What are the possible causes of MS?

What causes ms?

Multiple Sclerosis is considered by the medical community to be an autoimmune disorder, where the body becomes confused in some way to where it attacks itself, as if it is a foreign invader, that the body needs to defend itself against.

MultipleSclerosis is a term that covers a broad range of symptoms that are not usually the same set of symptoms from one case of Multiple Sclorosis or M S to the next.  Since there appears not to be any 2 cases of Multiple Schlerosis exactly alike, there is a broad range of what is suspected to be potential causes for multiple sclerosis.

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Stress MS: Reducing Stress with Multiple Sclerosis Helps Reduce MS Attacks and MS Symptoms

Finding ways to reduce MS stress for those of us that have the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis does more for reducing our MS symptoms than researchers and doctors alike ever knew before.

When those of us with stressing out over things in our lives, this just adds to making our Multiple Sclerosis symptoms worse. Our over reactions to stress can actually set up our systems for a MS attack, 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 Multiple Sclerosis, can actually stimulate MS demyelination of our spinal cords and maybe even our brains, which can result in more frequent and more severe relapses of our Multiple Sclerosis symptoms.

Finding ways to reduce MS stress helps to calm down our over reactive nervous systems, which often is a result of Multiple Sclerosis. Reducing how stressed out we feel can actually help the body and finding ways to relax and rest can actually stimulate stem cells to be produced in our bodies.

This is a way for our bodies to start to repair the damage to the myelin sheath, which insulates and protects the spinal cord, in addition to starting to help to repair the Blood Brain Barrier, which surrounds and protects the brain.

I have tried many different ways to reduce the Stress that I have been feeling sometimes too much of the time, to reduce the effects of stress on my nervous system and help to reduce my MS attacks, that have been multiplied in how often they appear and it has been more difficult for me to find anything that appears to work for me.

But I finally found a form of meditation that actually works for reducing MS stress and it doesn't require spending hours to learn how to do it and it is so easy to do too!

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What causes Multiple Sclerosis?

What causes ms?

Multiple Sclerosis is considered by the medical community to be an autoimmune disorder, where the body becomes confused in some way to where it attacks itself, as if it is a foreign invader, that the body needs to defend itself against.

MultipleSclerosis is a term that covers a broad range of symptoms that are not usually the same set of symptoms from one case of Multiple Sclorosis or M S to the next.Since there appears not to be any 2 cases of Multiple S or Multiple Schlerosis exactly alike, there is a broad range of what is suspected to be potential causes for multiple sclerosis.MS causes can vary as much as the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis do themselves.

Since the disease process of Multiple Sclerosis is not well understood by the medical community, the most current Multiple Sclerosis research, which is being done to work towards a cure for MS, includes going many different directions at the same time, in the hopes that a cure will be found.

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MS Stress: How can Stress-related Emotions Affect MS?

To those of us diagnosed with MS stress plays a major role in causing more severe and more frequent MS attacks, exacerbations and relapses.

Multiple Sclerosis is an autoimmune response, where the body attacks itself, resulting in damage to the myelin sheath, along the spinal cord or possibly even damage to the Blood Brain Barrier or BBB that surrounds and protects the brain. This can result in damage to either the mylein sheath or to the MS brain, which results in MS scarring or MS palques that results, that can be seen on MS mri test results.

A wide range of MS symptoms can result, which can vary from mild to more severe in intensity and frequency. Most cases of Multiple Sclerosis are characterized by MS exacerbations or MS relapses, which are often followed by MS remissions. During the periods of remission, the body is repairing the damage to the myelin sheath or to the brain.

MS research is revealing more about how the body works to repair damage to the myelin sheath and the BBB (blood brain barrier). MS stress adds to how severe and how often the relapses and exacerbations can become. If we can find a way to reduce our over reactions to stress, MS research is finding that this not only reduces our MS symptoms, this can acually help our bodies to start to produce more of the ms stem cells that can help to start to repair damage to the myelin sheath.

I have found that with my own case of Multiple Sclerosis, that the more I stress out about anything, the more this causes my nervous system to short circuit, making my symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis go totally crazy. I have tried many things, in an effort to find ways to reduce my reactions to stress. It has taken me a few years to find anything that really helps to relax my body and reset where my brain defines what is stress and what is not stress.

I have tried many kinds of meditation and many of them helped with reducing some of my Multiple Sclerosis symptoms, but not enough to make a big enough difference in how severe my symptoms often became. Within the last 2 years, I finally found a type of meditation that helps so much more with reducing my often extreme levels of MS stress that I sometimes feel all too often. This type of meditation also helps with reducing my stress-related emotions that actually cause my MS symptoms to become so much worse, that they would be otherwise.

