Providing Information on ways for Taming Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis, using Alternative and Natural Ways!
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Finding Ways To Help Reduce MS Nervous System Effects
Multiple Sclerosis is known to attack the central nervous system and cause damage to either the spinal cord or the brain or both, as well as attack other nerves throughout the body.
Repairing nerves or reversing nerve damage is not very well understood either, but medical research within the last 10 years is finding out more and more that the nerves can be retrained by exercising the muscles that are attached to them.
It is like retraining the nerves and stimulating them at the same time, so that when the exercises are done consistently over a period of time, the nerves are gradually retrain and actually redeveloped, where they were once damage.
Exercise isn't the only thing that can help to regenerate and repair the MS nervous system damage, but exercise along with dietary changes, reducing stress, getting more rest and using other natural and alternative ways to work with the body can help the body to recover more of its abilities to function again, after the effects of the MS attacks have cause damage to different parts of the nervous system.
Natural and alternative ways don't fight against the body, like using prescription drugs do, and they don't result in the side effects that are typically associated with prescription drugs either.
Natural and alternative ways do take some time to work though and they are not a quick fix, but at least, most of the time, they do help more for coaxing the body into healing itself from the effects of Multiple Sclerosis, at least that has been our experience.
Depending on what the effects of Multiple Sclerosis on the nervous system that you are dealing with, not all natural and alternative ways work for every one with MS, since the alternative and natural ways are not cure-alls or anything like that.
But to the favor of natural and alternative ways, more doctors are turning to more complimentary ways of helping their MS patients to find relief to their symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis.
This means that more doctors are considering using natural and/or alternative ways either by themselves or in combination with using the prescription drugs, which are often prescribed for Multiple Sclerosis patients.
As a result, more MS patients are finding relief to more of their symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis, in addition to finding that more of the effects of MS are also beginning to be reversed.
Maybe natural and alternative ways are at least worth considering for reducing the effects of Multiple Sclerosis on your nervous system to help you to find relief from MS.
To read more click on the link -- MS nervous system
If you found this information to be helpful, or if you would like to leave us your comments, we would be happy to have you leave your comments.
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Saturday, May 29, 2010
Challenges of Using A CPAP Sleep Mask For Reducing Problems with MS Sleep Apnea
There is more than one type of sleep apnea. Depending on which type of sleep apnea that you have, there are quite a few different kinds of CPAP sleep masks that can be used for reducing the effects of the sleep apnea or for even getting the sleep apnea under control.
When it comes to the CPAP mask and machines, which help the person with sleep apnea to breathe better while they are sleeping, there are many different ways that the masks and machines are made.
But basically the majority of CPAP masks fall into 2 general types of masks.
One type of CPAP mask covers the nose, but not the mouth and the other type is considered a full face mask, where it covers both the nose and the mouth.
When we sleep, breathing through our noses helps us to get more oxygen to our brains and into our blood while we sleep.
Those of us, who tend to breathe more through our mouths, when we are sleeping, tend to have a much lower level of oxygen being supplied to our brains and to the rest of our bodies from the oxygen levels in our blood, which circulates through out our bodies.
The reduced levels of oxygen in our bodies and our brains can greatly reduce the abilities of our brains and our bodies to function as they should normally.
Often the CPAP mask that covers only the nose is tried first, during the overnight CPAP sleep study to see if it helps us to be able to get adequate levels of oxygen while we are sleeping.
At times, the CPAP mask that covers the nose only does not help enough, since if allergies are present or if you tend to breathe through your mouth while sleeping, the full face mask is needed to boost the oxygen levels back to the level that is needed to help your bran and your body to function as they should.
Mouth breathers often have an obstruction in the nose, throat or some other part of the airway or they can have a problem with congestion from allergies, which can prevent them from being able to breathe through their noses only.
If sleep apnea is suspected, an over night sleep study is done with you to determine if sleep apnea is present.
Multiple Sclerosis can set us up for sleep apnea to develop, since MS is known to attack the nervous system and cause many parts of our bodies and our brains not to function as they should.
Once it is determined that sleep apnea is the problem that you are having problems with, another overnight sleep study is done to determine which type of CPAP sleep mask will work for your particular type of sleep apnea.
Sleep apnea is basically where for one reason or another, the person stops breathing temporarily several to many times a night, while they are sleeping.
Most often the breathing problems occur while the person is lying down to sleep, but sleeping while sitting up in a chair can sometimes cause the restricting of the airway too that can cause breathing problems while sleeping.
Difficulties, which can present more problems with MS sleep apnea, while you are trying to get used to sleeping with a CPAP sleep mask can include:
Allergies can cause congestion
Congestion can make it difficult to breathe through your nose.
