Sexual issues with neurological and spinal disorders.

MS and Sex ** new series**

I have been asked to combine my two blogs. You may know me as your neighborhood friendly sex toy salesman. What most of you don't know about me, is that I also have Mutliple Sclerosis. Please allow me to give you a brief summary as to what MS is and how it effects your sexual being.

“Multiple Sclerosis is an autoimmune disease that effects your brain and spinal cord. The body’s own immune system attacks myelin, the fatty substance that surrounds and protects the nerve fibers in the central nervous system. The nerve fibers themselves can also be damaged. The damaged myelin forms scar tissue (sclerosis or lesions), which gives the disease its name. When any part of the myelin sheath or nerve fiber is damaged or destroyed, nerve impulses traveling to and from the brain and spinal cord are distorted or interrupted, producing the variety of symptoms that can occur”. The really interesting part of this disease is that these lesions do not effect the same exact spots on any given person, which means no two people have all of the same symptoms and no two cases are alike. This being said, there are over 300,000 different forms of this disease in the United States today, with and average of 200 new cases being diagnosed each week. The best way this was described to me: look at an electrical cord coming from a lamp. You see the plastic insulation on the outside? That is like your myelin. If you were to cut holes in that plastic and expose the wire, then you may have sparks shooting out of the holes, you may have no power coming at all. That is what happens to the signals your nerves send when you have MS. Sometimes the message is interrupted, sometimes it is shooting sparks.

Well, these little sparks and interruptions can disrupt your whole body and it can effect your sex life in some pretty negative ways. MS causes muscle spasms, numbness, fatigue, depression, erectile dysfunction, altered sensations(both a lack of sensation, and an increase in painful sensations), bladder problems, and did I mention depression? These are just a few of the symptoms of MS. I cannot list each and every symptom that MS causes because we would be here for days. Because I have MS, this does not mean that my life is over; and neither is my sex life. Though I have had to make some changes and bring in a few aids at times. Which is why I want so desperately to address the issues of the neurological, and psychological effects that MS has on your sex life and offer advice to overcome some of these obstacles.


I started on a mission to write this amazing article, and then I realized it was just entirely too long. So I have decided to address these issues one at a time. I am very excited about this new venture and hope you all can join me on this mission to inform and add suggestions. I would love some feedback on these articles and if you have any suggestions that I may have missed please feel free to comment. Also if you have any questions or issues that I may not have addressed, please feel free to email me privately or you may post a comment (warning, they are public).

I will do my best to answer your questions to the best of my ability. I am by no means an expert, but I do enjoy a good research challenge. And you will see a lot of the sexual issues addressed aren't necessarily MS specific.

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