If done consistently over a period of a few months, this type of meditation helps to retrain the brain to redefine what it considers to be stress. This really works for helping to calm down the over reactions of my MS nerve function problems.

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What Treatments are Used for Reducing MS Symptoms?

Treat Multiple Sclerosis

The cause of Multiple Sclerosis is not well understood and the number of cases of Multiple Sclorosis, which are being diagnosed are on the increase, as more and more cases of the Multiple Sclerosis are appearing in many more countries around the world.

In response to this disturbing trend, the medical communities around the world are making more of an effort to work together to focus their efforts in their search for a cure to Multiple Sclerosis. In an attempt to slow the progression of MS and to speed up the process in finding some type of solution to the problem, the MS research is heading in several different directions at the same time.  

More doctors are turning to alternative medicine or complimentary medicine in an attempt to find something that can help to bring relief to the MS symptoms that their patients are suffering from.  Complimentary medicine includes the use of prescription drugs as a Multiple Sclerosis treatment, combined with using other ways to aid in reducing the often severe symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis.

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How important is it for those with MS to Find Social Connections?

MS support and MS social connections

How important is it for those with M S to Find Social Connections?

As our MS symptoms become worse, and our degree of ms disability increases, is it even a reasonable idea that we can find social connections?

Is the effort worth finding social connections after we have been given the Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis?

The answer is -- Yes.

It is not only worth it for those of us that have been given the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis to go to whatever efforts we need to for us to be able to make new social connections with the world around us -- it is vital for us to find a way for us to maintain or even forge new social connection with other people around us.

For us to at least survive or possibly even thrive, while we are going through all of the ups and downs that Multiple Sclerosis has inflicted on our bodies and has brought into our lives, we definitely have to find a way to make social connections -- with both those that have M S and those that do not.

We need to do this for several reasons.

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MS Memory: Remembering Good Memories about Ourselves

MS Memory

Think of something that happened in your life to you that is a funny memory – something that reminds you about an experience that you had, before Multiple Sclerosis entered your life.  Ask your friends to remind you of the a funny memory that you shared with them in the past about yourself.  Reminiscing about the good times or about the good memories in your life does help to relieve the stress that we can feel sometimes from how MS memory problems can reduce how well our memories can work.

Even if you have problems remembering what you are doing or what happened to you last week or what someone said to you recently, you still can remember something about yourself. You are still you.  That hasn't changed.

How do I know this, because I have been there too. I have battled with more severe MS memory problems off and on, since I was given the Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis.  It is not easy when you could remember things before MS, but now you can not remember.

Let me give you an example of what I am talking about.  I have a funny story that has to do with me and my good memory before MultipleSclerosis entered my life. 

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MS Stem Cell Research: Can it Help Repair MS Nerve Damage?

MS Stem Cell Research or Multiple Sclerosis Stem Cell Research

Stem Cell research is a research being done to determine if stem cells can be used to replicate other cells throughout the body to help stimulate the body to repair damaged cells. In this vein of thinking, stem cell researchers are also looking into ways to adapt the use of stem cells for helping to regenerate nerve cells, as in the case of spinal cord injuries or for those of us that have been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.

This is a potentially good way for those of us with Multiple Sclerosis, since in most cases of MS, the myelin sheath along the spinal cord is damaged. MS nerve damage can often contribute to many of the MS symptoms that are present in the majority of the many cases of Multiple Sclerosis, that are appearing in many different countries around the world.

Although Stem Cell research is still in its infancy and it not a tried and true method for finding ways to repair the damage to the spinal cord, there is still hope that one day, stem cells will be a more widely used and effective method of helping to repair the damage that appears in Multiple Sclerosis.

MS Stem Cell research has the potential for helping those of us with Multiple Sclerosis to be given a chance to repair the damage to the myelin sheath along the spinal cord, not just chase the Multiple Sclerosis symptoms in an attempt for us to find relief to our suffering because of MS.

Multiple Sclerosis myelin on the spinal cord is damaged, resulting in scarring or removal of the myelin sheath, which protects the spinal cord and allows the nerve signals to travel from the brain, through the nerves along the spinal cord and throughout the rest of the body.

Click on the link to read more - MS Stem Cell Research

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Connecting Socially after being diagnosed with MS

Social Interactions and MS

Multiple Sclerosis can result in ms symptoms, that can vary from mild to severe, that can often result in those of us with the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis feeling like we are alone and more isolated from the world around us.  The worse your disability becomes, because of MS, the worse the social disconnect can become. 

