiple Sc or MS can vary greatly because it depends on which part of the nervous system that is being targeted in each particular case of Multiple Schlerosis. 

The ms scarring or ms lesions, which result because of present of M S in the body, can interfere in the transfer of the nerve signals from the brain to the other parts of the body.  This can result in the nerve signals either being block or confused or it can result in the signal becoming more intermittent, where the nerve signal is only transmitted part of the time. 

Since the brain is the master controller of the body, which sends instructions to different parts of the body to instruct the different parts of the body on how to function, the blocking or scrambling of the nerve signals or instructions sent from the brain can affect a huge amount of ways that the body functions on a regular basis.  The effects on the ms brain can be mild to severe and can often result in more extreme MS symptoms, which can reduce how well the body functions.

There are many effects that Multiple Sclerosis has on the Multiple Sclerosis brain, that can affect what we can or can not do.

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Dating after Being Diagnosed with MS?

ms dating, dating ms

Can those of us that have been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis ever date or develop a meaningful relationship again?

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Is this even a possibility?

I think so, because you never know when out of the blue you will meet someone that you connect with on a very different level that just seems to understand you, in spite of what you are physically going through because of Multiple Sclerosis. This is what happened to me.

About 2 years after I was diagnosed with a severe case of MultipleSclerosis, I was doing what I could to try to be around people as often as I could. After all, I reasoned that I still needed social connections after I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclorosis and if I did not find a way for me to be around other people where I enjoyed their company, I thought that I would not survive what I was going through at the time because of M S entering my life.

But, I was starting to become discourage, because even though I was around other people, I did not feel like they really understood me for me. Have you ever felt like you did not really connect with those that were around you, like some how you just did not “fit in” or belong where you were? I have felt like this off and on through out my life. Most people have. But after you are given the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis, the importance of finding people that you feel like you can connect with – that seem to understand you as a person – becomes so much more important.

Dating was something that crossed my mind off and on, after I was diagnosed with Multiple S or Multiple Scerosis, but who would want to date me? After all, I could not physically do what I did before Multiple Sclerosis attacked my body and caused a myriad of often intense physical problems to where I was not functioning much too many days of the week.

But then it happened. I met someone new that was just a chance meeting and some how we connected in a totally different way.

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How does MS Affect how well our Brains Function?

MS brain, MS cognitive and MS memory

Multiple Sclerosis is considered an autoimmune disorder, where the body becomes confused and attacks itself, as if it is a foreign invader that the body needs to defend itself against.  M S is known for attacking the nerves, and especially the myelin sheath along the spinal cord and various parts of the brain.

Our bodies are at least 60% nerves and our brains are at least 80% nerves and because of this, MultipleSclerosis can affect many parts of our entire bodies.  The myelin sheath, along the spinal cord and the brain are the 2 main areas of the body that Multiple Schlerosis often attacks.  Multiple Sclorosis or multiple scarring can also be a result through out other nerves throughout the body, but the ms tests do not detect the other scarring throughout the body as well as it can be detected in the brain on the spinal cord. 

MS scarring and ms nerve damage in the brain can result in a whole host of symptoms, that can affect how well we function on an intermittent basis or on a more consistent, daily basis.

MS scarring can result in brain function problems that can affect many ways that our bodies can function. A general term that includes many of the problems that our brains can experience i s called cognitive brain function.

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How does MS affect memory?

Multiple Sclerosis and memory

Because Multiple Sclerosis is known to attack nerves and especially the spinal cord and the brain, which is composed of 80% nerve cells, MS can affect memory in a few different ways.
MS brain

MS attacks the Blood Brain Barrier or the BBB, which surrounds and protects the brain from heavy metals and other toxins from entering the brain. MS attacks, MS damages and degrades the Blood Brain Barrier, which results in there being holes in the BBB, which allow toxins to enter the brain and cause confusion and/or damage to the brain.

Because MultipleSclerosis can cause damage to the brain, which can result in scarring in the brain, depending on where the scarring is found in the brain, this can affect many different functions that the brain performs on a daily basis.

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What tests are performed for Diagnosing MS?

Diagnosing Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis not as easy to diagnose as you might think.  Since MultipleSclerosis can include any combination of a broad range of symptoms, it can sometimes be difficult for doctors to determine if a person has M S or some other disease, like Lyme disease, a spinal bacterial infection, or some other nerve disorder, which may be creating an environment that sets the person up for the symptoms that they are experiencing.

The initial symptoms of MS can vary from mild to severe and can come and go over a period of time, typically for 2 to 5 years before it can be determined if indeed Multiple Sclorosis is present for creating the symptoms that are being observed.  Before a few tests for Multiple Sclerosis are performed, the doctors usually ask a series of questions of the person experiencing a group of symptoms that appear to be nerve-related in nature.  Once the initial information is gathered, the doctor usually tests a series of responses of the person’s body.  This can include testing the person’s balance, ability to stand, ability to walk, test the degree of numbness and its location, check for unexplained nerve pain, and whatever else appears to be something that can help in determining the degree of the loss of the ability to function in different parts of the body.