To use a sleep mask that covers only the nose, you need to be able to sleep with your mouth closed. This can present a problem when allergies are present.
Chin straps can be used to help to keep the mouth closed when using a sleep mask that only covers the nose, but the congestion can cause a problem that can prevent being able to drain the congestion enough for you to be able to breathe through your nose and not your mouth.
We unconsciously breathe through our mouths when we are congested.
Sleep masks do have filters on them, but some only come with 1 filter and some have 2 filters.
The sleep masks with 2 filters work better for those who have allergic reactions, since 1 filter removes dust and other particles from the air and the second one removes molds and other airborne pathogens, which can help reduce allergic reactions while sleeping.
It is best if you can clean up the room that you sleep in to remove as much dust, mold and clutter to minimize clogging the filters on the masks and to help reduce possible allergens in the room that you sleep in.
When it comes to MS sleep apnea, getting used to wearing a CPAP sleep mask when sleeping can be difficult.
Typically, problems encountered when getting used to sleeping with a sleep apnea CPAP mask can include:
* Difficulty getting used to sleeping with the mask on your face
We can unconsciously find it uncomfortable at first, when we first start wearing a CPAP mask to sleep at night to help us to breathe better when we sleep at night, especially if you have never had to wear a mask on your face before..
* Claustrophobia
This is the fear of not being able to breathe with the mask on your face or fear of the feeling of being closed in or too restricted.
This can be more of a problem if you need to wear a full face sleep mask, since there are also ones that just cover the nose and not the mouth.
* Sinus congestion or problems with Allergies
This can make it difficult for you to breathe through your nose when sleeping.
We get much more oxygen to our brains and into our bloodstream, when we breathe through our nose and not through our mouths, while we are sleeping.
But this problem can also make it so that we can't use the type of sleep apnea mask that covers the nose only. This can make it so that we need to use a full face CPAP or sleep mask.
* Difficulty breathing more deeply and more regularly
Sleep apnea already comes with the characteristic where we stop breathing temporarily a few to several times when we are sleeping at night.
This can just add to the sleep apnea problem or it can be a major contributing factor to the sleep apnea problem to start with.
This type of problem with holding your breath is more of a problem where learned responses of holding your breath when you feel under stress can make it where you are not getting enough oxygen to the brain and the rest of the body.
This can be a learned response from past traumatic events in your life, where you tend to hold your breathe more often when you feel stressed out.
Finding ways to relax and de-stress the nervous system can help reduce this problem, as well as learning to breathe more deeply and more regularly.
We can retrain ourselves, while we are awake to help us to learn to breathe more deeply and regularly and then carry this over to helping retrain ourselves to do the deeper breathing, where we slow down our breathing and make it more regular to help relax our nervous system, our bodies and our minds before we go to sleep after we put on the CPAP mask.
At times, we may have difficulties retraining ourselves to breathe more regularly and more deeply while we are wearing a sleep mask, simply because we are so used to our old habits of not breathing regularly like we should be doing.
These and other problems that learning to sleep with a CPAP or sleep apnea mask can be overcome, but it does take some retraining ourselves and with changing our habits from what we did previously and it can often take a few weeks up to 1 or 2 months to get used to sleeping with wearing a CPAP sleep mask.
When sleep apnea is present, especially for more prolonged periods of time (we are talking often we can have sleep apnea problems for years before we are diagnosed), it can take time to convince ourselves that we are actually allowed to be able to get a good night of sleep every night.
This can be part of the problem too with sleep apnea
We need to give ourselves permission for us to be able to work with our bodies to allow them to relax and find sleep to be an enjoyable experience again, instead of us feeling like we are being tortured almost every night.
Getting used to sleeping with a sleep mask or CPAP mask and machine can be a challenge, but I have found that in my case of multiple sclerosis sleep apnea, that sleeping with a CPAP mask does help me most nights with with being able to actually get a very good restful night of sleep each night.
It isn't as intimidating as it may seem at first to get used to sleeping with a sleep apnea CPAP mask.
Although sleeping with a CPAP sleep apnea sleep mask is not necessarily the only solution for your case of sleep apnea to get it under control, it can help a lot with allowing you to finally get a good night sleep.
Sleeping with a CPAP mask may not be the only solution, since sometimes undergoing surgery to correct any physical obstructions, that may be creating much of the problems that contribute to sleep apnea, can sometimes help to correct the sleep apnea, so sleeping with a CPAP mask may not be needed after the surgery.
Going for surgery doesn't always fix the physical obstructions with sleep apnea either, but this may be a consideration, if using a CPAP mask doesn't seem to be helping you to sleep better at night.
