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Classic symptoms include sensory loss; spasticity; bladder, bowel, and sexual dysfunction; fatigue; and muscle weakness. However, the presenting symptoms of MS are highly variable among patients.
Dr Shiv Saidha of Johns Hopkins University and his patient discuss strategies to convey a new diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and to foster shared decision-making for optimal disease management.
Up to 80% of men and 70% of women with MS experience sexual dysfunction — yet fewer than one in five physicians address it outside specialist programs.
Join Drs Anne Cross and Riley Bove as they discuss menopause in multiple sclerosis, including overlapping symptoms, hormone therapy, and why this transition shouldn't catch anyone off guard.
Pain, psychiatric, and neurologic symptoms of multiple sclerosis appear years before diagnosis, with similar patterns across ethnic and socioeconomic groups, a study shows.
Dr Francois Bethoux, MD, and physical therapist Patricia Bobryk discuss multidisciplinary approaches for spasticity in multiple sclerosis.
Although rarely used in the US, it may be time to revisit HRT for women with MS, as it eases overlapping symptoms and offers a justifiable benefit-risk profile, experts say.
With chronic pain common among people with multiple sclerosis (MS), approximately 20% of patients report opioid use ― despite warnings that the drugs are generally not recommended for the ...
For example, for a patient with MS who is already having some symptoms of frequency and urgency of the bladder, prescribing a diuretic to control blood pressure might well lead to bladder ...
An expert panel defined smoldering-associated worsening in MS, proposing a unique pathology and optimal clinical and research strategies. But one expert questioned the smoldering concept’s validity.
