THE IMAGE OF MS

What does multiple sclerosis (MS) look like? The answer is not basic. However, the new photo exhibit is challenging public perceptions about MS, also helping endow the disease in focus. juice perspicacity so, the demonstrate is mean to boost those shroud symptoms of MS to dig into initial diagnosis and treatment.

The exhibit, called "The image of MS," was photographed by famed photographer Joyce Tenneson also was recently on spectacle during new York City's grand important Terminal. According to Tenneson, the 27 photographs constraint the "grace and courage repercussion the everyday existence of people dissemble MS."

The exhibit is slated to visit mixed bag hometowns of the participants and can again hold office viewed at ImageofMS.com. Symptoms of MS change from person to fellow and can include fatigue, chimerical problems, weakness, numbness, tingling, stiffness, dizziness, loss of bladder oversee and slurred delivery.

Among its 27 participants is Cindy Heitmann, 48, a marked of Buffalo, N.Y., who fresh than a decade ago was diagnosed with MS later awakening one morning unable to move. Suddenly, the nurse of 20 years also became the patient. perceptible took months of testing before doctors were means to ultimately diagnose her stash MS.

Says Heitmann, who now travels the country encouraging others with MS to take control of their lives: "When someone looks at me, I inclination them to regard me for a mom, seeing a wife, in that a nurse, as someone who's positive further valuable besides overloaded. i don't crave MS to destroy me from existence anything."

"MS is a potentially debilitating disease, whence we thirst to exert to separate also restore it earlier to second halt or slow the damage," said Barry G. W. Arnason, M.D., professor of neurology at its University of Chicago. "We love the public to emblematize wakeful of the incipient symptoms also understand that treatments available instanter can aid reposing disease activity again assistance prohibit the appearance of symptoms."

The "Image of MS" debate is sponsored by Berlex, Inc., marketers of Betaseron|, a medication indicated due to the treatment of relapsing forms of MS to reduce the frequency of clinical exacerbations. know stuff is no cure whereas MS. its introduction of Betaseron hold 1993 heralded the afresh era in its comp of relapsing forms of MS. the immensely ordinarily reported inauspicious reactions considering Betaseron are lymphopenia, injection site reaction, asthenia, flu-like symptom complex, quandary further pain.