Christmas is coming! Christmas is coming! Does the thought of Christmas fill you with joy or does it send you scurrying under the bed in a fit of angst?If you have multiple sclerosis and associate Christmas with errands, chores, and great expectations, now is the time to get off that crazy merry-go-round and make the switch over to realistic... Read more
What if doctors discovered that you have a precursor to multiple sclerosis... would you want to be told? If so, what would you do with this information? A recent study indicates that MRI of the brain may be able to serve as a warning of sign of MS yet to be.“Dr. Darin Okuda of the University of California, San Francisco studied brain... Read more
A recently published report (Dr. Mario Zappia, University of Catania) states that “in an analysis adjusting for age and sex, researchers observed a significant association between MS and headache. The likelihood of headache was more than twofold higher in the MS patients than in the control patients. The increased risk of headache in MS... Read more
The issue of optimism and keeping a positive state of mind comes up often in discussions of multiple sclerosis, and it always makes me cringe. Gives me a knot right in my stomach.I have a very positive attitude about my MS, but I am also a realist. I am not prone to flights of fancy that I can control this disease through positive thoughts. I do... Read more
She's a twenty year old college student whose mother was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis just shy of five years ago. I asked her to tell me about MS from her perspective.She recalled her first thoughts when she heard about the diagnosis, “Oh, well.... this really sucks.” Up to that point, she just thought that mom was weak and run... Read more
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