Coping with Multiple Sclerosis
After we are first given the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis, it can sometimes be difficult to cope with how devastating the effects of Multiple Sclerosis can be on our overall health.
Depending on how mild or severe your particular set of MS symptoms
have become, you may have to give up doing many of the things that did
previously because your body no longer functions enough for you to be
able to do the things that you really enjoyed before Multiple Sclerosis
entered your life.
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 Multiple Sclerosis,
within the 2 years before I was actually diagnosed with MS, were a much
more severe health condition than I could have ever imagined.
For how severe my Multiple Sclerosis symptoms
were at initially, after I was first diagnosed, and because of the ways
that I chose to cope with my turned upside down, I was constantly
being asked how I could handle the drastic changes that Multiple had
brought into my life.
Thinking
back on it all now, I had decided that I had 2 choices at the time.
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. I
had remembered that in the past, before I was diagnosed with MS, that I
decided right after I was
given the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis that in the past 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.
I'll give you an example of what I am talking about. When I was first diagnosed with MS, t
* increasing skin exposure to sunlight
- when the sunlight shines on the skin, our skin reacts to the sunlight
by producing vitamin D in our skin We have several parts of our
bodies that rely on having high enough levels of vitamin D in our
bodies. Vitamin d deficiencies has strong protective properties
in helping to prevent the occurrence of Multiple Sclerosis. Once
MS is present, the higher levels of vitamin D are needed even more by
the body, since vitamin D helps to boost the immune system and helps to
reduce or maybe even prevent ms insomnia.
* Eliminate Negative
Thinking and Negative Talk
- we often can have a tendency as people to talk about ourselves and
other people in a way that is more gossipy and negative way. This
is counter productive to helping our bodies to heal from the damage
that is often caused by Multiple Sclerosis, since whether we know it or
not - our bodies listen to every word that we say, think or hear.
Since our bodies require huge amounts of energy to heal, we need
to do all that we can to focus positive healing energy towards our
bodies instead of draining away from our bodies the limited resources
of energy each day that we use that is desperately needed by our bodies
for hem to heal themselves.
* Allow ourselves to Learn to Live Life Again - joining MS support groups, finding MS blogs, MS
forums, MS message boards, or MS chat rooms to get answers to your questions about MS
and learning how to reconnect with other people again (after being
diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis) can be challenging. We all
need other people, whether we think we do or not. It may take
some time to learn how to live life again after MS has changed your
life, but don't allow MS to take away your reasons for living and
enjoying life again. Find a way to get involved in living life
again. Volunteer somewhere or join some type of social group,
just to develop new friendships and redevelop the areas of your life
where you allowing ourselves to learn how to live life again.
Extreme MS
Vitamin Deficiencies -
the medical community is finding that many cases of Multiple Sclerosis can result in vitamin deficiencies.
More extreme vitamin deficiencies in magnesium and calcium have been
found to increase the severity and the frequency of the appearance of muscle
tightness,
ms
muscle spasms and
muscle cramping in the average person, but for those of us with Multiple
Sclerosis, magnesium and calcium deficiencies can cause often much
more severe problems with ms spasms,
ms tremors, or ms
spasticity.
Elevated Levels of Heavy Metals and other Toxins - our bodies can
be having problems with having problems with not detoxifying from heavy metals
and other toxins as they should on a daily basis.
Many of the symptoms of Multiple
Sclerosis can be reduced, simply by helping the body to get rid if
toxins more easily. MS spasms, ms twitching and multiple sclerosis tremors can be reduced to a large extent by helping our bodies to detoxify better.
* Taking
Chlorella (a green sea algae) helps to reduce heavy metal levels in the
body, including mercury, aluminum, lead and other metals.
*
Taking a powder made from barely grass (a green grass plant) can help to
reduce spasms, since it is higher in magnesium. Magnesium
deficiency has been found to cause leg, hand and other spasms. MS
can set the body up for having many vitamin deficiencies because so
much of the Central Nervous System and other bodily processes are so
out of balance.
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Taking the
herb milk thistle can also help ease the burden on the liver to help to
detoxify the blood better and help the liver to detoxify the body
better. Taking the herb milk thistle also helps to reduce the
amount of stress that is placed on the liver when you are trying to
increase how well your body detoxifies from toxins.
*
Taking Extra Magnesium with Calcium (take the calcium and
magnesium in a 1 to 1 ratio or until bowel tolerance is reached --
you take enough magnesium until your poop is starting to become softer
and more watery then you reduce the amount you are taking of the
magnesium a little to keep you from actually getting diarrhea)
Other Vitamin Deficiencies - because magnesium and calcium need
more of certain other vitamins to be present at high enough levels to aid in
absorption, deficiencies in one or more of these vitamins can also contribute
to the presence of more frequent ms
spasms. The list of helper vitamins can include
vitamin D,
vitamin C, B complex, B1 (thiamine), B5 (Pantothenic acid), B6 (Pyridine), magnesium, calcium and zinc.
Taking vitamin supplements can he helpful in reducing the spasms,
including taking calcium, magnesium and vitamin D, but I have found that for my
own case of Multiple Sclerosis, taking vitamin supplement powders that are made
from whole foods helps better than taking vitamin supplements all of the time,
whenever the spasms and twitching become too overwhelming.
Another way of helping our bodies to function better overall is to
grind green leafy vegetables, including kale or spinach, along with grinding
other vegetables such as carrots and beets to help our bodies to detoxify from
heavy metals (mercury, cadmium, aluminum, etc.).
Grinding whole foods, especially vegetables and drinking it can
help give our bodies a boost by helping to provide a broader range of vitamins
and nutrients that can help speed up the body with repairing the nerve
damage, that all too often can result from Multiple Sclerosis attacking the nerves through out our bodies.
If grinding whole foods and drinking them on a more consistent
basis over a longer period of time, this can help our bodies so much more than
taking large handfuls of vitamins. In the long run it is also cheaper to
buy more vegetables and fruit than to pay for vitamins and other supplements
that are more and more synthetically made rather than being more whole food
nutrients that are just concentrated from food sources.
Taking the green sea algae, called Chlorella, can also help our
body to do a much better job in ridding our bodies of toxins, by aiding our
bodies natural detoxifying mechanisms in functioning better than than they did
before we started to take the Chlorella.
All of these changes can help with reducing how severe and how
frequently we see the multiple sclerosis spasms occurring
on a regular basis, but they don't all need to be used or done at
the same time, since some of the effects of different vitamins and
herbs can sometimes overlap in their effects on the body.
Check
with your doctor before using any herbs or vitamins to attempt to
reduce your particular symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis. Your
doctor can determine much better which vitamin deficiencies. I
would also suggest finding and working with a doctor that has
experience using herbs to help to reduce the symptoms of MS.
Herbs can be harmful to your body if taken in a combination that
your body is unable to handle, so find an herbalist or a doctor that is trained on using herbs with their MS patients to
consult with before taking any herbs to see if your particular combination
of MS symptoms make it useful or even possible for you to take any
particular herb.
If
the proper precautions are followed when taking herbs, they can be
helpful and effective for reducing many symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis.