If you want to at least consider if surgery can help to correct the problem you are having with sleep apnea, you can get additional opinions by visiting an ear, nose and throat doctor to see if there is a deviated septum, a problem with the tonsils or a problem with the adenoids, which could be contributing to the problem that you are having with sleep apnea.
Click on the link to read more about -- ms sleep apnea
If you find this information to be helpful or if you have any other comments or suggestions, we would be happy for you to leave us a comment.
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
What Problems Can The Multiple Sclerosis Symptom of Dropping Things Cause You?
This made it so that I had to cut out doing every day activities like doing dishes, putting dishes away in the cabinet, stopping using any dishes or glasses that were breakable, since I broke everything I used by dropping it on the ground and shattering it.
It was like I was losing control of my hands.
It took a while of changing lots of things, before I started to recover my abilities to use my hands again to do even daily activities that we can sometimes take for granted that we can do.
The scariest thing about all of the problems that I had with dropping things is that I love kids. I used to help my friends out with babysitting for them and I loved playing with their children.
At the time, I had no children of my own and I remember that at one point I was somewhere around lots of people and someone handed me their 2 month old baby to hold. I hadn't really thought about it at first, since it was about 3 years after I was first diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and my friend was talking with someone else and they had walked a few feet away from me and left me holding the baby.
I suddenly was in a panic, when I realized that I couldn't hang onto to the baby for more than a few minutes. All I could think about was that I was going to drop the baby.
I tried desperately to get my friend's attention and when she finally sent her husband over to take the baby away from me, I felt such relief that I hadn't dropped and hurt the baby.
After that, I was not willing to pick up a baby or any child and hold them. That was difficult, since I love children.
What kind of things does this Multiple Sclerosis symptom of dropping things get in the way of you doing, that makes it difficult for you to function from day to day?
I'd really like to hear more from you , as to what you are dealing with because of the effects of Multiple Sclerosis, since you have been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.
Sometimes just discussing the way that Multiple Sclerosis has affected our lives does help us to feel like we are not alone in our struggles with MS.
I'd love to hear from you. Leave us your comments and we can talk about it.
Take comfort in knowing, you are not alone in your struggle with Multiple Sclerosis.
We can learn to help each other to reduce the effects of Multiple Sclerosis on our health.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Multiple Sclerosis Sleep Apnea and Passing Out
On top of this, I have had a severe problem with passing out often and the combination of the 2 has made it very difficult for me to think straight enough for me to write very much or be able to carry on conversation via e-mail, like I typically can do.
My doctors have recently figured out that my adrenal glands are not functioning very well, which is causing my blood pressure to drop to the point where I can pass out for 1 to 3 hours at a time.
I recently received and started using the sleep mask or CPAP machine as it is called (or continuous positive air pressure machine) to help me reduce the problems that I exerience because of sleep apnea and to help me to get more restful sleep at night.
I was also started on a few different medications to help boost the function of my adrenals to help prevent the dizziness and passing out that I have been experiencing all too much over the last 2 to 3 years.
Both the medications and using the sleep apnea CPAP machine have been helping me to start to function better again.
I am working back into the swing of things with providing you with more information on what I have learned about living with Multiple Sclerosis and about what I have found that has helped to reduce the effects of Multiple Sclerosis and other conditions that accompany MS to help you to find relief too!
Helping you, who alsp struggle with Multiple Sclerosis and the other health conditions that can accompany Multiple Sclerosis is my main objective with everything that I do with my website and blog.
But I can't do this alone. I need your feedback to help me to know what information you are searching for to help you to find relief to what you are deling with, when it comes to Multiple Sclerosis.
I don't to just talk about what I have been through, since this may or may not help you to find relief.
Please leave me your comments, or questions as to what you would would like to find out more about when it comes to what you are dealing with because of Multiple Sclerosis.
I just want you to know that I understand how difficult living with Multiple Sclerosis can be and sometimes additional health challenges can also appear, which are not initially related to the Multiple Sclerosis, but that is somehow related to the effects of Multiple Sclerosis on the body, that can sometimes make it difficult for you to function.
Where I can, I describe things from a first hand point of view, since I have been there with much of what I describe that those of us with Multiple Sclerosis can ourselves be struggling with in each of our own cases of Multiple Sclerosis.
Although I myself don't take any of the typically prescribed medications for Multiple Sclerosis, if you find that they do help you, in reducing the struggle that you find yourself in with the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis, then use them.
But remember that no matter what treatment method or other ways that you use, while working with your doctors, to reduce the effects of Multiple Sclerosis on your body -- remember it's your body.
You know how you react to things and what kind of thing appear to help you, and which do not seem to help you much at all...or may even cause you to become worse instead of doing better.
