Every MSer knows all about the most common symptoms of MS — walking difficulties, balance problems, bladder and bowel emergencies as well as the omnipresent fatigue. But what about the less common symptoms? How does the average MSer experience the less well-known symptoms of MS?
With a disease that affects every sufferer so differently, how can we even positively identify what a “less common” symptoms is? Is a less common symptom something that most MSers don’t experience, or is it something that lots of MSers experience less frequently?
There are also lots of symptoms that MSers ask their neurologists about only to be answered by a baffled shrug and a denial that the symptom described can possibly be related to MS at all.
Let’s look at the less common symptoms more closely and think about these questions.
Speech problems such as loss of volume (dysphonia) and slurring (dysarthria) occur