Do you know what kind of disease is MS? I read everything online but can you put it in layman terms.?

Answer 1

Basically your immune system is working overtime, trying to find germs/viruses etc to attack. When it can't find any, it starts in on your own tissue, in MS being the myelin sheath covering your nerve fibers. Once it has attacked the myelin sheath, the messages from your brain to various parts of your body can get scrambled or not even 'delivered'. (Think of it as having an extension cord that has a hole in the rubber coating - some of the electricity is going to go out that hole.) Since this disease affects your central nervous system (brain, spinal cord, optic nerves) the most common symptoms deal with vision, feeling/pain and walking. I have had MS for about 3 years, not fun at all, hard to diagnose and hard to treat the symptoms since they change constantly. Have you been diagnosed with possible MS?

Answer 2

The nerves send signals to your brain to perform body functions. When the lining around the nerve is damaged then the signal to the brain is not delivered correctly and the body is unable to perform the function correctly. The lining around the nerve is called a myelin sheath. For some patients the symptoms may come and go and for others the disease gets progressively worse. I worked with a fella that experienced temporary blindness and then later had to use a cane because one leg wouldn't work.

Answer 3

Multiple sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system of no known etiology with lesions in varying parts of brain and spinal chord causing multiple symptoms. It occurs in exacerbations and remissions. It is a diagnosis of exclusion primarily after ruling out others.