Does multiple sclerosis cause strokes

Answer 1

None of my research or reading since being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in 2001 indicates any connection between the MS and Strokes. MS does not cause strokes. The damage that is incurred in a person with MS is related to the Central Nervous System and damage that is done to the nerve pathways by the body's immune system attacking the insulation (myelin) covering the nerve, thus inhibiting the relay of messages down the that particular nerve pathway. The amount of the damage MS causes is dependent upon where in the brain the nerve insulation is damaged. Different body functions (vision, movement of limbs, speech, and so much more) are controlled by different nerves in different areas of the brain. Thus, bodily functions controlled by the damaged areas of the brain are the ones affected.

MS does not affect the vascular system, unless it is in an indirect way. Strokes are caused primarily by blood clots in the arteries and the blood vessels in the brain. When the blood clots, there is no blood flowing past that spot and that means oxygen is not getting carried to the "heart" of the brain where it is needed to carry out normal brain function. The amount of the damage the stroke causes is dependent upon where in the brain the blood clot occurred and the bodily functions that area of the brain controls.

Symptoms of MS and Strokes such as impaired vision, speech, mobility and cognition among many others may be similar. But, the causative factor is very different.

There is a new hypothesis which directly connects vascular abnormalities with "MS" symptoms, which by the way are exact duplicates of cerebrovascular disease. Check out CCSVI. You'll find the only explanation that makes any sense to me [ iIhave MS for 11 years]Do the reading yourself and make up your own mind. This isn't bee sting therapy or snake venom therapy. Treatment has proven that a majority of MSers have venous abnormalities [ the plaque in MS runs along venous pathways!] My first symptom was heightened sensitivity in both legs..accompanied by a blood pressure of 200/110...now that's stroke material. NO ONE correlated the stroke with the neuro symptoms. Just threw that put the window..ths "attack" came a few months after I had my varicose VEINS stripped in both legs. The paradigm may be shifting....