No matter what ways you use for you, it is always your choice. Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise.
If you would like to learn more about how sleep apnea can affect those of us with MS, click on the link to learn more -- Multiple Sclerosis sleep apnea
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Sunday, April 18, 2010
MS Fatigue and Multiple Sclerosis Sleep Problems
Getting adequate rest is very important for those of us with Multiple Sclerosis. When we get adequate rest on a regular basis, this increases our body's own production of stem cells, which help repair damage to the nerves through out the body.
When it come to what can contribute to Multiple Sclerosis sleep problems, there can be several things that can either make the fatigue much worse or can actually be one of the root causes of problems with getting a good night of restful sleep more often when you are struggling with MS.
Sleep disorders are one of the problems that can develop as a result of Multiple Sclerosis attacking and damaging the central nervous system. Going for an overnight sleep study can often get to the bottom of any sleep disorder that has developed, that might be interfering with our bodies going through the normal sleep cycles that our bodies go through when we lie down and sleep.
To read more click on the link -- Multiple Sclerosis Sleep
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Can Multiple Sclerosis Sleep Apnea Contribute To MS Sleep Problems and MS Fatigue?
When it comes to sleep apnea, 10 out of every 100 people have sleep apnea, but a whopping 40% to 50% go undiagnosed for most, if not all of their lives!
This is what is reported for people, who are not diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, but when it comes to those of us who have been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, the incident rate of the appearance of sleep apnea increases even more for us.
Click on the link to read more -- Multiple Sclerosis sleep apnea
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
MS Stress: : How Does Stress Affect Your Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis?
Stress can also influence how severe the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis can become, as well as how long many of the more severe MS symptoms tend to last.
How have you found that stress affects your symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis?
Have you found anything that you would recommend to others with problems with the affects of MS stress that could help them to find relief too to the effects of stress on their symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis?
Leave a comment and let us know about your experiences dealing with MS stress.
We'd love to hear what you think! Leave us a comment to tell us your story.
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
MS Tips: Reducing Dry or Cracked Skin Problems With Multiple Sclerosis
When it comes to Multiple Sclerosis, problems with the skin becoming dry and cracking is all too often a problem, that can set us up for getting even more infections than we would other wise.
Click on the link to read more -- MS tips (for reducing dry or cracked skin)
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
MS Tip: Reducing Scrambling Things From MS Brain Function Problems
I was travelling in a car today on a sunny day, as a passenger (someone else was driving) and I tried something as a curiosity to see if it could help to reduce the scrambling that I was having a problem today from the effects of Multiple Sclerosis scrambling my brain and what I tried worked!
Since it helped, I wanted to pass this MS tip on to you, since it doesn't require buying anything or taking supplements or prescription drugs for you to find relief.
It was a very sunny day and as we were travelling down the road, towards the sun, I found that if I put up the visor in the car and let the sun shine on my face as much as possible and enter my eyes (don't look directly at the sun, look from side to side and don't wear sunglasses) that this helped to greatly reduce the scrambling that was going on because of the MS brain function problems that I was experiencing today.
Most people, diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, have a problem being low in vitamin D levels and vitamin D has been found to have a protective quality in Multiple Sclerosis to help reduce the number of MS attacks and relapses by preventing them.
Most people with MS tend not to get enough sunlight exposure because of the problem people with Multiple Sclerosis have with over reacting to heat and because of the reduced ability to stand and walk because of the effects of Multiple Sclerosis attacks, which reduces our outdoor activities more most of the time.
Since I found something that helped me to find relief to the MS brain function problems with scrambling things or with dyslexia, I wanted to pass this MS tip on to help you too.
Have a great day!
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MS Brain: Have You Found Yourself Scrambled Because of Multiple Sclerosis?
When this happens, this can make it difficult to write, form sentences when you talk or cause everything to be so jumbled up that it can be difficult to carry on a conversation with anyone or understand what other people are saying to you. This is often called dyslexia.
As with most cases of Multiple Sclerosis, we tend to have "good" days and "bad" days. With my case of Multiple Sclerosis, the days that I tend to scramble things or that the dyslexia goes crazy tends to come and go.
Although today is a scrambled day for me, sometimes in spite of the scrambling of my MS brain, I am still able to write some (go figure, since this makes no sense at all).
Okay...it makes a little sense, since the degree of scrambling from the Multiple Sclerosis can be much worse some days so much more than on other days. Some days when the scrambling becomes much worse, I can't do much of anything on those days, except wait until the problem with scrambling everything calms down.
Do you find that with your symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis that you tend to have problems with scrambling words, numbers, concepts or whatever?
What do you do when this happens to you?
