Monday, June 22, 2009
What are the 3 Worst MS Symptoms that You are Struggling With?
Monday, June 15, 2009
Coping with Life Again After Being Diagnosed with MS
Coping with Multiple Sclerosis
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.
To read more click on the link - coping with ms .
Monday, June 8, 2009
Can Focusing our Minds on Healing Help those with MS?
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.
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
* 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.
* yoga for ms - includes much of these techniques
Thursday, June 4, 2009
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.
Click on the link to read more - ms mind .
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Friday, May 29, 2009
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.
Click on the link to read more -- ms facts .
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
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,
Click on the link to read more - ms nerve damage.
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
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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Saturday, May 16, 2009
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:
Click on the link to read more of this article -- information ms.
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Monday, May 11, 2009
Why are most cases of MS so Difficult to Diagnose?
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.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
What causes Spasms, Twitching and Tremors in MS?
Friday, April 17, 2009
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.
Click on the link to read more -- Multiple Sclerosis nervous system
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Dating after Being Diagnosed with MS?
Can those of us that have been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis ever date or develop a meaningful relationship again?
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.
Click on the link for more information - ms dating.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009
How does MS Affect how well our Brains Function?
MS brain, MS cognitive and MS memory
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.
Click on the link to read more - ms brain function.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
How does MS affect 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
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.
Click on the link to read more -- ms memory loss.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
What tests are performed for Diagnosing MS?
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.
Click on the link to read more -- Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis.
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
What are the Effects of Multiple Sclerosis on the Immune System?
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.
Click on the link to learn more - multiple sclerosis immune system.
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Monday, March 23, 2009
Can dietary changes help those with MS to find relief to their symptoms of MS?
Ms Diet or Diet and Multiple Sclerosis
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.
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
Saturday, March 21, 2009
What are the Effects of Multiple Sclerosis on the Immune System?
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.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
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.
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:
Click on the link to read more - reducing ms relapses.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Can Reducing Stress Help increase MS Stem Cells?
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.
Click on the link to read more -- reduce MS Stress.
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