About Multiple Sclerosis.

What is Multiple Sclerosis?

Right so; what is this world that's so confusing and sometimes difficult pronounce?! What does it mean, what does it look like? How did it happen? How does it happen? Would it kill you? Would you need a wheelchair?

I'll try my best to explain in a way that's not like the doctors would explain I.E not in a mundane  manner and get past the millions of questions! 

Multiple Sclerosis is deemed ( I say deemed as there are numerous theories as to why and how it happens) an autoimmune condition affecting the central nervous system, so the brain and the spinal cord, which affectively branches out to the whole body, so MS affects everything! It being seen as an 'autoimmune' condition means that the immune system of the body (that which fights off things like colds and infections) is at war with the nervous system because the bodily 'army' the white blood cells cross over to where they are not meant to be (crossing the blood brain barrier), to where the brain and spine are. Therefore they see the nerve cells present there as abnormal and foreign in (the same way they would see cells of things like viruses) so start to attack them, attacking the insulating cover of these cells called the myelin sheath which allow the speedy conduction of signals that fly through our bodies, this is how all the damage that MS leads to occurs. 

To simplify things, the example of electrical wires are used to demonstrate the effect of the damage. Wires that are damaged lead to an electrical current that is unable to pass to it's destination properly. How I like to explain it rather, is a traffic jam on a motorway. On a normal day, people tend to be travelling at high speed, when there is traffic, things are slowed down, in the same way it would depend on the severity of the incident and thus the speed of the traffic, depending on the amount of damage done to the nervous system, the difficulty expressed and the severity of the condition. This does not have a set course with MS, that is why there may be many people with MS but they all look different, for example; some running a marathon yet others seemingly drunk and in an extreme case even wheelchair bound. Simply because the damage is almost like a game of minecraft, where there are only certain points, nerves in the body which are damaged.

Multiple Sclerosis is more present in females rather than males, thus one of the reasons I was encouraged to start blogging about it being that there are many female MSERS ( easier way to say people with MS!) that have blogs, but not as many males. It isn't contagious so no reason to be frightened if somebody says, ''I have MS''. The disease having impact in many different forms, reduces the life expectancy of an individual. There are four types of the condition and more 'theories' as to how it happens. To avoid boring anybody further ( I feel being sciency is the best way to explain things!) I will leave those things for a rainy day!