Other manifestations and symptoms of multiple sclerosis
The focuses of multiple sclerosis can be located in any area of the central and peripheral nervous system, so sclerosis symptoms may be quite different, and individually matched for each patient. But there are manifestations of the disease, which can be observed most often:
1. Sensitive violations: tingling sensation or numbness in hands, feet or one half of the body; bad feeling the floor under the feet («as if the cotton pads under the feet», «often lose slippers and did not notice this »).
2. Defeat motor areas: high tendon reflexes, measured the stress in the legs, less often in the hands (by increasing muscle tone), as well as possible, and paralysis («decline of muscle strength in hands and feet»).
3. The defeat of the cerebellum: a violation of coordination in the body, stagger when walking, clumsiness and tremor of the hands and feet.
4. Visual impairment: reduced vision in one eye sometimes to complete blindness; black dot in the center of the view field, a sense of muddy glass, dimout behind the eye. This is a manifestation of retrobulbarnogo neuritis (optic nerve lesion at the site of the eye as a result of the defeat of his myelinic envelope).
5. Nystagmus: impaired movement of the eyeball («objects appear double»).
6. Urination violations: the inability to tolerate when the urge to help, urine incontinence.
7. The defeat of the facial nerve: weakness of muscles of one half of the face; reduction in taste sensitivity.
8. Emotional disorders often develop against on a background of multiple sclerosis: excessive anxiety, poor background mood (depression), or, conversely, underestimation of their condition, inappropriate jocularity (euphoria).
9. Typical sclerosis symptoms are constant tiredness and fatigue, even after mild physical and mental burden; feeling «passing an electric current» down the spine with the head tilt, the aggravation of existing symptoms after a cup of hot tea, soup plates, after taking bath («hot bath» symptom) .
And this is not the whole spectrum of multiple sclerosis signs! All of these sclerosis symptoms, alone or in various combinations develop within a few days after the exacerbation (often within 2-3 weeks) almost completely disappear.
By the way, in the early years the functional recovery of the disease may occur even without treatment and shorter time. Or maybe so that the woman even did not pay attention to short-term palm numbness, low volatility or decline in vision in one eye.
It’s important to note once more, that each multiple sclerosis is different in different patients, which proceeds on an individual scheme. One can never predict in advance how severe will be manifestations of the disease, and how often worsening will be and how long remissions will last.
According to statistics, every fourth case of multiple sclerosis is innocent – even over 20-25 years after disease the person is able to stay healthy.