What kind of MS Brain function problems can
result from the scarring that Multiple Sclerosis can cause to the brain?
damages the spinal cord, the brain and other parts of the Central
Nervous system. Depending on where the scarring or nerve
up, this can affect how our bodies can function.
considered an autoimmune disorder, where the body becomes confused and
attacks itself, as if it is a foreign invader that the body needs to
defend itself against. MS is
known for attacking the nerves, and especially the myelin sheath
along the spinal cord and various parts of the brain.
Our bodies are
at least 60% nerves and our brains are at least 80% nerves and because
of this, Multiple
affect many parts of our entire bodies. The myelin sheath,
along the spinal cord and the brain are the 2 main areas of the body
attacks. Multiple Sclerosis or
multiple scarring can also be a result through out other nerves
throughout the body, but the ms tests do not detect the other scarring
throughout the body as well as it can be detected in the brain on the
Multiple Sclerosis attacks the body, it causes scarring or lesions
along the spinal cord, throughout the brain or possibly even scarring
in other nerves through out the body.
A MS MRI
brain scan can be performed to determine how much ms scarring can be
seen in he brain on the test results.
are the scarring that can be seen on mri test results, which are a
characteristic of MS that is present in most cases of MS. Depending on
where the MS
lesions, MS scarring,
ends up, this
can affect many bodily functions and systems throughout
the body. When the scarring or lesions
are present throughout the brain, this can result in many more
ms symptoms, that can affect how
well we function on an intermittent basis or on a more consistent,
attacks can affect the MS brain
in many ways that can decrease how well
our brains and our bodies function. MS attacks the myelin
sheath along the spinal cord, which results most often in demyelination
of the spine, that results in scarring replacing the myelin, so that it
can no longer do its job of protecting the spinal cord as it should.
Sclerosis can also attack the myelin throughout the brain and cause ms
scarring, ms lesions or ms plaques scattered through out the brain.
Once the ms brain is evaluated doing a brain mri ms can be
diagnosed through evaluating the brain and the spinal cord to determine
if Multiple Sclerosis is present.
the ms brain is attacked all kinds of symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis
can result problems, s that can result from the
scarring that ms can
cause to the brain is a group of symptoms called cognitive brain
function problems.including ms memory problems, ms cognitive brain
function and other ms symptoms.
MS Brain function problems that
can result from Multiple Sclerosis attacking the brain or the spinal
cord can include any of the following:
having difficulties with understanding what is going on around you;
consciously and unconsciously comprehending what is going on in the
world around us becomes more difficult.
Thought Processes are
interrupted more often -
reasoning through things enough to draw conclusions from the
observations that you make about what is happening in a given situation
becomes more difficult.
it becomes more difficult with making a decision about something.
things ahead of time becomes more difficult
becomes more difficult - reasoning
through a situation, circumstance or through information becomes
increasing more difficult.
becomes more difficult
or ms memory becomes worse.
is altered –
it becomes more difficult you to interpret what is going on around you
or for you to make sense of what is going on around you.
concepts becomes more difficult
sense of the world around you can become more difficult
* ms memory problems
- can become worse - if
this becomes severe enough, it can become more difficult to remember way people
say to you or what you did just 15 to 20 minutes ago.
- can be mild
to severe and when they become severe enough it can become
harder and harder for you to function
on your own without needing much
more assistance to do the daily activities to take care of yourself
that we often take for granted that we can do for us to take care of
ourselves and our families.
personality change -
can occur sometimes, depending on which part of the brain is where the
ms lesions are found. If the brain scarring is more severe,
can sometimes dramatically change the person's personality to a larger
degree, but this isn't always the case. This is a result that
not seen very often in the majority of the cases of Multiple Sclerosis.
Personality changes might occur at times, depending on which
of the brain is affected and to what degree the scarring has
trauma can also result in personality changes and the doctor must
determine which condition is present.
can help those with MS that have scarring in the brain to help the body
to repair the ms
I have found that with my own case of Multiple
Sclerosis, with the scarring the brain that a few things
do help the body to start to reverse the damage that has occurred
because of MS.
to help our bodies fight back against MS
cut out saturated over processed fats and add in health oils and foods
to help restore balance the amount of essential fatty acids that need
to be include in the daily dietary intake.
certain supplements -
to replenish vitamins that are deficient or depleted that the
brain needs to aid in repairing and reconnecting neurons in the brain
that help it to function more like it should be functioning.
* Exercise –
certain types of exercise can actually help to reprogram the brain and
help the brain to start to function better again. Exercise
and intense physical therapy are known to help to redevelop neural
pathways through out the brain that help retrain the brain and
reconnect the different parts of the brain so that they start to
function better and learn to communicate with each other again.
are certain Brain Exercises that I have found that have helped me to
function so much better than I did at the beginning after I was first
diagnosed with MS that can help you to function better again.
this helps reduce how much the body attacks itself and allows the body
to start to repair and replenish the parts of the body that have
that I have found, by my own trial and error approach, which have
helped me with reducing how stressed out I feel so much of the
time, include meditation, breath
therapy, music or sound therapy, color therapy or chromotherapy,
visualization, light therapy, guided imagery,tai chi and yoga
may be other techniques and methods that can help to
reduce stress levels, but these are the ways that I have found that
have helped me when I become to over stressed, because of my MS over
reaction to stimulation, for me to be able to calm down.
Finding ways to reduce how those of us with Multiple
Sclerosis tend to over react to stress can make a huge difference in
how well the nerves work in our brains, because an over reaction to
stress can actually confuse or scramble the signals of the neurons in
the brain as they try to communicate with each other. When
the brain signals become confused or scrambled, this can greatly
reduce how well we can function overall, since the brain is
the master controller for the whole body.
ways to reduce our over reaction can make a very big difference in how
several natural and alternative ways that can help to reduce how severe
the confusion to the signals in the brain can become, after the
presence of multiple sclerosis lesions in the brain are already present.
frequent our ms brain functions and how severe our symptoms of MS can
The ways that we have found that can help can include:
Saturated fats from your diet and add in the "good"
unsaturated fats -- including anything labeled
"hydrogenated" or "partially-hydrogenated" on labels of pre-packaged or
in "good fats" to diet
-- include extra virgin olive oil, extra virgin coconut oil
(unprocessed as much as possible), nuts and nut oils, flaxseed oil and
ground flaxseeds to your diet.
Omega 3 oil supplements
-- include evening oil primrose, fish oils (mercury-free) black currant
oil and vitamin E oil (non-soy where possible) - - this helps to
libricate the joints and helps to provide raw materials for helping the
body to repair the damage to the myelin sheath over
stress on the liver to help it to detoxify better
-- take milk thistle (herb), take the green sea algae called chlorella
reduce caffeine intake (coffee, chocolate), stop smoking and drinking
alcohol. Caffein, nicotine and alcohol are all very tough on
liver. During the initial healing phases of the MS disease,
all that you can to help speed recovery by reducing the toxic effecof
everything on eh eart
* Reduce stress on your
system -- meditate, do deep breathing exercises or breath
therapy, or play relaxing music to help you to alleviate internal
* Retrain the brain
doing brain exercises
-- there is software available on the market that help to retrain the
brain to help it to function better. The brain is much more
changeable and "plastic" than it was thought to be before.
means that the brain can be trained to reconnect neural pathways and
help it to function better over time.
Doing all that you can to
help the brain to function better can make all of the difference in how
much your body can function after MS attacks and causes scarring to the
brain and/or the spnal cord.