Multiple Sclerosis BY: SARAH BURGESS
Dec 24, 2015
Multiple SclerosisBY: SARAH BURGESS
“For every male that is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis there is three
women diagnosed”
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
A chronic, typically progressive disease involving damage to the sheaths of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord
More commonly known as MS
Known as a newer disease
There is no cure
Symptoms
The most common symptom is numbness
Many different symptoms that people encounter Nauseous
Burning feet
Fatigue
Headaches
Muscle spasms
Vertigo
Symptoms
Everyone is different
Different cures for different symptoms Counseling
Exercise
Yoga
Massage
Self-hypnosis
Some symptoms doesn’t mean MS diagnosis
Diagnosis
General Physical Examination First notice something is wrong
Check with family doctor
Listen to your heart
Take your blood pressure
Examine muscles and skin
Diagnosis
Neurologic Examination Family doctor sends to specialist
Tests cranial nerves to head and face
Examine eyes
Sensation
Strength
Ability to detect vibration over various parts of the body
Reflexes
Balance
Walking
Diagnosis/ Tests
Magnetic Resonance Imagine MRI
Produces a picture of brain while sitting inside a tube
Most accurate and helpful test for MS
Doesn’t show MS
Shows changes due to MS
Can confirm MS not the stage
Detects patchy areas of change in the nervous system
Diagnosis/ Tests
Cerebrospinal Fluid Needle inserted into lower back to take out fluid for examination
CFS
Spinal Tap
Used if MRI isn’t conclusive
Diagnosis/ Tests
Evoked Potential Study Measures rate and form of impulses passed through nerves
Simple
EP
Diagnosis in a visual study
Stages
Relapsing-Remitting Acute attacks followed by fuller partial recovery
Receive partial recovery with remaining symptoms
85% of patients start with this stage
Stages
Secondary Progressive After 10-15 years 50% people enter this stage
Conditions will get worse
Pattern begins with relapsing-remitting
Less attacks or possibly no attacks at all
Stages
Primary Progressive Plateaus of attacks
More common in people diagnosed ages 40+
More common in men
15% of people are diagnosed at this stage
Stages
Progressive-Progressive One or more attacks occur
Remissions can last for months or years
Attacks least common at this stage
Can be a lot of symptoms or none at all
Treatments
Drugs slow down the progression but don’t prevent relapses
Most side effects come from the injection Redness
Swollen
Pain
No actual cure
Treatments
Aubajio
Avonex
Betaseron
Copaxone
Extavia
Gilenya
Nocantrone
Plegridy
Rebif
Tecfidera
Tysabri
Pertains to Me