When the more extreme overwhelming MS fatigue is present, this can make it difficult for us to have the energy to participate in much of the daily or at least weekly social interactions that we were involved in before Multiple Sclorosis entered our lives.  Multiple Sclerosis fatigue can cause our connections with other people to be reduced or even disappear from our daily routine.  Our social connections can also dry up simply because we can not physically do what we were able to do before the symptoms of MS appeared.

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Multiple Sclerosis Bladder Infections: How can they Affect MS Symptoms?

Multiple Sclerosis bladder:

Multiple Sclerosis is known for weakening the immune system and making it so much easier for us to end up with so many more infections, than the average person with out MS, will ever seem to know. For those of us with Multiple Sclerosis infections can set us up for MS relapses to occur.

Infections can sometimes influence how crazy our ms symptoms can become by actually aggravating our already over reactive nervous systems. Infections don't always trigger ms attacks, but they can set up our bodies for being one step closer to the conditions that promote ms attacks to occur.

If the infections are more severe and we have a problem already with over reacting to either ms stress, ms insomnia, ms fatigue, or anything else that can over tax our bodies or further over stimulate our nervous systems, the combination of any of these things can actually lead to an ms attack or ms relapse.

This is why is is so important for those of us diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis that we be more careful about resting and reducing how e can over react to stress, when an infection is present. In addition, there are other things that we can do to minimize or avoid ms attacks or ms relapses, when we find that we do have an infection. These can include cutting out foods that we have found that aggravate our ms symptoms, adding foods to our diets that help to boost the immune system, and taking supplements (vitamins and/or herbs) to boost the immune system and minimize ms relapses, as well as help to improve how quickly we recover from the infection or infections.

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Different types of Exercise for MS

MS and exercises:

A Multiple Sclerosis alternative to using prescription drugs alone as a treatment for Muliple Sclerosis is to go for intense ms physical therapy or using Multiple Sclerosis and exercise as a way of coaxing our bodies into redeveloping muscle strength and with stimulating neural pathways to help those of with MS to gradually start to function again.

Both exercises done on your own and going to physical therapy can help those with MS to improve in how well they can function and can help to reduce MS symptoms.

There are many different types of Multiple Sclerosis exercises

which can be used for those of us that have been given the Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis,

that can help to reduce the frequency and severity of our MS symptoms.

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Circulation Problems and MS

Multiple Sclerosis or MS can affect so many parts of our body and cause so many of our body’s functions to not work as they should.  One of the things that is affected is our circulation.

Through a complex network of arteries, veins, capillaries and other blood vessels that looks like the roots of a large tree, the blood in our bodies circulates blood.  Circulating blood in our bodies brings oxygen, nutrients and water to each of our cells, along with removing waste products.  Waste products are removed from our bodies in several different ways, including through lymph drainage, through the movement of blood, through our sweat, through urine and through bowel movements.

MS can often reduce how well our circulation functions, which reduces how much oxygen can travel to different parts of our bodies.  Each and every cell of our bodies needs oxygen to survive and without it the cells will become sick and die.  Our bodies are constantly producing and replacing sick and damaged cells.  But, when there is not enough oxygen circulating in our bodies,our bodies will reach a point where too many of the cells can be sick at one time and that causes more MS exacerbations, when the circulation of our blood is compromised.  Reduced or sluggish circulation results in our MS symptoms becoming so much worse than they would be other wise.

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My Initial Signs and Symptoms of MS

The cause of Multiple Sclerosis is unknown.

Because of this, there is many different types of MS research being performed as there is a race for finding the Multiple Sclerosis cure that can help to reduce the symptoms of MS.

MultipleSclerosis can also demyelinate or damage the myelin sheath on the spinal cord that can leave scarring or Multiple Sclerosis brain effects can be seen such as cognitive problems, trouble with speaking or memory problems.

MS tests are performed to determine if a person has Multiple Sclerosis or Multiple s, using mri or magnetic resonance imaging machines.

Multiple Sclorosis attacks the body, as if it is a foreign invader. Multiple Sclerosis nerve damage can result that replaced the damaged nerves with scarring that can interrupt the nerve signal traveling from the brain to other parts of the body. Depending on how severe the MS scarring that results is, this can determine how severe the Multiple Sclerosis effects are on the body.

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Is Multiple Sclerosis Genetic or not?

Multiple Sclerosis Genetics

The medical community has been considering if there may be a genetic factor that can contribute to the presence of Multiple Sclerosis in the body.

MS Research covers a broad range of the possible causes of Multiple Sclerosis, which includes doing research on seeing if they can locate a particular gene or pairs of genes that may be responsible for setting up the body to attack itself and result in the presence of the nerve damage and scarring that is a result
from MS.

