Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis
Symptoms of multiple sclerosis are unpredictable and will change between patients and over time. Certain symptoms may appear more distinctly after specific triggers or over prolonged periods of time, before begininning to, or completely, dissapearing. With no cause, or official treatment, the symptoms may be difficult or uncomfortable to deal with. One of the most proabable symptom is disability, as 85% of patients treated with relapsing-remitting MS, over 50% of them will convert to secondary progressive MS and will slowly accumulate a disability. The remaining will have mostly recovery, with some relapses and occasional neurological disturbances.
Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis
- Loss of balance or dizziness
- Dry Mouth
- Incoordination
- Bladder dysfunction
- Dysphagia (difficulty swallowing)
- L’hermitte’s (sensation of an electrical shock radiating down the spine when the neck is flexed)
- Bowel Constipation, Diarrhea and Incontinence
- Mood Libality or Bipolar Affective Disorder
- Dysarthria (difficulty speaking)
- Cognitive Impairment (poor mental function, eg. Confusion)
- Fatigue and Fatigability
- Gait (difficulty in walking)
- Depression
- Hormonal Influences for woman
- Inappropriate Affect (emotional and social incontinence)
- Optic neuritis (inflammation of optic nerve)
- Pain
- Paroxysmal Symptoms (sudden reaction to movement or stimulation)
- Sensory Impairment (Numbness, tingling etc.)
- Spasms
- Spasticity (to move or act in spasms)
- Tremor
- Uhthoff’s Phenomena (Intolerance to heat)
- Useless hand syndrome (of Oppenheimer)
- Weakness