I'd really like to know -- please leave me your comments to help me out here, since this is not an easy thing to deal with because of the effects of Multiple Sclerosis.
I look forward to your comments!
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Monday, February 15, 2010
MS Disability: Dealing with Electrical Power Outages with Multiple Sclerosis
What do you do then, to help you to function?
Click on the link to read more -- MS disability without electrical power.
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Monday, February 8, 2010
MS Breakthrough: More Medical Information on CCSVI for Your Doctors
I also was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and my doctors have been working with me to evaluate me, using ultrasound testing, to determine if I have the reduced blood flow from the brain or in the veins in the upper chest, but my doctors are having a tough time deciding which veins that they need to run the tests for, like Dr. Paolo Zamboni did with the MS patients that he did the study with in Ferrara, Italy.
Just in case you are having this problem too, click on the following link to read more about information that I found that can help you and your doctor in evaluating you for CCSVI -- MS breakthrough more information to help your doctors.
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
Stress MS: How Does Stress Affect the Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis?
The effects of stress can contribute to setting us up for MS attacks, exacerbations and relapses, which can appear much more often and much more severely, than they would if the stress was not present.
Although we can not totally get rid of the stress in our lives, especially when we are dealing with Multiple Sclerosis on a long term basis, we can reduce, minimize or maybe even neutralize the way that we respond to the stress and greatly reduce the way that the effects of stress can have on the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis.
Click on the link to read more -- Stress MS
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
MS Tips: Helpful MS Tip for Helping Reduce Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis
Which of the MS tips have helped you the most to find relief to your symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis, that you would like to pass on to other people, who have been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, to help them to find relief too?
Feel free to post your comments, as we are all working together to do what we can to help others who have also been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Multiple Sclerosis News: What Can We Do with the MS News About Blood Flow Problems with MS?
Does the blood flow problems to the brain or Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCVI) apply to all of us, who have been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis?
Can we be tested for this particular problem, to see if this a problem for us, that may be contributing to some degree to our symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis?
Click on the link to read more -- Multiple Sclerosis News
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
MS Work: How Can Having Multiple Sclerosis Affect Our Ability to Work?
Multiple Sclerosis can vary from person to person as to how it affects how well we can function from day to day.
Click on the link to read more -- MS work
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
MS Food: Is Eating or Drinking Foods containing Caffeine a Good Idea with Multiple Sclerosis?
Is it a good thing for those of us with Multiple Sclerosis to eat or drink foods that contain caffeine?
Click on the link to read more -- MS food
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Friday, January 15, 2010
MS Food: Example of Foods That I Eat To Help Reduce My Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms
I have found that if I include more foods of the following on a more regular basis, that I function better more often and my MS symptoms and MS attacks become less often of a problem.
Click on the link to read more -- MS food
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
How Can the Recent MS News Apply to Those of Us with Multiple Sclerosis?
How does any of this recent MS news apply to us, who also have been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis?
Click on the link to read more -- MS news
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Monday, December 28, 2009
MS Talk About It !!
I don't about you, but I find that there are days where I just feel better if I find other people, who have also been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, that I can just talk to about what I am dealing with on a daily basis because of the effects of Multiple Sclerosis on my body.
Don't you feel like that sometimes?
Well...it's your turn!
What is the worst thing that you have found yourself dealing with, since you have been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis?
Now's your chance -- Leave us your comments and tell us about it!
Sometimes, just talking about it all can help relieve stress and help you to feel like you are not alone in what you are dealing with because of the effects of Multiple Sclerosis.
So, let me tell you right now...you are not alone!
Somehow, we are all in this together.
Let us know what you are dealing with because of Multiple Sclerosis and we will do what we can to help you to find more information on alternative and natural ways that can help you to find relief too.
Hang in there my friends...until next time...
We wish you the best on your quest to wellness!
The Taming Multiple Sclerosis Team
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Saturday, December 26, 2009
MS Fatigue: Can a Virus Contribute to Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis?
Can anything help to reduce the fatigue, associated with this virus, in addition to helping with reducing the fatigue that is often associated with Multiple Sclerosis?
Click on the link to read more -- MS fatigue
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
Reducing MS Fatigue can be a Challenge
Click on the link to read more -- MS fatigue
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Sunday, December 6, 2009
MS Infection: How Does Having An Infection Affect Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis?
Can having an infection aggravate MS symptoms and make them worse?
Click on the link to read more -- MS infection
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
MS Breakthrough: A Recent Discovery in Multiple Sclerosis
Click on the link to read more -- MS breakthrough
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Saturday, November 28, 2009
Multiple Sclerosis Treatment: A Newer Type of Treatment Being Considered for MS?