Since the MS Research is still in the process of being performed, it is too early to tell if there is a Multiple Sclerosis genetic link that is setting up the body to attack itself as if it is a foreign invader.  The research in inconclusive at this point, but there is also the idea that genetics may play a role in setting up the body for it to be attacked by something else that can itself cause the MS nerve damage that results in many of the cases of MS.

I have found, while doing my own research on MS, that there is much more of the probability that Multiple Sclerosis starts out not being related to genetics.  But the way it works that when a woman with MS is pregnant that during the pregnancy any damage to the mother's chromosomes have a much higher probability of influencing the type of damage that can be replicated in the baby's chromosomes that can be passed on to the baby.  If generation after generation passes on the damaged genes, then yes, MS can become a genetic disorder. But, from my point of view, I don’t think that it necessarily starts out as a genetic disorder, unless there are other members of your family from either the same generation or from different generations that are related in some way (examples would be your grandfather, grandmother, aunt, uncle, cousins, mother, father, brother or sister).

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What is Multiple Sclerosis?

What is Multiple Sclerosis?

Multiple Sclerosis is considered by the medical community to be an autoimmune disorder, where the body becomes confused in some way to where it attacks itself, as if it is a foreign invader that the body needs to defend itself against.

Multiple Sclerosis is a term that covers a broad range of MS symptoms that are not usually the same or may not even be similar from one case of Multiple Sclerosis to the next. Since there appears not to be any 2 cases of MS that are alike, in the severity, frequency and combination of the broad range of MS symptoms that are being experienced, this has resulted in there being several theories as to the suspected cause or causes of Multiple Sclerosis.

Click on the link to read more -- What is Multiple Sclerosis

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MS, Nerve Dysfunction, and Passing Out

Multiple Sclerosis can set us up for many physical problems, which can vary from case to case. This can sometimes result in more unusual MS symptoms appearing, which may not be considered as something that we would typically associate with Multiple S or MultipleSclerosis

The Multiple Sclerosis symptoms can affect many different parts of the bodies and cause us to function less than we would have been able to function before Multiple Scerosis entered our lives.

Sometimes Mutiple Scerosis can also cause our bodies to do some things that even the doctors are confused, amazed or even stumped by.

My particular case of MS is one of those kinds of cases of Multiple Sclorosis, that sometimes surprises the doctors with how confused my nervous system appears to be sometimes. I sometimes have the weirdest symptoms of MS, at least from the doctor's point of view, that appear for a while and then just go away without any explanation appearing to shed any light on what was going on at that point.

Click on the link to read more - Passing Out and MS.

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How do MS patients React to Heat and Humidity?

Multiple Sclerosis Heat

Those that have been given the Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis can be affected very severely when in warm rooms or during the hot summer months and it can be more than unbearable to the MS patient to where the person can feel like they can’t breathe or they feel like passing out. Overheating is frequent and it is difficult for those with Multiple Sclerosis cool off. Saunas and hot tubs should be avoided by those that already have the Multiple Sclerosis symptom of over reacting to heat.

Multiple Sclerosis cooling

I guess it would be considered a treatment for Multiple Sclerosis when finding ways to cool off from the Multiple Sclerosis symptoms that can result from an over reaction to heat. Methods of cooling down can include using ice packs, drinking very cold or ice water, using MS cooling vest for MS patients and cooling hats, which have been specifically designed for those that have MS symptoms that include the heat sensitivity and staying in well air conditioned rooms. It is thought by the medical community that MS immune system is weakened and that the frequent overheating that many MS patients go through can be a result of frequent infections of many different kinds.

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At what age does Multiple Sclerosis tend to occur?

Multiple sclerosis age:

At what age does Multiple Sclerosis tend to occur?

The onset of Multiple Sclerosis is typically in the late 20s to 40s, but this can vary some based on each of the 4 different types of Multiple Sclerosis.

The 4 types of Multiple Sclerosis that are recognized internationally are:

Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis or Remitting Multiple Sclerosis

Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis or Progressive MS

Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

Progressive Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis

Since the number of cases of MS are increasing every year and appearing in more countries around the world, it has become a worlwide medical crisis that is drawing the attention of the medical comunities around the world to join forces in doing much more ms research in the hopes of finding a Multiple Sclerosis cure.

Click on the link to read more -- Types of MS .

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What New Discoveries are there in MS Research?

