On their own, the symptoms of MS are difficult to live with. However, most patients also have to contend with some multiple sclerosis complication. An MS complication can result in distress, disability, or, in the worst of cases, death.
Multiple sclerosis is very much like other medical conditions in the sense that its consequences extend to complications that are not, in and of themselves, symptoms of the disease. The actual symptoms of multiple sclerosis are typically those that result directly from the demyelination and inflammation of neural tissue. These symptoms are directly attributable to the hindering of effective signal transmission between the nervous system and the various organs of the body. Thus, a multiple sclerosis patient can have such symptoms as fatigue, dizziness and vertigo, muscle weakness, incontinence, slow speech, double vision, partial blindness, spasticity, bowel difficulties, depression, cognitive impairment, and headaches.
