My symptoms over the years have been relatively mild and infrequent so that I have never been able to identify factors which bring on new symptoms. I'm pretty sure that my current symptoms were initiated by some serious emotional stress from dealing with some problems at home.
I was just curious if anyone has been able to definitley identify events that trigger their own relapses. What are they? Febrile illness, immunizations, becoming over-heated, over-stressed, certain ...

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone experiences shortness of breath or have trouble breathing while having a tremor attack.

I experience this, and it frightens me of course. Yesterday I had an almost "full body" tremor attack, I get very short of breath and the rest of the day I have very weak legs with tremored walking.

Please note that I do still smoke, (i know, need to quit) , but, I am not short ...

Due to a basic lack of symptoms for a number of years I have not really kept up with all the latest MS news and research. With a recent return of symptoms I have again begun reading and trying to catch up somewhat.
I'm interested in prognosis which I realize is highly variable from one individual to the next. As with many other aspects of MS there seems to be a lot of conflicting reports ...

All my life I have had periodic bouts of severe stomach ache and bloating that was initially mistaken and treated as gastric ulcer. Over the years I realized that the problem is simply severe gas retention that feels like a stabbing knife- like sharp pain which is only relieved with a right side lying position and the use of simethicone.
I also find myself extremely susceptible to fungal skin infections which occur several times a ...

Hi folks,

I have "clinically isolated syndrome," which translates loosely into one bout of Optic Neuritis and some numbness and, well, you know the drill.

My GP isn't terribly interested in exploring anything like root causes, Lyme disease, etc. He said I should take it to the UCSF MS Clinic (I have an appointment with them but they're hard to get to and slow to respond). He also mentioned casually that he doesn't keep up ...

I have a question in mind from long time ago, how is possible to a pregnant woman recover (during this period) most of her problems caused by MS if these problems are derived by a destruction in the myelin sheet? It has no big sense; if there is a hole, there is and how could it disappear? Is the sheet remielyneted during a short period and returned to the old status in few days?

Rita

Press update on this ThisIsMS article: http://www.thisisms.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=116&mode=thread&order=1&thold=0
and http://www.jneuroinflammation.com/content/1/1/3
From: http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=11042

HI everyone!

I'm new here, though not new to MS, and just introduced myself on another thread.

Has anyone been told their chest muscles are weak thus making breathing "seem" labored? My MS doc explains this sometimes happens to PwMS but is no real problem, it just "seems" like it is. He also says if pulmonary function tests are done it would prove I was getting enough O2. He did not listen to my chest, ...

After previously discrediting the treatment,they are now calling for studies.

http://www.nationalmssociety.org/Clinup-Naltrexone.asp
National MS Society | Treatments

Dr. Agrawal proposed that LDN reduces disease activity in MS by reducing the destruction of oligodendrocytes, the cells that manufacture myelin.

Hopefully studies are on the way soon to prove or disprove.

I would like to bring to your collective attention the latest webcast by DIRECT-MS. It is entitled Preventing Multiple Sclerosis and is the second in a series of web casts regarding nutrition and Multiple Sclerosis. The focus of the Prevention presentation is how MS can be easily, safely and inexpensively prevented by focusing on protective factors. This is a must see for those people with MS who have children.

Our previous webcast, Nutritional Strategies for ...