If there is a disease that presents with many confounding symptoms, multiple sclerosis (MS) is it. MS occurs when the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks and consumes the nerve coverings (myelin). This often leads to nerve damage and cuts off contact between the body and brain. MS affects less than 200 thousand people annually in the U.S.

There are several MS treatment options but no cure. It takes laboratory tests or imaging to diagnose MS. The symptoms, harshness, and length of MS can fluctuate from individual to individual. Many patients have no symptoms for the larger portion of their lives, but others can suffer the terrible persistent symptoms over the long-term:

1. Eyesight problems
MS patients often suffer from blurred vision to double vision or total loss of sight.

2. Eye pain
Pain from MS often occurs behind the eyes, particularly when the eyes move or when someone nods.

3. Shaking
Shaking or tremors may occur when the individual tries to do specific tasks with their hand or legs.

4. Muscular issues
MS causing a multitude of muscle issues, including muscle weakness, cramping, trouble walking, inability to quickly change movements spontaneous motions, immobility, rigidness, cognitive problems, clumsiness, spasms, and hyper-reflex.

5. Fatigue
The toll of MS affects the entire body with weakness or fatigue, dizziness, flushness from heat, imbalance, and vertigo.

6. Bladder issues
Patients may experience nighttime increase in urination, leaking bladder, continual desire to urinate, or retaining urine.

7. Sensory issues
MS may cause a prickly feeling in the body, unusual taste in the mouth, decreased touch sensation, or irritation from itching and burning skin.

8. Mood fluctuations
MS patients often experience emotional issues, such as depression, getting anxious or severe mood changes.

9. Speech issues
Patients with MS may suffer complications with speaking, such as slurring.

10. Other MS symptoms
Additionally MS may cause constipation, trouble swallowing, inability to think clearly, headache, leg heaviness, continuous eye twitching, lack of sleep, and tongue and face numbness.

11. Relapse MS treatment
A common way to treat MS relapse is with a large dose of potent corticosteroids for just under a week. It is given intravenously at a medical facility or home. This steroid reduces inflammation in the central nervous system and the harshness of a relapse. MS treatment options include:

• AVONEX: treats relapsing features of MS, including active secondary progressive disease, clinically Isolated Syndrome (CIS), and relapsing-remitting syndrome in adults. The effectiveness of this treatment on children with MS is not yet known.
• MAYZENT: is a modern, particular sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor model confirmed for the treatment of relapsing MS, including CIS.
• ZEPOSIA: has the same functions as Avonex and Mayzent. Zeposia conserves specific white blood cells in the lymph nodes, preventing them from becoming disruptive and ultimately reducing inflammatory harm to nerve cells.

The three drugs named above are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration(FDA) for treatment of relapse MS.