Introduction
If you or a loved one have been recently diagnosed, or have been living with Multiple Sclerosis, you are now all set to learn the most up to date information about how to manage, alleviate and possibly even reverse your symptoms. Before we get started, let 's consider what Multiple Sclerosis is, what types there are, and what symptoms you may expect.
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist, was the first to describe Multiple Sclerosis (MS) back in 1868. Despite more than 140 years of research, this disease is still shrouded in controversy and mystery.
The major consensus is that Multiple Sclerosis is an inflammatory demyelinating disease. That is a fancy term for saying that this disease causes …show more content…
This type of MS starts to get steadily worse from the beginning of the onset of the disease. This type will also have flare-ups, oftentimes with no remission.
These are the four main types of MS. There are other types of Multiple Sclersosis that you will hear about. For instance, Benign Multiple Sclerosis. This term is used when a patient 's symptoms have not progressed or gotten worse in 15 …show more content…
This is when the disease progresses quickly within the first five years of diagnosis. Fulminate Multiple Sclerosis is also called Malignant Multiple Sclerosis or Marburg Multiple Sclerosis.
Finally, when someone who has Multiple Sclerosis experiences a dramatically slower progression of symptoms later in life, you may hear the term Burned-Out Multiple Sclerosis. This is the ideal situation and the treatments you will learn about in the book will support this decrease of symptoms.
Now that you have a deeper understanding of what Multiple Sclerosis is, what the symptoms are, and what types of Multiple Sclerosis may be diagnosed, you can begin to consider treatment and recovery options.
According to the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America, "When a patient begins a treatment regimen early in his or her disease course, disease activity is slowed. This not only reduces the number and severity of symptom flare-ups, as well as delays the progression of the disease (and possibly delays any related disability), but also reduces the number of active lesions that appear on an MRI."
If you or a loved one have been recently diagnosed, or have been living with Multiple Sclerosis, you are now all set to learn the most up to date information about how to manage, alleviate and possibly even reverse your symptoms. Before we get started, let 's consider what Multiple Sclerosis is, what types there are, and what symptoms you may expect.
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist, was the first to describe Multiple Sclerosis (MS) back in 1868. Despite more than 140 years of research, this disease is still shrouded in controversy and mystery.
The major consensus is that Multiple Sclerosis is an inflammatory demyelinating disease. That is a fancy term for saying that this disease causes …show more content…
This type of MS starts to get steadily worse from the beginning of the onset of the disease. This type will also have flare-ups, oftentimes with no remission.
These are the four main types of MS. There are other types of Multiple Sclersosis that you will hear about. For instance, Benign Multiple Sclerosis. This term is used when a patient 's symptoms have not progressed or gotten worse in 15 …show more content…
This is when the disease progresses quickly within the first five years of diagnosis. Fulminate Multiple Sclerosis is also called Malignant Multiple Sclerosis or Marburg Multiple Sclerosis.
Finally, when someone who has Multiple Sclerosis experiences a dramatically slower progression of symptoms later in life, you may hear the term Burned-Out Multiple Sclerosis. This is the ideal situation and the treatments you will learn about in the book will support this decrease of symptoms.
Now that you have a deeper understanding of what Multiple Sclerosis is, what the symptoms are, and what types of Multiple Sclerosis may be diagnosed, you can begin to consider treatment and recovery options.
According to the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America, "When a patient begins a treatment regimen early in his or her disease course, disease activity is slowed. This not only reduces the number and severity of symptom flare-ups, as well as delays the progression of the disease (and possibly delays any related disability), but also reduces the number of active lesions that appear on an MRI."