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Multiple Sclerosis has a multitude of symptoms, some more severe than other, some more disabling then others. The main MS symptoms are:
Fatigue – MS sufferers are affected by normal fatigue, and MS specific fatigue, called lassitude – a feeling of constant sleepiness, besides neuromuscular fatigue.
Spasticity - which is the result of the dysfunction of an upper motor neuron that controls impulse and neurochemistry.
Weakness – appears because of the demyelination, and deconditioning; however, the muscles are only neurologically weakened.
Urinary dysfunction – the symptoms can include incontinence, hesitancy, frequency, urgency, et cetera. Bowel dysfunction – most commonly constipation
Sexual dysfunction - impotence in men and decreased vaginal lubrication for women.
Pain – a very common symptom, which presents itself in various forms: irritative, burning, dysesthesia, et cetera. Visual Dysfunction – which can mean loss of color, blurry vision, phosphenes, and other
Paroxysmal spasms – meaning that the paroxysmal electrical short-circuiting of the spinal cord, which leads to sensory disturbances and spasms.
Pathological laughing or crying – this occurs when MS demyelination affects the peudobulbar palsy.
Depression – again, the demyelination affects and changes the brain’s neurochemistry, and this leads to depression ( not that having MS it’s in itself depressing).
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