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What are the Effects of Multiple Sclerosis on the Immune System?

Immune system multiple sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis attacks nerves or nerve cells throughout out bodies.  MultipleSclerosis is known for attacking and causing damage to the myelin sheath that surround, protect and insulate the spinal cord. M S also tends to attack the brain, and in particular the Blood Brain Barrier, which surrounds and protects the brain.  Most cases of Multiple Sclorosis tend to result in damage to the nerve cells thorough out the body, which usually results in scarring after each ms attack, ms exacerbation or ms relapse.

 Muliple Sclerosis also weakens the immune system, setting us up to end up with frequent infections more often that are difficult for our bodies to fight back against.  Just about any kind of infection appears to become a possibility for those with MS, but there are certain types of infections that are seen more often in those with Multiple Sclerosis.

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Can dietary changes help those with MS to find relief to their symptoms of MS?

Ms Diet or Diet and Multiple Sclerosis

There are a few diets that recommended for those of us with Multiple Sclerosis, which may help in reducing the severity and frequency of MS.  Since not every case of MultipleSclerosis is the same or even as similar as you think it would be.

Dietary changes have been used with MS patients, in some cases for 10 to 20 years with some success being noted for helping to reduce the symptoms of MS.  It has also been documented, in many cases that certain dietary changes can help to reduce the number of ms relapses, ms exacerbations, or ms attacks. Which are experienced by those that have been given the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis.

 What Diets are there for Helping to Reduce MS Symptoms?

 The main diets that are being used for those given the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis are as follows:

• MS Swank diet
• Best Bet diet for ms
  
  

What are the Effects of Multiple Sclerosis on the Immune System?

Immune system multiple sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis attacks nerves or nerve cells throughout out bodies. MultipleSclerosis is known for attacking and causing damage to the myelin sheath that surround, protect and insulate the spinal cord. M S also tends to attack the brain, and in particular the Blood Brain Barrier, which surrounds and protects the brain.  Most cases of Multiple Sclorosis tend to result in damage to the nerve cells thorough out the body.

Muliple Sclerosis also weakens the immune system, setting us up to end up with frequent infections more often that are difficult for our bodies to fight back against. Just about any kind of infection appears to become a possibility for those with MS, but there are certain types of infections that are seen more often in those with Multiple Sclerosis.

It is way too easy for those of us with Multiple S or Multiple Sclerose to have a problem with having one infection after the other, sometime for 3 to 6 months straight because of Multiple Sclerosis immune system being weakened, our immune systems do not respond as they should.  Our immune systems can become so much weaker after just one infection that it takes too long for our bodies to recover after an infection.

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What are Relapses, Exacerbations and Attacks in MS?

ms relapses, ms exacerbations, ms attacks 

Multiple Sclerosis is an autoimmune disorder, where the body attacks itself, as if it is a foreign invader.  The majority of what is attacked and damaged is ms nerves or ms neurons.  The attacks, relapses or exacerbations are all different words for describing what it is called during the periods of time where the body is under attack by whatever is the cause of Multiple Sclerosis.

MS exacerbations, relapses and attacks are pretty much different names for describing the same thing.  Basically ms relapses, attacks and exacerbations are where the myelin sheath on the spinal cord, the Blood Brain Barrier or other nerves throughout the body are damaged, degrading the nerves that are attacked and resulting in scarring in place of the damaged nerve cells.

The result of the ms relapses cause our bodies to show function less than it could before the relapse occurred. The relapses are often followed by some recovery from the loss of function during the relapses, where the body appears to go into remission. MS research is helping us to understand more of the effect of Multiple Sclerosis on the body with relapses being followed by partial or maybe even full recovery of what was lost during the attack.

Triggers to MS relapses. exacerbations and attacks are:

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Can Reducing Stress Help increase MS Stem Cells?

ms stress

Finding ways to reduce stress for those of us with Multiple Sclerosis does more for reducing our MS symptoms than researchers and doctors alike ever knew before. When those of us with M S, stress out over things in our lives, just adds to making our symptoms worse. Our over reactions to stress can actually set up our systems for a MS exacerbation or a MS relapse to occur more often.

MS research is revealing so much more about how our over reactions to stress, for those of us with MultipleSclerosis, can actually stimulate ms demyelination of our spinal cords and maybe even our brains, which can result in relapses or exacerbations of our Multiple Sclerosis symptoms.

Finding ways to reduce stress helps to calm down our over reactive nervous systems, which often is a result of Multiple Sclorosis is one of the many callenges of medical science. Reducing how stressed out we feel can actually help the body to relax and rest, which will stimulate stem cells to be produced in our bodies. These stem cells help to repair the damage to the myelin sheath, which insulates and protects the spinal cord, in addition to helping to repair the Blood Brain Barrier, which surrounds and protects the brain.

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