I think you need to research that more. I have MS & it can cause lots of functions to go hay wire. But never heard of that one.

My aspiration is a side effect of MS because it effects my swallowing. Food goes into lungs instead of stomach. Copaxone can cause cholesterol changes.

Catherine1128 -
"I feel it could also just be getting older and the normal things that begin to change in our bodies."

A lot of it is that!
What your doctor is trying to say is, "Don't Go To Hell In A Hand Basket".

Take care of yourself and live life.

An MS patient may be using a cane.
How many others without MS use a cane?

Glasses. That's a given to anyone along with high blood pressure, diabetes, aches and pains.

We are all feeling it!
We are just like anyone else!

I have MS.
Someone has cancer.
Another has diabetes.
Another was hit by a bus just stepping into the busy street.

We all have the aches and pains and medications. That's life!

I think that the major issue I have - MS could have been worse if dealt another deck of life's cards.

It really sucks that once the dr. says you have MS you think that is the worst and only thing that will happen to you. Unfortunately it's not. We have to deal with the MS monster as well as any other illness that everyone else gets. We have to take care of the whole body, not just the MS related parts.

Hi Catherine.... i have had high blood pressure for going on...lets see my oldest son is 22 now.. so he hit puberty at about 14 so that makes it...yep... got it..
8 years now...grin.. i am on both vasotec and norvasc for the blood pressure...and really don't expect to get off the medication until the 14 year old is through puberty...sigh...

I also have intractable epilepsy for which i take 3 anti epileptic meds.. and one back up med so i don't go into status..

then we add in the getting old...grin.. arthritis.. B-12 shot each month..glasses...etc...

I must say though in all seriousness that through all my Dr's and i have quite the line up... two Nero's.. a bone specialist on call.. etc..etc.. that no one has ever told me that high blood pressure can be attributed to the MS..
But by all means if you find any articles on this i would be interested in the links...if you would pass them along..

hugs
heather

Catherine, I get migraines and was also diagnosed recently with Restless Legs Syndrome, both of which my neurologist felt were related to having MS, because they both started at the same time as my first MS symptoms.

For many years before my dx's I was told Lupus then Autoimmune of unknown origien ??? Everytime I went in for a cold or a UTI it was pull out all the BIG guns it was very hard to convience them that I had 'just a sniffle' They saw the disease and not the person! I think if I broke a limb it would have been because of...

Now if I break something I can blame the MS...hehe

They do say PwMS are more prone to getting "autoimmune diseases". Although it is still controversial. But I have not heard of the ones you named being associated.

I agree that when you are diagnosed with MS doctors start assuming every problem you have is because you have MS. My daughter was diagnosed at 17. She is pregnant with her third child and her new OB is treating her as a high risk pregnancy just because she has ms! He is making her go see him every two weeks. Nearly all her ms symptoms go away when she is pregnant. She feels wonderful and she is very good at being pregnant. Her last labor was a whopping 20 minutes long! She pushed once! Her first labor was only about 2 hours. She has just been diagnosed with VonWillebrands Disease. I suspect her OB will just have her move into the office soon!

MKress, (lucky brat your daughter is!! lol, kidding :.) You know it's funny to see how other doctors like OB's get so excited and go overboard when they learn you have MS. It seems it is our job to kind of "set them straight" in a sense (in a nice way of course), because they lack the knowledge. But it is not their field, so why WOULD they know?

I think you should ask exactly WHY she has to go in every 2 weeks and see what she says. I would LOVE to know the answer. If it doesn't sound like a good reason to you, then you might want to tell her she is being overly cautious having her go in every 2 weeks! That ends up being a lot of co-pays!Seriously, unless she is high-risk for some other reasons, is she maybe?

Good luck

I have never hear that, but reality is we had a lot of things wrong before the MS monster came along. I came into this with High BP and some other conditions that have nothing to do with MS.