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Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple Sclerosis is caused by the loss of the myelin sheaths around the nerve fibres. This loss causes them to transmit the nerve messages incorrectly. This myelin sheath loss is patchy, variable and often progressive, leading to many different patterns of symptoms.
Common initial symptoms are:-
- Visual problems with reduction or loss of colour vision
- Reduction of night vision in one eye
- Weakness of leg or arm especially after exercise or being tired and dizziness
- Concentration problems
- Continence problems
- Mobility Problems
Multiple Sclerosis may have a rapidly progressive course or the sufferer may only have one attack of visual difficulty with most having a course somewhere between.
Multiple Sclerosis Treatments
Modern Western Medicine
Drug treatment is by high dose steroids during attacks and it is said that Amantadine may help the fatigue. Linoleic Acid (found in certain oils) may be helpful
Complementary Therapy
Please help us to help you by letting your practitioner know about Shared Care so that they might contact us (email to:- editor(at)shared-care.com) with their evidence to add their therapy to this list.
The therapies/educational systems shown below have been noted as helpful for Multiple Sclerosis
These are commonly available:-
| Counselling and Psychotherapy |
| Massage |
| Naturopathy |
| Yoga |
| Less so are:- |
| Nutritional Therapy |
Please also see Approaches Individual to the Practitioner for lists of those whose approaches don't fall into any specific category
The following practitioners have indicated that they have a special interest in Multiple Sclerosis
Please click on the "more.." button for fuller details.
Multiple Sclerosis Blog
Add your contributions to the blog for this page. The button is at the bottom of the page or follow this link to the blog for this page. These can be absolutely anything related to the topic of this page that needs an answer from other members of the community, or a space for you to complain about or comment on anything related to that topic.
Multiple Sclerosis Support Groups
The home country of the group is listed. Most will provide more information, advice, contacts and help wherever you live:-
| National MS Society of Australia | Australia | National |
| OzMS - Australian Multiple Sclerosis Peer Support | Australia | National |
| Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada | Canada | National |
| Multiple Sclerosis International Federation | Great Britain | International |
| Multiple Sclerosis Society of India | India | National |
| MS Society of Ireland | Ireland | National |
| Multiple Sclerosis Society of New Zealand | New Zealand | National |
| Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers | United States of America | National |
| Multiple Sclerosis Association of America | United States of America | National |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | United States of America | National |
Please email editor(at)shared-care.com with the name and URL of your suggestions for additional groups.
Places to Eat and Stay, Tourist, Town and Travel Guides
These sections are designed to provide help in finding restaurants, cafes, hotels, resorts, towns, beaches, travel companies and so on that are user friendly for our communities.
Shopping Zone
Editors Choice
Not all good things come from Amazon. The following are my choices of goodies that I have come across or in which I have had some involvement. If you want to add anything please email me (editor(at)shared-care.com) with details
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | Gluten free cookbook; lots of good recipes |
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | |
| Dr Michaels New Horizons | Self help tapes from No Panic |
| No Panic | |
| Lumie Sunlamp | Sunlamp for SAD (works for me! (ed)) |
| Lumie | |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | Free downloadable book about treating migraine |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | |
| The FISH Plan for Irritable Bowel Syndrome | Free downloadable book about treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome |
| The FISH Plan for IBS | |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | Necessary dietary reading for everyone |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | |
