What are the best ways to fight MS fatigue?
MS fatigue can arise from several disease-related factors, so treating MS optimally is the first step. Specific exercise programs and certain medications can also help, says neurologist Saud Sadiq, MD, in this Ask the Experts video.
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Exercise helps fatigue-- measured exercises, which you can do under supervision of a physical therapist.
And also, there are certain medications that you can use for fatigue that are very effective. [MUSIC PLAYING]
MS fatigue is-- can arise from different-- a number of different factors, including sleep abnormalities,
diet, the way you exercise, depression, and then the disease itself. So you have to take a good history from the patient.
Make sure that they're sleeping well, they're not getting up five times to go to the bathroom, have bladder breaks. But once you determine that the sleep is OK,
the depression is not a factor, other causes of fatigue, like anemia, thyroid disorders have been ruled out,
because MS patients are prone to some of those conditions because of the medications they take, then you can address fatigue from an exercise point of view.
Exercise helps fatigue-- measured exercises, which you can do under the supervision of a physical therapist.
And also, there are certain medications that you can use for fatigue that are very effective, if it's purely,
you know, MS fatigue that every other factor has been support-- has been treated. Also, I think it's important to treat the disease optimally
and you optimize the disease-specific treatments. We have an approach-- a team approach to fatigue. And if you apply that, then it usually has good results.
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