This may also mean that the way that Multiple Sclerosis is approached and the whole notion that of Multiple Sclerosis being a autoimmune disorder (where the body becomes confused in some way where it attacks itself) may change in the future.
Time will tell, but this also has the potential of changing the way that the medical community around the world approaches and treats Multiple Sclerosis in the future.
Click on the link to read more -- Multiple Sclerosis treatment.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
MS News: What's All the Buzz About for Multiple Sclerosis?
This amazing discovery has the potential of helping thousands of people around the world, who have been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. This breakthrough could possibly even change the way that the medical community around the world views Multiple Sclerosis on both how it is classified and how it is treated.
On November 21st, an amazing breakthrough for the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) was aired on the news across Canada, that described about a new discovery by Dr. Paolo Zamboni, an Italian vascular surgeon. According to Dr. Zamboni, he found that there is a structural defect that exists in the blood vessels of the MS patients that he treated, which could be causing symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis. This interesting discovery has peaked the curiosity of the medical community around the world.
Click on the link to read more -- MS news
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
MS Tip for reducing MS symptoms Resulting After Using Injectable Drugs for Multiple Sclerosis
A MS tip was recently passed on to me from someone with Multiple Sclerosis that may help those of you that are using one of the injectable drugs, which are often prescribed for helping to reduce MS symptoms.
We have asked her permission, for us to be able to pass this information on to those of you, who are also currently using one of the injectable drugs to help to manage your Multiple Sclerosis symptoms, in the hopes that it may help those of you, who may also be battling with similar experiences yourself.
Click on the link to read more -- MS tip
If you have any further ms tips that you wish to pass along to others who may also be facing problems with similar MS symptoms, as to what you are experiencing, you can leave a comment on this blog and we will pass the information along to others, also diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.
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Friday, October 2, 2009
MS Caregiver: Being a Caregiver with Multiple Sclerosis
An interesting phenomena is occurring around the world, as a larger percentage of people in many more different countries around the world are living longer lives and as the number of people entering later stages of life is increasing as more of the "baby boomer" generation approaches retirement age.
This often means that as more of the aging population develop health conditions that require more assistance for performing every day tasks, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson, different forms of dementia or cancer, or even Multiple Sclerosis, more and more of the younger generations are finding themselves in more of a care giver role.
Click on the link to read more -- MS Caregiver
If you find any of this information helpful to you, or if you disagree with any of the information included here, leave you comments and let us know what you think!
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
Vitamin D MS: Can Increasing Vitamin D Levels Reduce MS Depression?
Sunday, September 6, 2009
MS Flu: Can Anything Help to Curb the Flu with Multiple Sclerosis?
Another name for the actual main virus, that is often called "the flu" is the Influenza virus. The main problem with "the flu" is that it isn't just one organism, but instead it is actually a group of different forms of the same virus, that are related in one way or the other.
Click on the link to read more -- MS flu
If you find any of this information helpful to you, or if you disagree with any of the information included here, leave your comments and let us know what you think!
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
How Can Multiple Sclerosis Insomnia Affect the Memory, While we are Awake?
As more sleep studies are being done to observe the effects of insomnia on the body, the more is being understood about how insomnia affects the ways that our memories can function during the day, while we are actually awake. This effect of insomnia on decreasing the abilities of our memories to work as they should is seen as a much bigger problem for those of us, who have been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.
How does sleep help the memory to work better?
Click on the link to read more -- Multiple Sclerosis insomnia
If you find any of this information helpful to you, or if you disagree with any of the information included here, leave your comments and let us know what you think!
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Monday, August 31, 2009
Multiple Sclerosis Diet: What Diet Changes Can Help?
But...what are the Multiple Sclerosis diet changes that we can make that can help to reduce Multiple Sclerosis symptoms or possibly even help to reverse the effects of Multiple Sclerosis on the body?
Click on the link to read more -- Multiple Sclerosis diet
If you find any of this information helpful to you, or if you disagree with any of the information included here, leave your comments and let us know what you think!
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Multiple Sclerosis Exercise: What Exercises Can Help if You can still Walk or Stand after MS?
This is a very good question.
When it comes to the degree of disability that can be caused by the effects of Multiple Sclerosis attacking our bodies, the amount that you are able to function can vary from having difficulty walking, to needing to use a cane or a walker, or if severe enough we can get to the point where we can no longer stand or walk and we need to use a wheelchair to get around.
But can anything help us to improve how well our bodies can function?
To read more click on the link -- multiple sclerosis exercise
If you find that this information is helpful to you, or if you disagree with the information included here, leave us your comments and let us know what you think!
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Exercise MS: Running Up and Down the Driveway?
