Let us just begin saying that most people are frightened by a positive MS diagnosis, but at the same time they find relief in knowing that the condition that has been haunting them for years has finally got a name. At the same time, when they start learning about MS they fear the long term effects that this condition has on their bodies. Spasticity, weakness, urinary dysfunction, bowel dysfunction, sexual dysfunction, pain, visual dysfunction, paroxysmal spasms, pathological laughing or...

Multiple sclerosis raises lots of questions due to its nature. First of all, patients are told that this is a neurological condition, then that it’s an autoimmune disease and an demyelinating condition. That is confusing for most of them. When at all of the above the news that there is no permanent cure is added, this makes patients wonder about the history of this condition. Is it that recent, or simply that difficult to diagnose and treat?

Believe it or not, the first...

Multiple Sclerosis is a disease that’s hard to diagnose due to the multitude of symptoms it has. Even when it’s diagnosed,  doctors can have problems diagnosing the right MS subtype. These are patterns of progression of the disease, that are indicators to how the future course of this condition will be.  Currently, there are 4 types of MS:

1. relapsing remitting,
2. secondary progressive,
3. primary progressive, and
4. progressive relapsing.

The first...

Multiple sclerosis is a condition that’s called an autoimmune disease, a chronic condition and a neurological disease. This can be quite confusing for most people, and finding the doctor to treat their MS can be extremely difficult.  Plus, due to the variety of symptoms, the disease is hard to diagnose, and a person can see half a dozen doctors until they find the one who identifies the disease as being MS and sends them to a specialist.

So, to answer the question, the...