Symptoms
of Multiple Sclerosis
The symptoms of MS can vary depending upon which part of
the brain/spinal cord the damage has occurred.
If the damage occurs on the nerves that are associated with sensations
then numbness is a result. Damage
to the optic nerve leads to temporary or permanent loss of vision.
There are many other symptoms that usually include the inability to use
certain parts of the body.
The symptoms of the neurological disorder can range from
hardly noticeable where the sufferer can live life almost as normal to extremely
bad where the sufferer has severe disabilities.
Most sufferers first notice MS through mild tingling
sensations and numbness, which then go away.
The sufferer will then later suffer from the symptoms again (the sufferer
doesn’t know when they will undergo another attack). This form of the disorder
is known as relapsing remitting MS.
For around 50% of people the attacks do get worse and they
become more debilitated. The form
of the disease is known as secondary progressive disease.
Some sufferers (only a small number) find that the symptoms
gradually worsen over time; they are said to have primary progressive multiple
sclerosis.