 Category :: Multiple Sclerosis Articles |
Author :: Gary Cordingley, MD, PhD  |
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| Article Title :: Early Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis: Difficult But Important |
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| The principal dilemma in current management of multiple sclerosis is that while early diagnosis enables damage-sparing treatment to begin, diagnosing MS too early increases the likelihood of treating people who don't actually have the disease. Current disease-modifying drugs are all given by injection and cost about $14,000 per year. Apart from being inconvenient and expensive, there is some risk of harm from them which, if the patient doesn't actually have MS, occurs without any offsetting benefit.
The dilemma would not be great if multiple sclerosis was easy to diagnose, but unfortunately MS is among the most difficult diagnoses in all of medicine to make, at least while still (read full article) |
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| Category :: Multiple Sclerosis Articles |
Author :: Russ Miles |
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| Article Title :: Life After Multiple Sclerosis ~ An MS Patient Goes Public! |
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| About the author, MS, and Why FSBO (in his own words):
I retired from real estate in SW Washington, but only when I could no longer walk. Over three years previous, the doctors had said I needed to "Get rid of stress and stop working." In denial, I was slow to accept Multiple Sclerosis. Who, after all, would embrace a diagnosis of the dread disease of no known cause, and for which there was no cure? I continued to operate my own real estate company, increasing the number of experienced agents who required less hands-on supervision.
Putting renters in my house, I moved closer to my office, using a handicapped scooter to get back and forth on those days when I didn' (read full article) |
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| Category :: Multiple Sclerosis Articles |
Author :: Russ Miles |
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| Article Title :: Perminant Progressive MS (Multiple Sclerosis) One Victim's Dated Report |
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| Labor Day ~ 2005
When, a couple of years ago, I wrote an article about my dread disease, I still had not fully comprehended how disabling Perminant Progressive MS can become. I had come to realize that my denial had delayed acceptance of the diagnosis, my fear had stampeded me to stupid decisions, and had found ~ by writing a novel ~ I could dispel depression. Yet, I could still walk, a little, and figured I would bounce back soon.
Reality catches up with most of us ~ sooner or later. Not that it is easy to accept. Although the ‘Docs’ said I had already passed from relapsing remitting MS ~ to Perminant Progressive MS ~ I thought I’d make a rather rapid c (read full article) |
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| Category :: Multiple Sclerosis Articles |
Author :: Ryan Fyfe |
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| Article Title :: I am Multiple Sclerosis |
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| Hi, my name is Multiple Sclerosis. You know me as a chronic disease that affects the brain and spinal cord. I don't really like that name or title so lets stick with MS for short.
I can cause a variety of symptoms, which include:
- Changes in sensation
- Visual problems
- Weakness
- Depression
- Difficulties with coordination
- Difficulties with speech
Several people that I affect will lead full and often times even use the "R word" (Rewarding) lives. That isn't the case for everyone though as often times I can cause people the use of the "D word", being disability and impaired mobility in cases where my work didn't go quite as we (read full article) |
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| Category :: Multiple Sclerosis Articles |
Author :: smgenie |
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| Article Title :: Multiple Sclerosis- what is it? |
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| Multiple Sclerosis- what is it?
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system (CNS) where the body's own immune cells attack the nervous system. In Multiple Sclerosis, inflammation of nervous tissue causes the loss of myelin, a fatty material that acts as a sort of protective insulation for the nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord. This demyelination leaves multiple areas of scar tissue (sclerosis) along the covering of the nerve cells, which disrupts the ability of the nerves to conduct electrical impulses to and from the brain, producing the various symptoms of multiple Sclerosis.
Multiple Sclerosis-Causes, symptoms, and risk (read full article) |
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