When the pain gets great enough, you get so desperate just to feel okay, just to feel right, says Burgard, who is nearing 10 months of sobriety after years of addiction and relapses.
For treatment, there is no cure for multiple sclerosis, but there are medications which are particularly effective for the relapsing-remitting type because they lessen the severity of relapses and make them happen less frequently.
There are also medications that act on nicotinic receptors like buproprion and partial nicotine receptor agonists like varenicline which help reduce withdrawal symptoms and prevent relapse.
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Researchers say they will continue their search for a single genetic cause for the most common form of multiple sclerosis, called “relapsing remitting MS.”