We hear about how those of us with Multiple Sclerosis can get some really good benefits from exercising, but when we it really comes down to it, those of with Multiple Sclerosis often think that exercising is something that is way too difficult for us to do, especially if our MS symptoms are more severe to the point that we have more ms fatigue or if we are more disabled because of effects of Multiple Sclerosis on our bodies.
But what we don't realize sometimes is that even many of what every one else thinks is a "normal every day task" can be exercise for those of us with Multiple Sclerosis.
To read more click on the link -- exercise MS
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Monday, August 10, 2009
Anxiety MS: Can Anything Help to Reduce Multiple Sclerosis Anxiety?
Can anything be done to help reduce Multiple Sclerosis anxiety?
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Saturday, August 8, 2009
Multiple Sclerosis: Talk About It
So, tell me about what you are struggling with when it comes to your symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis or whatever else you would like to talk about.
I understand what it is like to have to continually battle with Multiple Sclerosis.
It is no fun most of the time living with Multiple Sclerosis and some days it is downright frustrating, scary or even so exhausting that we can sometimes feel like we just can't function. I know what that is like, since today is just one of those days where I just can't seem to think straight enough for me to be able to get anything done today. that I had planned on doing today.
Do you feel like this too? Tell me about what you are having a tough time with Multiple Sclerosis.
We'd love to hear from you! We look forward to hearing from you!
Take care my friends!
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Monday, August 3, 2009
Multiple Sclerosis Weight Loss: Does It Matter at All?
Certain types of toxins have been found to increase how much Multiple Sclerosis can attack and cause damage to our nerves throughout our bodies. These toxins are often called neurotoxins, because of the effects on the nerves. Unfortunately, it has also been found that the more body fat that we have, this can actually help our bodies to store the neurotoxins within the excess fat cells in our body.
Click on the link to read more -- Multiple Sclerosis weight loss.
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Saturday, August 1, 2009
Multiple Sclerosis Season Changes: How do season changes affect MS?
Season Changes can contribute to making Multiple Sclerosis symptoms much worse, as well as, trigger or aggravate MS exacerbations and ms relapses. During season changes, those of us with Multiple Sclerosis can have much more problems with ms fatigue, more problems with getting more intense infections more often, have problems with getting rid of each infection, or have problems with more exacerbations and relapses of our Multiple Sclerosis symptoms.
Click on the link to read more -- multiple sclerosis season changes.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Cooling MS: Can anything Help Reduce Heat with Multiple Sclerosis?
Because of the problems that people that are diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis have with Heat, it can make it very difficult to survive the summer months. It isn't just a problem with overheating, in my case of Multiple Sclerosis, I have a problem where I don't sweat like I should and the cooling that is achieved as the sweat evaporates, that normally helps my body to cool off is working and can not be of much help to cool my body down, as it should be.
Multiple Sclerosis heat can be such a problem that it can become more threatening to our over all health if it is not addressed and a way is found that can help cooling ms related heat problems.
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Multiple Sclerosis Regaining Your Identity after Being Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis
If Multiple Sclerosis has taken a larger toll on your body and removed more of your ability to function, finding something that makes you feel like your life still has purpose can be difficult at times. When so much of what you did before an enjoyed about life has been taken away from you, because of the Multiple Sclerosis attacks on your body, it can leave you feeling like part of you is missing.
Click on the link to read more -- Multiple Sclerosis Regaining Your Identity.
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Monday, July 20, 2009
MS Hope: Can having Hope Help Reduce the Effects of Multiple Sclerosis?
MS hope is where we keep positive about the outcome of our situation, our health or whatever we are going through when it comes to the effects of Multiple Sclerosis. If we can find ways to keep up our spirits or remain positive, at least more of the time than not, this makes a huge difference for those of us that have been given the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis.
Click on the link to read more -- ms hope.
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Saturday, July 18, 2009
What can Help with Taming MS Tremors?
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Reversing Multiple Sclerosis: Can anything Help?
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Multiple Sclerosis Symptom Weakness on One Side of Body
Doctors can use additional testing, such as mri tests (or magnetic resonance imaging testing), retinal scans, spinal tap, etc. to determine if Multiple Sclerosis is present, instead of the weakness on one side actually being the result of a stroke.
To read more, click on the link - MS symptom Weakness on One Side of Body.
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Monday, June 22, 2009
What are the 3 Worst MS Symptoms that You are Struggling With?
possible multiple sclerosis symptoms
It's your turn! I want to hear from you!
Tell me about the 3 worst multiple sclerosis symptoms 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 multiple sclerosis symptoms that can be caused by Multiple Sclerosis?
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 MS for any period of time -- whether is has been a short or longer period of time, since you were given the Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis.
