A Question For People With MS

[Steven Y Park, MD]

Dr. Park here from the sleep-breathing forum. I answered Laura's question about sleep and MS here:

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/show/756264

I'm taking an informal poll for people with known MS:

What's your favorite sleep position? Is it your back, side or stomach?

After I tally up the results, I'll give you the reason that I ask.

[Francyna]

At times I can't sleep on my stomache,my ribs become very sore.

[Lulu54]

Beachcomber, this popped up again on the front page for everyone yesterday.  Mindyou must have been searching for sleep and its relationship to MS.  

I'm glad you found the links useful.  It is one of those topics that don't get a lot of attention but needsto be looked at closer.

[beachcomber13]

Lulu, this one was on the front page for me yesterday, and I nearly commented on it, until I noticed the date. I wasn't searching for anything. Strange.

Thanks for the links, though. :)

[Lulu54]

Hi!  You may not realize that this is a very old post that was brought up to the front page again.  Many people will not read it because of its age.  There is a lot of good information in this conversation and I hope it helps anyone who has questions about their sleep and MS.

[Lulu54]

Mindyou,

I'm not sure how you found this old thread (from 2009) unless you were searching for information on sleep and MS.  I tried to read your posts and I think I have the gist of your message - but I don't understand how your computer inserted all those + signs to connect your words.

MS is not a muscle disorder.  It is a disease of the central nervous system.   You can learn more about this disease and its side effects through our health pages, the index of all the pages is listed at -

http://www.medhelp.org/health_pages/Multiple-Sclerosis/MS-Information-and-Resources-Index/show/22?cid=36


Sleep disorders and the lack of quality sleep are both linked to people with MS.  This was a cover story for the NMSS magazine in Winter 09 - it is such a big topic, yet often overlooked.  

You can access their article through

http://www.nationalmssociety.org/search-results/index.aspx?q=sleep&start=0&num=20


I hope something in this information will be useful to you.  Dr. Park is a highly respected sleep expert, and he has put a lot of thought and research into understanding the MS/Sleep connection.  Unfortunately he is no longer connect with MedHelp but you can find him by doing a search of his name if you want to ask him questions.

I hope we'll see you around and that you can figure out the problem with your computer.
Lulu

[vidalouise]

On either side. Sometimes it does mess with my back and arms, but its the only way I can sleep.