Signs You’re Relapsing
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Typical symptoms for a relapse could actually be any part of your brain not working right. But typical symptoms are visual loss, double vision, numbness of a limb, dizziness, difficulty with walking, weakness somewhere. And this would come on over two or three days.
Sometimes people wake up with most of the symptoms. It can't come on faster than two or three days. I would say it comes on over two or three days, lasts two or three weeks, and then gradually goes away. Often, it'll completely go away, especially if this is the beginning of MS. Sometimes not completely. Sometimes it'll 90% get better.
People are first having problems with MS. I think it's fairly obvious. I think when something's wrong, you know it's wrong. It's not some subtle point. I don't think it's some numbness that comes and goes. It's something that's obviously wrong, and it lasts for more than a couple of days too.
RANDALL TRUDELL
Relapsing MS is the most common form of multiple sclerosis. About 85% of people with MS at least start out with a relapsing form. A relapse is a problem that comes on fairly rapidly, not abruptly, not like a stroke, but rapidly over usually a couple of days. Typical symptoms for a relapse could actually be any part of your brain not working right. But typical symptoms are visual loss, double vision, numbness of a limb, dizziness, difficulty with walking, weakness somewhere. And this would come on over two or three days.
Sometimes people wake up with most of the symptoms. It can't come on faster than two or three days. I would say it comes on over two or three days, lasts two or three weeks, and then gradually goes away. Often, it'll completely go away, especially if this is the beginning of MS. Sometimes not completely. Sometimes it'll 90% get better.
People are first having problems with MS. I think it's fairly obvious. I think when something's wrong, you know it's wrong. It's not some subtle point. I don't think it's some numbness that comes and goes. It's something that's obviously wrong, and it lasts for more than a couple of days too.
