| There are over 50 MS signs and symptoms with | | | | it very difficult for a person to get thru some |
| more being discovered all the time. A complex | | | | days. Often called MS lassitude fatigue can come |
| disease that affects the central nervous system, | | | | from a variety of sources; the demyelination in |
| there is literally no part of the body that multiple | | | | the central nervous system is a primary cause |
| sclerosis does not affect. Symptoms vary in | | | | with heat, sleep disturbances, over exertion and |
| terms of their severity and how long they last as | | | | medication contributing to it greatly as well. |
| well as how they are treated. While there are | | | | Fatigue in multiple sclerosis can be very |
| some treatments for MS itself, many of the | | | | overwhelming making it impossible for a person to |
| treatments available focus on treating the | | | | complete in the most basic tasks for themselves |
| symptoms of this disease. | | | | on a bad day. |
| Cognitive dysfunction is one of the most common | | | | Spasticity and stiffness in another one of the |
| of the MS signs and symptoms, and yet they are | | | | most common MS signs and symptoms, this |
| often overlooked as benign or not associated with | | | | symptom is best understood as the muscles |
| this disease. This group of symptoms includes | | | | inability to relax as much or as easily as they |
| short term memory problems, attention | | | | should. Spasticity tends to be asymmetrical |
| difficulties, and difficulty in assimilating and | | | | meaning that it most often occurs on one side of |
| processing information. It is difficult and | | | | the body, and it also occurs more frequently in |
| overwhelming for the MS patient to organize | | | | the legs than it does in the arms. This symptom |
| thoughts and tasks and they can easily get | | | | is the one that is most responsible for immobility |
| overwhelmed trying. Between 35 and 66% of | | | | in patients, as severe spasms make muscles rigid |
| multiple sclerosis patients suffer from some sort | | | | and unable to respond to the movements |
| of cognitive impairment and often this can be one | | | | necessary for walking. |
| of the earliest signs but may be passed off as | | | | There are nearly as many treatments for MS and |
| something else like being overtired or stressed. | | | | its symptoms are there are symptoms, and what |
| Fatigue; which is closely intertwined with cognitive | | | | treatment a doctor might prescribe will be based |
| dysfunction is another one of the MS signs and | | | | on the type of multiple sclerosis you have as well |
| symptoms that is very common. Fatigue can | | | | as the symptoms you are having. |
| often aggravate brain function symptoms making | | | | |