The sooner Multiple Sclerosis is diagnosed, the less pain patients have to go through. Early signs and symptoms of MS can manifest quickly or over a period of many years, but knowing what they are is the best way to know when it’s time to see a doctor. Getting diagnosed right away provides people with the necessary medications to manage symptoms, prevent the disease from progressing, and reduce the number of relapses.

A short list of typical early symptoms of MS contains sensations such as tingling and numbness of an extremity or the face, a loss of balance, seeing double or having blurred vision, or feeling weakness in the arms, legs, hands, or feet. Additional, yet less common, symptoms include; cognitive difficulties, slurred speech, lack of coordination, or a sudden occurrence of paralysis of a limb or limbs.

It is possible for any of these signs and symptoms of MS …