My Story:One Woman's Journey With MS

Multiple Sclerosis : Modifying the Disease Through Treatment

Multiple Sclerosis : One of the most important things to do when suffering from multiple sclerosis, especially if the patient has secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, is to try and prevent the worsening of the disease. Till some recent time ago this was not possible; it was almost impossible to do anything about it if [...]

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Multiple Sclerosis : What is Multiple Sclerosis and How Can We Fight Against it

Multiple Sclerosis : Mutiple sclerosis is a chronic illness of the central nervous system which has effects on the body’s defense system.
People that have passed the age of thirty usually develop multiple sclerosis, and there are much more women than men suffering from the disease. More than one million people are affected by multiple [...]

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Multiple Sclerosis : Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis : Multiple sclerosis is a rather unknown disease, because it does not affect many people. However, multiple sclerosis is a very hard medical condition. The reason is because when you suffer from multiple sclerosis, the patches of myelin or the fibres of your nerves are damaged. Multiple sclerosis affects the nerves of [...]

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Multiple Sclerosis : Defining and Describing Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis : Using medical terms we can say that multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disorder that affects the central nervous system, meaning the brain and the spinal cord.
Studies done on groups of individuals with the disorder has come up with the conclusion that women are much more affected than man. Still, in [...]

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Factors Suspected of Causing Multiple Sclerosis

Although the exact causes and risk factors of multiple sclerosis are still unknown to modern medical science, it is believed that the disease occurs on the premises of inherited genetic dysfunctions and is triggered by certain environmental factors (either exposure to chemicals or infections with viruses or bacteria). Despite the fact that medical scientists have [...]

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Diagnosing Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis is an inflammation of your central part of the nervous system. To proper diagnose multiple sclerosis, the doctor has to find lesions in this part of your nervous system. Furthermore, those lesions must be disseminated in space as well as in time in order for you to be diagnose with multiple sclerosis. This [...]

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Understanding Multiple Sclerosis Subtypes

Despite the ongoing efforts of medical scientists to reveal the factors responsible for causing multiple sclerosis, the exact reasons why the disorder occurs in otherwise healthy persons remain unknown. Although various factors are suspected to trigger the occurrence of multiple sclerosis (viral or bacterial infections) or to facilitate its progression (genetic dysfunctions and various external, [...]

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Multiple Sclerosis Types

Multiple sclerosis is not a very spread condition, but it can do a lot of damage. Multiple sclerosis affects the nerves of your central nerve system, causing many problems. Depending on the symptoms that you have, multiple sclerosis can be of three types. The type of multiple sclerosis that one can suffer from are: relapsing- [...]

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Symptoms for Multiple Sclerosis

As in other illnesses and diseases one can tell if someone has disorders by analyzing that person to see if certain symptoms are present. Finding and identifying the symptoms can be quite tricky sometimes. First of all not all the people come down with the same symptoms and on top of that is [...]

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