Multiple
sclerosis nervous system and MS nerves
Multiple
Sclerosis is an autoimmune disorder, where the body attacks itself as if it is
a foreign invader that it needs to defend itself against. Multiple Sclerosis is known for attacking
the central nervous system and causing scarring or lesions that can be seen on
mri tests, which are used for determining if Multiple Sclerosis is the culprit
for the set of symptoms that the patient is experiencing.
Multiple
Sclerosis is most often seen to cause scarring or damage to the myelin sheath
along the spinal cord or cause scarring or lesions through out the brain. The
symptoms of MS can vary greatly because it depends on which part of the nervous
system that is being targeted in each particular case of Multiple Sclerosis.
The
ms scarring or ms lesions, which result because of present of MS in the body, can
interfere in the transfer of the nerve signals from the brain to the other
parts of the body. This can result in
the nerve signals either being block or confused or it can result in the signal
becoming more intermittent, where the nerve signal is only transmitted part of
the time.
Since the
brain is the master controller of the body, which sends instructions to
different parts of the body to instruct the different parts of the body on how
to function, the blocking or scrambling of the nerve signals or instructions
sent from the brain can affect a huge amount of ways that the body functions on
a regular basis.
There are many effects that Multiple Sclerosis has on the ms brain, that can affect what we can or can not do.
ms response and how well our bodies can function
The long
list of what the brain controls can affect how well the following can function:
* Hands – difficulty picking things up,
holding things, writing, difficulty feeding yourself, hand pain, hand numbness,
hand spasms, if severe enough nerve damage results in the lack of being able to
use one or both of the hands
* Arms – muscle strength, muscle and
nerve function, arm pain, arm numbness, arm spasms, if severe enough, nerve
damage can result in the lack of being able to use the one or both of the arms
* Legs – lack of ability or difficulty
with standing, balancing, walking, difficulty with moving your legs, legs
spasms, leg pain, sciatic pain, numbness in one or both of legs (either partial
numbness or total numbness of the entire leg), loss of the ability to pick up
or reposition the leg for being able to control where you move your legs to,
knees collapse and will not support your body weight
* Feet – loss of control of your feet
(foot drop), foot pain, difficulty picking up your foot to take a step or loss
of the ability to control your feet for being able to take a step for being
able to walk
* Eyes – vision problems (blurry vision,
seeing double, trouble focusing, dimness of vision), eye pain, intermittent
vision that come and goes, partial or total loss of vision in one or both eyes
(if the damage to the retinal nerve is severe enough)
* Hearing – ringing in the ears
(tinnitus), intermittent hearing (that comes and goes), partial or total loss
of hearing (if the nerve damage is severe enough)
* Speaking – speech problems can include
stuttering, slurring words when speaking, difficulty finding the right words
when trying to form a sentence (more of a cognitive problem), scrambling or
confusing words (dyslexia), or if extreme enough, possible loss of the ability
to form sentence may also be a possible result, although not as common.
* Swallowing – partial or total loss of the
ability to swallow with out chocking on the food or liquids that you are trying
to swallow (this is a more extreme brain function problem that is often seen in
more cases of head trauma than in MS, but this is also a possible symptom of MS
if the demyelination of certain parts of the brain are severe enough)
* Memory – this can be mild to severe or
it can be constant or intermittent (comes and goes sort of randomly).
* Cognitive – this includes a whole host of
brain functions including our abilities to connect with our surroundings and
register what is going on around us, the ability to logically think through a
situation or a problem, solving puzzles and problems, understanding what other
people are saying to you, comprehending how what is going on around us relates
to us
* Bladder control – loss of bladder control or
incontinence, bladder drains when it should not be draining, bladder retains
when it should drain, frequent bladder infections can result
* Bowel control – loss of bowel control,
intestines empty partially or totally without much warning, end up with
diarrhea too easily and too often
* Detoxification
problems – the
main parts of the body that eliminate toxins from the body start to function
improperly, including frequent constipation, problems with liver functioning
less or not functioning much at all, intestinal pain or discomfort, frequent
nauseousness after eating, problems with the lymph system not draining as it
should causing more frequent problems with allergies (both food, trees or
pollens, dust, and/or chemical allergies)
* Weakened Immune
System – frequent
infections can result, difficulty fighting off infections, have too many
infections too close together, like the body can recover very easily from each
infection before it contracts the next infection.
* Feeling or Sensation - Numbness, Tingling, Pain can result, or odd sensations that are often intense that appear to come and go sort of randomly.
* Muscle and Nerve Response
- this can include Spasms or spasticity, Twitches, Ticks and other
involuntary or often uncontrollable movements of the legs, feet, hands
or arms.
If any or
most of these MS symptoms are present, this can become more than just
annoying. Multiple Sclerosis symptoms
can cause out bodies to function less, sometimes to a more extreme degree,
where we have a much more difficult time function or we function so much less
that we have some things that we can no longer do that we could do before MS
entered our lives.
The
symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis can often be severe or at least reduce how much
we can physically, mentally and emotionally function, but the situation is not
as hopeless as it may appear initially.
We have found that in our own case of Multiple Sclerosis that there are
alternative and natural ways that can help to reduce both how severe and how
frequently the symptoms of MS can become.
These ways can include:
* MS diet and dietary changes
* Restoring ms vitamin deficiencies and nutrient imbalances through out the body
* Reducing MS stress
* Exercising to help strengthen muscles and help redevelop nerve pathways to help our bodies start to function again. MS exercise helps to rebuild muscle, retrain the brain, redevelop nerve pathways, increase stamina, boost the ms immune system, increase oxygen and blood flow to the brain and the rest of the body.
* Detoxifying our bodies
* Restoring balance to our bodies in several different ways.
Finding ways to reduce our over reaction can make a very big difference in how severe orhow
frequent our symptoms of MS can become. An over reaction to stress
(both internal and external stress) have been found to trigger relapses,
attacks and exacerbations in MS.To
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