Over the weekend I felt especially fatigued and tired. I have also been pain since Thursday so I went into the doctors today to see what was going on. She ran tests and it turns out I have a bladder infection. She put me on antibiotics and sent me on my way. I shared this with a friend and she told me that bladder infections are very common in people that have MS. I had no idea. I went home and started looking it up on the computer.
That was exactly what I found.
Bladder dysfunction in MS happens when nerve signals to the bladder and urinary sphincter (the muscles surrounding the opening to the bladder) are blocked or delayed because of lesions on the spinal cord. The dysfunction can be for two reasons: the bladder is spastic, so it isn’t holding the urine, or the bladder isn’t emptying all the way, because the sphincter is spastic (contracting when it is supposed to be relaxing to let out the urine, or vice versa). http://ms.about.com/od/signssymptoms/a/ms_bladder.htm
More research had me finding that this can leave a person feeling tired, exhausted or feel like their brain is in a fog. Exactly how I was feeling this weekend. It also said that this can lead to other flare-ups in people with MS, but this does not happen to the majority of people. Yeah!!
MS is a disease that I learn more and more about everyday. I will just keep rolling with the punches though!
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