Is multiple sclerosis a serious disease?
“Multiple sclerosis is a disease with serious connotations. It is true that when this diagnosis is announced, either the patients do not know, or they immediately see the handicap, the cane and the wheelchair”, explains Jérôme de Sèze, professor of neurology at the Strasbourg University Hospital and specialist in autoimmune diseases and neuro-ophthalmology.
“That said, it is a disease whose prognosis has completely changed in 20 years thanks in particular to the arrival of new ultra-early and increasingly effective therapies, which improve the comfort of life”, continues the specialist.
Neurological disorders
The appearance of neurological disorders affecting different functions (motricity, sensitivity, vision, balance, coordination of movements, etc.) and evolving in initially regressive flare-ups is highly suggestive of multiple sclerosis. Doctors speak of inflammatory flare-ups “disseminated in time and in the central nervous system”.
But the symptoms can be much more deceptive, especially in the event of mood problems (depression or manic disorder), which can evoke a bipolar disease, whereas it is about plaques of demyelination affecting the limbic system, located in the deep brain.
