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Welcome to Stuff I Learned Yesterday. My name is Darrell Darnell, I’m excited to be hanging out all weekend with GSM hosts Troy Heinritz, Ruthie Rink, and Jeremy Hunt, and I believe that if you aren’t learning, you aren’t living. In today’s episode of Stuff I Learned Yesterday we’re taking a look back at an episode about a life impacted through the generosity of others..
Today fun fact is:
Today we’re talking about Multiple sclerosis (MS), so here are some (not) fun facts about this disease:
- Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurological disease, which means it affects your nerves. A substance called myelin wraps around your nerves to protect them. MS is the breakdown of myelin as your body attacks itself. The word “sclerosis” refers to the scar tissue or lesions that appear as the myelin is damaged. The unprotected nerves can’t function as they would with normal, healthy myelin.
- Multiple sclerosis is a chronic condition, because there is not yet a cure for the disease.
- The list of possible MS symptoms is long. It includes numbness and tingling, vision problems, balance and mobility issues, and slurred speech. There is no such thing as a “typical” symptom of MS because each person experiences the disease differently. The same type of symptoms may come and go frequently, or you may regain a lost function after a period of time. The unpredictable pattern of symptoms has to do with which nerves your immune system attacks at any given time.
- Most people who are seeking treatment for MS go through relapses and remissions. A relapse is when you experience a flare-up of symptoms. Relapses are also called “exacerbations.” Remission is a period in which you have no symptoms of the disease. A remission can last for weeks, months, or, in some cases, years. But remission does not mean you no longer have MS. Drug therapy (medication) can help put you into remission, but your immune system is still wired to attack myelin. Symptoms will likely return at some point.
- MS is labeled as a “silent disease” or “invisible disability.” Many people with MS look no different from a healthy person because some of the symptoms, such as blurred vision, sensory problems, and chronic pain, are not visible. Someone with MS may need accommodations even though they don’t have mobility issues and seem “fine.” Multiple sclerosis is also called a silent disease because even during remission the disease still progresses. This is sometimes referred to as the “silent progression” of MS.
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Today’s episode of Stuff I Learned Yesterday is a Friday Flashback. Friday Flashback episodes feature some of the most popular episodes of Stuff I Learned Yesterday. Today we go back to an episode that originally aired last December. The host of this episode is Karen Lindsay, one of our hosts here at GSM. Karen suffers with MS, and she shares some recent difficulties and blessings in her life at that time. It’s Stuff I Learned Yesterday Episode 378- How Karen Got Her Groove Back.
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