What Is Multiple Sclerosis (MS)?
MS is a disease that can affect your brain and spinal cord, and can cause problems with vision, balance, muscle control.
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Join Group on FacebookMS is a disease that can affect your brain and spinal cord, and can cause problems with vision, balance, muscle control.
Before you start to worry, know that many signs of multiple sclerosis are the same as symptoms of other health problems.
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It's easy these days to pick up wrong-headed ideas about how to manage your multiple sclerosis (MS). So take a few minutes now to sort out fact from fiction.
MS is a disease that stems from your immune system’s overreaction and that it attacks your own body.
As you learn more about they type of MS you have, you'll have a clearer idea how it may affect you in the coming years.
Many other conditions have symptoms similar to those of MS. Your doctor will need to rule out these other conditions before diagnosing you with MS.
MS is a disease that can affect myelin, the protective coating of the nerves.
Women with MS outnumber men with the condition by nearly 4 to 1. Experts have a few theories that might explain the sex differences in MS rates.
Not only does MS affect more women than men, but some research says that MS symptoms may also hit women harder than men.