A handicapped parking sticker or rearview mirror sign does not slap a permanent label of “disabled” on you when you have multiple sclerosis. It is simply a tool of aid for those “bad” days when you are greatly fatigued or in pain. You may feel uncomfortable using the handicapped parking, especially when you may look [...]

Pregnancy can stress a healthy woman's body. You would think that pregnancy would be dangerous for a woman who has multiple sclerosis (MS). Amazingly the truth is that pregnancy doesn't affect the long-term course of multiple sclerosis. Furthermore multiple sclerosis has no adverse effects on the course of pregnancy, on the labor stages, or on [...]

Genetics is but a small role which dictates who and who does not develop multiple sclerosis (MS). Medical researchers do not have a definitive answer as to the causes but they are closer to understanding why some people develop the disease while others do not. Statistically, multiple sclerosis is rather uncommon in the United States [...]

Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease which attacks the protective nerve coating called myelin. Because of this, your muscles do not always get the right signals from the brain in regards to releasing and contracting. Spasticity aka muscle stiffness and spasms are a result of the missed signals. These spasms and spasticity affect the muscles [...]

When you have MS, it is your nerves that are affected as well as how they send signals out to your body when it comes to movement and other body functions. One of these functions that become affected by the MS is your vision. Affected eyesight is a common enough problem in people with multiple [...]

If you are an MS sufferer, it is the summertime blues you have to beat rather than those that usually happen in the winter time. Summer can wreck havoc on your symptoms during the summer months or any time it is hot thanks to the intolerances to heat. So you have two choices to make. [...]

In the past, women who had Multiple sclerosis (MS) were cautioned not to become pregnant. Today, that advise is generally not an accepted one among physicians. Pregnancy has been shown to have little if any impact on MS. It has even been shown to have a temporary protection against relapses during the time of pregnancy [...]

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is not a one size fits all disease. It afflicts each person who has it differently and therefore must be lumped in different categories in order to delineate the progression of the disease. Doctors have studied the disease and decided that there are four main types of MS.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects many aspects of life and one of the most disconcerting and embarrassing aspects is sex. It is quite normal to have a decrease in sexual desire because the MS symptoms like fatigue, incontinence problems and muscle spasms can really hamper a romantic situation can’t they? There are some things you can [...]

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a persistent disease which can be quite debilitating because it affects the central nervous system, primarily the spinal cord and brain. Many doctors and medical researchers call MS an autoimmune disease as well because your immune system attacks certain things in your body like the myelin protecting the nerves as if [...]