Multiple Sclerosis News

Multiple Sclerosis Research is advancing into some interesting areas. For example, did you know that our nervous systems have specific cells called glial cells that are designated as the nerve maintenance and repair cells for the entire nervous system?  The job of these cells is to repair damage to the myelin sheath along the spinal cord, that insulates and aids in the nerve signal transmission along the spinal cord. The nerve maintenance and repair cells also repair any damage to the Blood Brain Barrier or BBB, a membrane that surrounds and protects the brain from toxins being able to enter into the brain.

Multiple Sclerosis information:

Our brains can not defend themselves against toxins and once there is damage to the BBB and toxins enter the brain, the brain has none of its own ability to remove toxins that are not suppose to be there in the first place and this means that if the toxins that do enter the brain attack nerve cells, damage to the brain cells themselves can result.  MultipleSclerosis can attack nerve cells, including membranes, like the BBB, or any other nerve cells throughout the entire body.  This can include the mylein sheath that insulates and protects the spinal cord, the BBB brain, or any other nerves or membranes though out our bodies.

MS brain lesions are a result of the Multiple Sclerosis attacking the brain and causing scarring.  The scarring can actually interfere with brain functions, such as cognitive abilities, speech, writing and reading (since the brain interprets and reorganizes works for us to be able to make sense of what we can read and write), memory, recognizing faces, concepts and places we have been previously, and connecting with our surroundings.

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Fatigue, Vitamin Deficiencies and MS

Multiple Sclerosis Fatigue:

Fatigue can be a major problem in connection with the majority of the cases of MS. The fatigue can be mild to much more severe to the point where it can be much more difficult for the person that has been given the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis to function much at all.

Symptoms of MS can also include one or more of the following:

* weakened immune system and frequent infections

* spasms or twitches

* loss of bladder control (or incontinence)

* intense nerve pain that is either constant or comes and goes (that can be intense at one point
in the body or it can travel along the nerves like sciatica)

* numbness, tingling or pins and needles feelings often in the hands, arms, legs or feet

* problems with different parts of the body functioning as they should, this includes most parts of the body (arms, legs, hands, feet, etc.)

* vision, hearing or speech problems

and others. For each person that has been given the diagnosis of MS, any, all or none of the symptoms can be present.

These MS symptoms can be mild to severe for each case and can vary greatly in how severe or frequent relapses, attacks or exacerbations can appear.

Multiple Sclerosis and Vitamins: Certain vitamin deficiencies can cause more extreme fatigue, or can at least aggravate the problem of fatigue, making it appear to be much worse than it would be otherwise. It is highly recommended that you find a doctor that can test to see what your vitamin deficiencies may be for your particular case of MS to determine which vitamins may be needed for your own case of MS.

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Reactions of Nerves, Passing Out and MS

What is Multiple Sclerosis?

Multiple Sclerosis is considered an autoimmune disorder where the body attacks itself and causes damage or demyleination of the spinal cord. Multiple Sclerosis demyelinating of the spinal cord can result in scarring or nerve damage along the spine, throughout the brain or throughout any area of the network of nerves throughout the body.

MultipleSclerosis causes scarring or “sclerosis” that can be a result of nerve damage that interrupts the transmission of the nerve signals throughout the body. This can include the disruption of nerve signals that are transmitted though out the body or the signal that travels through the spinal cord that sends instruction throughout the body on how each part of the body should be functioning.

Multiple Sclerosis symptoms or MS Symptoms can cause a broad range of symptoms that involve the eyes, the hands, arms, legs or feet in various ways. MS can cause numbness or pins and needles can result or a nerve pain that is either constant or come and goes. Depending on the degree of scarring or the degree that the nerve signals or confused the symptoms of ms can either be mild or severe.

Multiple sclerosis symptoms can also include multiple sclerosis nerve reactions, such as spasms, twitches or ticks that can be mild to severe that result in uncontrollable movements of the legs, feet, arms or hands.

Multiple sclerosis nerve responses feeling like passing out or definitely losing consciousness. This MS symptom can be aggravated by a few different things.

There are ways to reduce passing out and other over reactions of the nerves.

Click on the link to read more -- MS and Passing out .

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Yoga MS: How can Doing Yoga help those of us with Multiple Sclerosis?

Yoga MS: How can doing Yoga help, those of us with Multiple Sclerosis to function better again?

Physical activity and MS exercise are extremely important for individuals with Multiple Sclerosis. Yoga is becoming much more recognized as an excellent means of reducing the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis,


Click on the link to read more -- yoga ms

Multiple Sclerosis is an autoimmune disease in which the body's defensive immune system attacks and destroys the fatty tissue, called myelin, which surrounds the nerves in the brain and spinal cord. These myelin sheaths perform the same function as insulation around an electrical wire. Without the myelin insulation, nerve impulses from brain to body can short out and become confused, misdirected, or be completely blocked.

Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms can include numbness and/or tingling in the extremities, weakness, lack of coordination and/or balance, gait difficulties, slurring of speech, blurred or double vision, bowel and bladder dysfunction, vertigo, and heat intolerance.

Physical activity and MS exercise is extremely important for individuals with MS, and yoga is now recognized as an excellent means of reducing the symptoms of MS and helping with management of Multiple Sclerosis symptoms, whether the individual manifests little or no outward signs of the disease, or whether they spend most of their time in a wheelchair.

Yoga MS, a holistic fitness exercise program, has been reported to give greater physical flexibility, less fatigue, pain relief, reduced stress and a sense of regaining control of their life. Yoga is gaining popularity as a complementary health approach, where the students’ physicians are recognizing yoga as an appropriate and safe treatment with potentially profound results.

Click on the link to read more -- Yoga for MS.

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How Energy Disturbances can Affect MS Symptoms

Electromagnetic Frequencies (EMFs) and Multiple Sclerosis:

Because we live in a world where many different forms of energy patterns are being transmitted around us, this has to impact our bodies in some way, since our bodies are electrochemical in nature. Because we have television signals, radio signals, microwave signals, cell phone signals, computer signals and many other electromagnetic energy signals transmitted by the many different types of electronic devices in the environment that surrounds our bodies, we have many things that our bodies may not be able to tolerate on a daily basis.

Stress and effect of worsening ms:

Electromagnetic frequencies (EMFs) can create disturbances that can influence our bodies adversely on a daily basis. The disturbances that result can include energy drains, energy surges, concentrated energy sources, scrambling of the energy fields surrounding our bodies, among other types of energy disturbances that can assault our bodies often on a daily basis. These are grouped together and called geopathic stress that can definitely affect our health adversely. Unfortunately, the average person may not know as much about this area as we should know about this area of EMFs, because the information about this area of concern is not well publicized or even explained to us much at all.

How does this affect Multiple Sclerosis symptoms?

Click on the link to read more -- MS Exacerbations and Electro Magnetic Disturbances.

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Social connections After being Diagnosed with MS

ms support or Social connections with MS

I don’t know about you, but this is a sensitive topic for me. I have found that in dealing with my own case of Multiple Sclerosis that because my case was so severe at the beginning, I went from being a very socially inactive and a physically active person to someone who was put on the side lines for a while and social interactions just dried up for a period of time. It isn’t like I had a choice in the matter.

The people that I related to very well before my first major ms attack attempted to still be part of my life at first, but they could no longer relate to me. I couldn’t do the things that I was able to do before the problems that I experienced on a daily basis because of the symptoms of multiple sclerosis that I had a very tough time with. My friends mostly evaporated within the first 2 years of me being given the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis.

Click on the link to find out more -- ms support groups.

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When it’s just One of those days with MS...

Multiple Sclerosis -- How do you “live with it”?

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been having some days, more recently, where I have really been struggling with having more problems with the bad days because of the symptoms of ms -- where I feel so horrible that it has been much more difficult for me to be even be able to get out of bed (it took me 90 minutes after I first woke up just for me to be able to get out of bed the other day).

What do you do, when it’s just “One of those days with Multiple Sclerosis”?

What do you do on the bad days for you to just to be able to function some?

You know what I mean…when you are battling with the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis and you are having “one of those days”, where it seems like your body is fighting against you instead of working with you, how does this make you feel and what do you do about it?

Click on the link to read more -- Living with MS.

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What Types of MS are there?

Multiple Sclereosis types:

What are the different types of Multiple Sclerosis?

There are 4 types of Multiple Sclerosis that are recognized internationally. These 4 types of MS are categorized under different labels. It is thought that this may be done this way because some of the different types of MS appear to be related, but somehow different as far as their specific symptoms that tend to be characteristic of each type of Multiple Sclerosis certain disease progression.

Click on the link to read more -- Types of MS.

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Whole Body Vibration Exercise: How can it Help with Taming MS Symptoms?

Whole Body Vibration Exercise and MS:

What is whole body vibration exercise and can it help with reducing the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis?

Whole body vibration uses sonic vibration that helps to exercise the muscles in a way that your body responds as if it is actually working out much more strenuously than it actually is, making the muscles increase muscle strength, as well as giving your body other benefits without over exerting that body.

In the case of Multiple Sclerosis fatigue can be a big factor that can make it more difficult for those with this diagnosis to exercise and still be able to end up with the benefits that we need to help us to be able to physically function better.

