Neurologist Lauren B. Krupp, M.D., director of NYU Langone’s Multiple Sclerosis Comprehensive Care Center in New York City, talks about the reasons you can go from zero symptoms to an MS diagnosis in a matter of weeks.

You may have no signs of the disease at all, then suddenly, you experience your first MS attack. Here's what's really going on to trigger the event.

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Who Is a Typical MS Patient?

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Loss of motor function, memory issues, and fatigue are signs of this disease.

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What Are the Earliest Indicators of MS?

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A perfect storm of genetic variables and environmental factors come together in creating this disease.

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The disease is divided into four categories, but most people fall into the first one.

What Are The Different Types of MS?

What Are the Different Types of MS?

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A neurologic exam and MRI are common tools used to determine if you have this disease.

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Is MS Curable?

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Does Everyone With MS Eventually Need a Wheelchair?

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Although the underpinnings of the disease happen early in life, it takes a perfect storm of events to trigger an MS attack. 

Why Does MS Seem To Strike Out Of The Blue?

Why Does MS Happen All of a Sudden?

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Why Does MS Seem to Strike Out of the Blue?

Why Does MS Seem to Strike Out of the Blue?

Why does MS present when it does is really an unknown question. Someone's doing fine, feeling well, and all of a sudden, these new symptoms develop. Particularly interesting is the fact that the biologic causes or underpinnings of MS probably occur, we think, in the first year or so of life. So why somebody at age 30 should first develop symptoms of MS isn't really clear. Certainly, things that have been associated with, not causing MS but the timing of the development of new symptoms, are things like stress or infections or viral illnesses. These seem to happen often in proximity to the development of an MS clinical event, but stress per se does not cause MS. I emphasize that, because patients often have that question: I have so much stress, is it going to make my MS bad? The reality is life is stressful. We can't avoid stress. It's avoiding life, if you do. There are better or less adaptive ways of dealing with stress. I think it's important not to get stressed about the fact that you're stressed, but to try to work on ways of just managing your stress in a positive, calming sort of fashion.


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Why Does MS Seem to Strike Out of the Blue?

Although the underpinnings of the disease happen early in life, it takes a perfect storm of events to trigger an MS attack.

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