Multiple Sclerosis Case Studies

Multiple Sclerosis, also referred to as MS, affects more than 400,000 people in the United States and about 2.5 million people around the world. This is a disease that affects the nervous systems and disrupts the communication between the brain and the body. It can affect the immune system and manifest in other sicknesses. To show how one may encounter this disease, I’ll use as an example one man in general, whose name is Andrew Johnson. At the age of 32 he was diagnosed with Relapsing-Remitting and Progressive-Remitting MS. At the time of his diagnosis he had 22 plaques on his spine and 8 in his brain. A desire to understand the disease better, he did extensive research and discovered his symptoms could provide insight on how his environment could be a factor in him developing this disease.
Like most people suffering from this disease, Andrew became aware that he had MS when he went to the
Symptoms of this disorder can make sudden appearances with varying combinations of neurological symptoms and just as suddenly vanish for days, weeks or years in partial or complete remission. Or it can grab an even more merciless hold, progressing unabated toward its destructive destiny (Wasowicz para 6). Because Multiple Sclerosis can appear out of nowhere then quickly vanish, many physicians may have a hard time determining whether a person truly has Multiple Sclerosis for the simple fact that the most people will not take the warning sign of the symptoms seriously. Patients must undergo several test to confirm a diagnosis for Multiple Sclerosis. Andrew’s doctor felt that because Andrew did not take the warning sign seriously and suffered because of