Managing MS

A recent study showed that 25% of patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) suffer from cognitive decline even if they have very subtle if any physical disabilities. As many as 70% of MS patients suffer from cognitive decline (many with physical disabilities as well).  The cognitive difficulties may include memory issues, multitasking, and information processing speed.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) has many unexpected effects on your life, from sleep difficulty to cognitive impairment to sensitivity to temperature extremes.  But one which wouldn’t come to mind is that MS may increase sex drive and even sexual function.  Now, many of you may be saying “hold on just a minute” because more often MS

You may be wondering what the heck is a “crap gap” and is it really a medical term used in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) treatments.  Yes -it really is.  The “Crap gap” is the period of time between doses of your scheduled disease-modifying therapy (DMT)when you are soon to be due for your next treatment and

Now more than ever the public has been focused on optimizing their health through better diet, more exercise, utilizing AI to answer questions and gain guidance, taking vitamins and supplements, and yes, even following some well-intentioned but misguided advice on vaccines.  But all of these attempts need to be performed in an educated manner, keeping

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is characterized by repeated “insults”or attacks on the brain in which the coating of the nerve cells (myelin) is stripped off during an immune system attack on the brain.  In the most common form, Relapsing Remitting MS (RRMS), the lesions partly or completely heal after each relapse. Clinical symptoms improve or disappear

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune disorder in which the coating of nerve cells of the Central Nervous System (the brain and spinal cord) are repeatedly attacked. The result is recurrent bouts of neurologic dysfunction resulting from slowed nerve transmission of messages. Because the central nervous system controls so much of the body’s functions (vision,

Historically, neurologists and the public have thought that memory loss is a normal part of aging. Then emerged the school of thought that while cognitive impairment was more common in the elderly, it was still not a normal part of aging. Dementia was due to Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) due to an accumulation of Aβ (amyloid

Each Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patient will have a different experience with their disease.  Some will have one flare in their lifetime (clinically isolated syndrome) while others may have ongoing relapsing and progression of their disease and disability.  Therefore, how treatments are chosen and how often they are changed is individualized per patient. Part of the