How does MS Affect the Nervous System?

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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?

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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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