Can whole body vibration help with regenerating nerve cells, damaged by MS attacking the nerves?

The thinking of the medical community is changing more towards the idea that intense physical therapy or exercise can help to regenerate the nerves that are connected to the muscles that are being exercised in this way.

How does doing whole body vibration exercises help those of us that have been give the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis?

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Vitamin D Multiple Sclerosis: Can Taking Extra Vitamin D Reduce Depression in MS?

Depression in Multiple Sclerosis cause big problems, since it increases the amount of stress that we are experiencing and stress has been found in MS research to contribute in a big way to causing MS attacks to become much worse in both frequency and severity.

When it comes to taking extra vitamin D Multiple Sclerosis can be kept at bay in a few different ways.

One of the ways that taking extra vitamin D can help those of with Multiple Sclerosis is to greatly reduce or possibly even eliminate depression in MS. There are a few different factors that can contribute to depression in Multiple Sclerosis.

Vitamin D has been found to have a protective factor, when it comes to Multiple Sclerosis, since it does help to prevent or at least reduce how often the MS attacks appear, in addition to reducing how severe the MS attacks and their effects on damaging nerves can become.

Vitamin D has a much more dramatic effect on helping to reduce the depression that can often be found in many cases of Multiple Sclerosis

SAD, depression Multiple Sclerosis:

What is Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and how does it affect those who have been with the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis?

SAD is a seasonal depression that is more common than you think and it is based on how a person’s body reacts to the shortened periods of day light hours during the winter months. SAD can present a much worse dilemma for people that live in countries where they receive less day light hours per day than the average day light hours that a person receives that lives in a country closer to the equator.

vitamin d Multiple Sclerosis:

Our skin produces vitamin D as a response to the skin being exposed to the sun light. Our bodies need the increased levels of vitamin D to boost our immune system and make it easier for our bodies to be able to fight off infections. This is so much more vital to those of us that have been given the Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis, since Multiple Sclerosis sets us up for our immune systems to become much weaker to start with.

For those of us that have been given the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis, it is so much more important for us to find a way to boost our vitamin D levels. I have found that for my own case of MS, that if I do find a way to increase my vitamin D levels, this reduces the number of infections that I end up having each month and it also reduces how frequent and how severe the infections can become when they do occur.

Our brains also produce more serotonin in response to the day light hours when we are up and about doing things during the day light hours, but being out in the sun works much better at boosting the serotonin levels. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that helps to regulate our sleep-wake cycles and helps us to maintain a regular sleep pattern. Ending up with enough sleep is so important for those of us that have been given the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis for several reasons.

The majority of those us that are battling with Multiple Sclerosis have more problems already with decreased levels of serotonin and the problems of the reaction of our bodies to the shortened day light hours just adds to the problems that we already are experiencing because of the effects of MS on our bodies with reducing our serotonin levels.

Serotonin also helps to regulate mood and if the levels of serotonin in our brains drop too low, depression, anxiety and total unrest can result. If the serotonin deficiency is severe enough, the depression can become more severe to the point that it heads towards suicidal tendencies.

What can be done about this?

There are 2 options that I found that can help to reduce this problem.

One option is to take vitamin D tablets or softgels, as either dry vitamin D or as fish oil vitamin D. I tend to take the dry vitamin D in tablet form, so that I can take it in larger doses, as needed (this is recommended by my doctor, since vitamin D is NOT considered as toxic like some other vitamins are if taken at higher doses for longer periods of time).

The Second option is to purchase a device that uses what is called light therapy, which uses light that mimics natural sun light fairly closely that allows you to be able to use it to shine this light on your skin each day to boost vitamin D and serotonin levels in the body and to rid the body of SAD. The benefit of using this type of light is that it eliminates the effects of being exposed to ultra violet radiation that we also are exposed to when we sun bathe. Light therapy can actual help to reduce or maybe even eliminate depression in ms by elevating the amounts of serotonin in the brain, which helps to regulate mood.

Ultraviolet radiation from the sun is known for accelerating the aging process and causing sin cancer. Using the light therapy device allows you to eliminate the exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun, while allowing you to receive the benefits that would be generated in your body from your skin being exposed to sun light on a daily basis. It would be better if you can find a way to sit out in the sun without covering up all of you skin to allow your skin to be able to produce the serotonin and vitamin D that your body needs, but if finding the time and a way for you to get out in the sunlight enough during the day, this is a good alternative.

If you would like more information on the light therapy device that I discuss above or you would like to find out more about what Alternative and Natural ways that we have found that work for reducing the symptoms of MS go to http://www.TamingMultipleSclerosis.com/ to find out more.