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 Multiple Sclerosis 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 Multipl Sclerosis and I have learned much more about MS 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 Multiple Sclerosis symptoms 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, exacerbation or attack causes a flare up in Multiple Sclerosis 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 Sclerosis, because I have been there too and if you just want to discuss any of what you are going through because of Multiple Scerosis symptoms, you can post your questions, concerns or even describe what 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 Multiple Sclerosis symptoms !
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Monday, June 15, 2009
Coping with Life Again After Being Diagnosed with MS
Coping with Multiple Sclerosis
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 MS, that appeared within the 2 years before I was actually diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, were actually signalling that I had a much more severe health condition than I could have ever imagined.
I didn't realize until about 2 weeks before I was admitted to the hospital and then given the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis, that something was severely wrong with my health. My case of Multiple Sclerosis was fast moving, after the initial subtle systems first appeared and my health quickly went down hill. After I was given the Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis, and my life was turned upside down, I was constantly being asked how I could handle the drastic changes that Multiple Sclerosis had brought into my life? "How can you cope with Multiple Sclerosis?" was said to me so often, within the first few weeks after I was diagnosed, but I don't really registered at the time as to how sick I really was at the time. But even after I was first diagnosed with MS, my case of Multiple Sclerosis kept getting worse over the next 2 months (as if it could get any worse for how terrible I looked when I first went in the hospital).
In spite of all that I went through in such a short period of time, because of the effects of Multiple Sclerosis on my overall health, I made a choice to choose not to give up, at least that sounded like a good plan at first. Thinking back on it all now, I had decided, at the time, that I had 2 choices to choose between. 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 (at least initially). I had remembered that in the past, before I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis whenever I had any kind of adversity or bad thing, enter my life, I would find some way to look on the bright side of the situation or look at the silver lining, in spite of any of the terrible things that were actually going on in my life at the time. I have heard the saying, "when life gives you a bunch of lemons, you just make lemonade" -- but this wasn't like having the flu or some other short term illness. This was a much longer term illness than I ever could have imaginged having to learn to "cope with".
After I was first diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, I wasn't really even sure what MS was at the time. But after I found out more about it, I made up my mind that I wouldn't let the news about me being given the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis get me severely depressed, since I was bound to just get sicker if I let myself get too depressed all of the time. One thing that helped me at first is that quite a few of my friends came to visit me, when I was in the hospital, when I was first diagnosed. I was so sick at first that I was kept in the hosipital for 6 weeks. After the first 2 weeks, my friends stopped visiting me and being by myself in the hospital made how severe my health condition had become start to sink in more.
So, I decided that I would meet people, while I was in the hospital. I have always found that if I can find a way to cheer up other people, that it helped me to feel better too. The first week that I was in the hospital, I was in intensive care, until they "figured out" what was wrong with me. After I was diagnosed and my condition was down graded, I was moved to the rehabilitation floor.
I still didn't understand much about how Multiple Sclerosis can make you feel extremely fatigued by everything that you do. I didn't know that Multiple Sclerosis can make it so that many MS symptoms can appear that are very strange to say the least. I didn't know anything about ms numbness, ms nerve pain, ms vision problems, or anything else that was part of the "package deal" when it came to having Multiple Sclerosis.
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 .
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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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Taming Multiple Sclerosis or Taming MS: What can Help?
Taming Multiple Sclerosis or Taming MS
Previously, the overall medical community thought that Multiple Sclerosis was untameable, since both the MS disease process an the causes of Multiple Sclerosis were not understood much at all. All that could be done at that point in time was to chase symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis, in an attempt to bring some relief to those who suffered with Multiple Sclerosis.
But as ms research, but as more is being understood about both the MS disease process and about how to slow the progression of Multiple Sclerosis, more effectively, more things are coming to light about what may help more with taming Multiple Sclerosis and not just finding ways to reduce MS symptoms without addressing the underlying problems with Multiple Sclerosis that actually generate the symptoms of MS.
More is also being understood about how ms physical therapy and other types of ms therapies can help with taming ms by reducing the effects of MS on the body by retraining and reprogramming the body to function better again.
Physical therapy and other forms of ms therapies have been used more with MS patients over the last 10 years, and the positive results have been noticeable in the majority of cases of Multiple Sclerosis. These results give us a much more positive outlook on how well physical therapy and other ms therapies can help those of us diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis to recover more of our abilities to function.
The idea behind why this help those of us with MS to function better again is because doctors and ms researchers alike have been finding that the nerves throughout the brain and the rest of the body can be exercised more like a muscle can be exercised, more like a muscle than it was previously thought that this was even possible.
To read more click on the link - Taming Multiple Sclerosis.
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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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