What Multiple
Sclerosis brain function problems are there?When 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.
Multiple Sclerosis or MS is considered an autoimmune disorder, where
the body becomes confuseted 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 Sclerosis can 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 that Multiple Sclerosis often attacks.
MS can attack and damage the nerves
throughout the body, which usually results in scarring, where ever the nerves
have been affected.
Multiple Sclerosis lesions
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.
A MS MRI brain scan can be performed to
determine how much ms scarring can be seen in he brain on the test results.
Depending on where the MS lesions,
MS scarring,
or ms nerve damage
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, daily basis.
MS 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 demyleination 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.
Multiple 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.
Once 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.
Multiple
Sclerosis Cognitive Brain function problems that can be affected
by Multiple Sclerosis can include:
* Comprehension problems – 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.
* Decision-Making problems – it becomes more difficult with
making a decision about something.
* Planning things ahead of time becomes more
difficult
* Reasoning becomes more difficult -
reasoning through a situation, circumstance or through information becomes
increasing more difficult.
* Learning becomes more difficult
* Remembering or ms memory becomes worse.
* perception 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.
* understanding concepts becomes more difficult
* making 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.
* MS cognitive problems - 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.
* ms
personality change - this can occur sometimes, depending on which part
of the brain is where the ms lesions are found. If the brain scarring is
more severe, this can sometimes dramatically change the person's personality by
a much larger amount, but this would be more often be present in the more
severe cases of MS that attacks and causes more severe scarring to the brain.
ngewould be in tin a few of the more extreme cases
of MS where there is major scarring in the brain, since certain parts of the
brain that have been damaged in head trauma cases have been found to
drastically change the personality of the person, but this is not a very common
occurrence in the majority of cases of Multiple Sclerosis.
What can help those with MS that have scarring in
the brain to help the body to start
to repair the ms scarring in the brain?
Well, 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.
Ways to help our bodies fight back against ms brain function problems can include:
* Dietary changes - 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.
*Add 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.
There 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.
* Reduce Stress - 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 been damaged because
of MS.
Ways 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
There 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.
Finding ways to reduce our over reaction can make a
very big difference in how severe or
how frequent our ms brain functions and how severe our symptoms of MS can
become.
There are 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.
The ways that we have found that can help can include:
Diet Changes
* Remove saturated
fats or trans fats from your diet, including butter, cheese, and other
dairy products, over processed fats in boxed, canned or pre-packaged
foods (often labelled as hyprogenated or partially hydrogenated fats)
*
Add in the "good"
unsaturated fats, such as extra virgin olive oil, extra virgin coconut
oil (not hydrogenated), nut oils, such as walnut, almond or hazelnut
oils, rapeseed oil.
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