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What are your Symptoms of MS?

What symptoms of MS do you find that you have been struggling with?

Do you find that Multiple Sclerosis is making it difficult for you to function on a daily basis, as you could before you were diagnosed with MS?

Have you found any Alternative or Natural ways that have helped to reduce your Multiple Sclerosis symptoms?

Would you like to describe for us what you have found that has helped reduce your symptoms of MS?

Are you looking for an alternative Multiple Sclerosis responds to for your symptoms of ms to be reduced?

We would love to hear from you about what your symptoms of MS are like so that we can provide you with further information on Alternative and Natural ways that we have found to reduce our own symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis that we have also been battling with for 12 years.

We want to do what we can to help you!

If you would like more information about the Alternative and Natural ways that we have found that reduce the symptoms of MS, go to http://www.TamingMultipleSclerosis.com/ to learn more.

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MS blog and MS information

What is an ms blog ?

It is a place you can go online when searching for more ms information .

Is a Multiple Sclerosis blog a good place to go for finding a particular kind of treatment for multiple sclerosis ?

It can be depending on what type of treatments you are looking for or considering for using for your own case of Multiple Sclerosis.

Can a Multiple Sclerosis Blog help me to find information on Alternative and Natural ways for reducing the symptoms of ms?

Our blog is focused on providing you with information on Alternative and Natural ways that have helped us with finding ways that do help to reduce the symptoms of ms .

Our goal is to help you find information that you can discuss with your doctor when searching for ways to reduce your own symptoms of ms.

Do you have any particular set of symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis that you have been having problems finding ways that can help bring you relief from this multiple sclerosis symptom that you would like us to discuss on our ms blog?

If you do have questions or any particular area that you would like more information about, then leave a comment after this post and let us know.

We would like to help you find the ms information that you are searching for to help you find ways for you to find relief to your ms symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis .

For further information on the Alternative and Natural ways that we have found that have helped to relieve our symptoms of MS go to http://www.TamingMultipleSclerosis.com/ to find out more.

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MS Symptoms and Alkalizing the Body

Diet and MS :

Many dietary changes are a major consideration for reducing the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis . There are many ideas and theories as to which dietary changes can help to reduce the symptoms of MS. One of the considerations that may be valid for most cases of Multiple Sclerosis deals with Alkalizing the body.

Alkalizing -- this term refers to the pH of the body. pH is a scale where how chemicals both within the body and out side the body interact. The scale is from 0 to 14 with 0 being the strongest acid environment and 14 being the strongest alkaline environment. To give you something to compare to, water is typically considered neutral on the pH scale (from 6.5 to 7.5) with 7 being considered absolutely neutral. Our bodies should typically have a pH of between 6.5 and 8.

ms nutrition

Why does alkalizing the body matter at all? Well, it turns out that most infections (whether bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungal infections) require an acidic environment for them to be able to thrive and multiply. Infections love an acidic environment. If we can keep our bodies more neutral to alkaline for its overall pH, the majority of infections can’t survive.

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MS Brain Function and my own symptoms of MS

MS brain function problems are more of a common occurrance than you think.

Our brains are the master controllers for our entire body. When something, like Multiple Sclerois, causes scarring or damage to the brain, many things can be much more difficult for us to do on a daily basis or if the scarring is severe enough this can mean that our abilities to function are greatly reduced.

So much of what our bodies can do are so strongly affected by the scrambling or blocking of the nerve signals that the brain sends throughout the rest of the body that there can be a long list of the Multiple Sclerosis symptoms that can result.

Click on the link to read more -- MS brain


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MS Therapy: Can MS Equine Therapy or MS Horse Therapy Help with Learning to Walk Again After MS? MS?

Can MS equine therapy or MS horse therapy be used as a MS therapy for helping retrain a person to walk again after the effects of MS attacks on making it so that they can't walk for a longer period of time?

What is Equine or Horse Therapy ?

Equine or Horse therapy is where a series of exercises are performed, while the person is sitting or riding on a horse.

Exercising on the horse strengthens the muscles and increases balance, which allows the person to be able to stay on the horse without falling off. Once the person is able to balance on a horse, so that they don’t fall off, the therapists can lead the horse around, while the person undergoing therapy is sitting on it.

This helps to get the person used to the movement of walking again and can actually help to retrain the brain to get used to the movement and natural gait of walking again, even if the person is not able to physically walk for a period of time.

How can doing Horse or Equine Therapy help to reduce the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis?

Click on the link to read more -- MS equine therapy

If you have found this information helpful or if you would like to add any other information related to the topic of this post, please us your comments. We would love to hear from you!

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